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ESBE AB (originally Skogsfors Bruk) is a privately owned Swedish industrial company headquartered in Reftele in Småland. The company was founded in 1906 by Johan August Skogsfors and is still today 80 per cent owned by the third and fourth generation of the Skogsfors family. ESBE is a manufacturer of solutions for heating and cooling control in hydronic systems.

History
The factory originally made cultivators and seed sowing machines. Johan August Skogsfors also built a power station that provided electricity and electric light – the first of its kind in Reftele. In the mid-1930s, the product range was broadened to include water pumps, hydrophores and shunt valves.

In 1939 Johan August Skogsfors sold the factory to KF (Cooperative Association), which replaced the production of agricultural equipment to production of boilers. The company eventually merged into Parca-Norrahammar.

KF was not interested in retaining the factory's ancillary activities of shunt valves and plumbing. These activities therefore remained with the Skogsfors family. The founder's sons Sigurd and Göte were given responsibility for these. Göte had in 1939 received a patent for a four-way shunt valve.

By 1965, exports accounted for more than 50 per cent of ESBE's sales. In 1967 Göte’s son Mats became Managing Director of ESBE. He hired the industrial designer Carl-Arne Breger. In the mid-1970s, ESBE's first actuators and thermostatic valves were launched on the market. In the late 1990s, ESBE established itself in Europe through subsidiaries in Germany and France and increased the number of dealers in different countries. At the turn of the millennium in 2000, Mats' son Johan Skogsfors took over as Managing Director and led the company until 2012, when the first external Managing Director was hired.

Managing Directors
ESBE has had the following managing directors

•	1906-1939 Johan August Skogsfors

•	1939-1967 Göte Skogsfors

•	1967-2000 Mats Skogsfors

•	2000-2012 Johan Skogsfors

•	2012-2015 Karsten Pillukeit

•	2016- Peter Cerny