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Erik Jølberg can look back on 54 years as CO of TESS, with a tremendous growth curve. At 80 years old and with 60 years in the hose business, he is still fiercely ambitious on behalf of his life’s work. Visionary, controversial, engaging, fascinating, curious, creative, impulsive, artistic, loyal, hardworking, detail-oriented, entrepreneur, business leader, and owner. TESS is his life, and his life is TESS. Jølberg has passed retirement age by a wide margin but has no plans to scale back for that reason. On the contrary, he still maintains a pace that very few 80-year-olds can enjoy. Do you get energy from working? “Yes, when you succeed in what you do, it’s a pleasure to be able to work. I also think it’s a bit amusing when I take two steps at a time and pass the youth at the stairs at the TESS headquarters,” says Jølberg. Another thing that is going upwards is the results at TESS. Last year, the company had a turnover of 3.4 billion Norwegian kroner, and can point to a growth of 300 million

We are very pleased to announce the opening of two additional Tubes International branches. These new locations on the Tubes sales map are in Koszalin (Poland) and Bratislava (Slovakia). The Koszalin branch is a building with an area of 308m². It includes a spacious sales floor, a complete workshop, and warehouse facilities. There, we can fulfill all of our customer’s needs, including sales of goods and services concerning industrial, pneumatic, and hydraulic hoses and fittings. The Koszalin branch is the fourth location of Tubes International in Pomerania, along with Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Szczecin. The Bratislava branch includes a comfortable sales area, warehouse, and workshop. At this newly opened branch, we can provide full sales service to existing and new customers proficiently and effectively. Being locally present, we can serve the customers more efficiently in terms of the availability of goods in stock and the production of industrial hose assemblies with an inner diameter of up to 51mm. The Bratislava branch is the second branch in Slovakia.