Contact
Please find contact details below for our various business units. If you would like to know more about our operations, or our service offering, you are welcome to get in touch.
Do you wish to send a general inquiry please use the contact form below or send an email to info@solvina.com.
Sweden

Sven Granfors
Managing Director Solvina AB
Phone: +46 (0)31-709 63 18
Mobile: +46 (0)708-72 10 86
sven.granfors@solvina.com
“My passion and drive comes from seeing all the successful results we can accomplish; the positive environmental impacts, large customer savings, better electricity availability for the people, development of engineers and growth of the company. The extremely competent employees, high level of engineering and “can do” attitude is what makes Solvina so special.”
Sven has long practical experience as power system specialist and is highly business oriented. He has developed many of the methods and technologies used in Solvina’s power plant testing services. Sven enjoys building long term relationships with employees and customers world wide. All though his current position, Managing Director of Solvina International AB, he thrives on engaging in all parts of the projects; management, business development, sales, project management and engineering.
Background/experience/education
– Master of Science in electrical engineering from Chalmers University and University of Stuttgart.
– Studies and work in Iceland.
– Power system and power plant dynamics specialist at Solvina AB, 2001-2014.
– Business unit manager at Solvina AB, 2014-2018.
– Business development mangager at Minesto (Tidal power plant developer) 2018-2019.
– Managing director at Solvina International AB.

Björn Ivarsson
Business Unit Manager Engineering Management Solvina AB
Phone: +46 (0)31-709 63 07
Mobile: +46 (0)703-59 88 19
bjorn.ivarsson@solvina.com
“The best thing about working at Solvina is the variation in assignments and customers and to apply my experiences adapted to other industries and businesses. The biggest challenge is to meet the customer in their “reality” and adapt solutions according to their needs – to successfully implement changes.“
Björn has previous experience from the product development industry and the nuclear power industry with systems design, management, project management and as a client ordering projects. Björn has been in the corresponding position as Solvina’s customers, which makes him unique.
Background/experience/education
– MSc Electrical Engineering.
– Björn worked for six years at Ericsson with mobile telephony; first with signal processing and then as system design responsible for development of base stations for a customer in Japan. Björn then changed path to nuclear power and worked as a project manager at Ringhals. He then became technical support manager for Ringhals 2 with responsibility for development, maintenance, licensing, plant documentation etc. After that he worked as head of an internal consulting department at Vattenfall focusing on nuclear safety and licensing. Between October 2014 and December 2016, he worked in Abu Dhabi for a company building four new nuclear power plants as a licensing manager for the operating organization. The work involved preparations of the organization for operations (competence, resources, working methods and processes, etc.) and contributing to the project’s licensing work.
– Employed at Solvina since January 2017.

Joakim Hiramsson
Business Unit Manager Dynamics and Control Solvina AB
Phone: +46 (0)31-709 63 17
Mobile: +46 (0)708-72 10 87
joakim.hiramsson@solvina.com
“The best thing about working at Solvina is hearing about the value our highly competent consultants provide to our customers. I am very confident in the competence of my responsibility-taking colleagues. I am fully commited to the continued development of the team, the company, and our customers. Toghether we will reach success through development, cooperation, and communication.”
Joakim started at Solvina as a thesis worker in 2017. Joakim has experience both as technical consultant and as project manager. His technical field is power system studies on power plant level. His work is focused on areas such as model development and validation; static calculations and dynamic simulations; and analysis of stability and control performance.
Backgound/experience/education
– Power Systems Engineer, Solvina AB (2017 – )
– BSc Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.
– MSc Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology.
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