Swedish Championships in Musical Fireworks
The competition, Swedish Fireworks Championships, was started in 1993 by the municipality of Norrköping and Leif Hallberg after an idea from the then Pyroproffs AB and Kim Mårtensen. The board of the Swedish Fireworks Championships in the first year included Leif Hallberg, Bert Ferin, Jonas Grahn and Kim Mårtensen. Jonas Grahn was elected to safety manager for the competition but also took part with his own fireworks team in the first year.
In 1998 Reine Adolfsson took over as safety manager and Reine has worked for Hansson Norabel and Smålands Krutbruk. Today Reine works for FOI, previously FOA (the Defence Research Agency) in Grindsjön.
In 2001 the competition was changed to the Swedish Championships in Musical Fireworks so that today all teams also display to music of one’s personal choice. Each team may have fireworks with a net weight of 140—170 kg and there is no time limit for the fireworks since the competition was changed to Musical Fireworks.
The jury consists of experts within art, drama and pictures but from 2002 there is also a public jury of 50 people and every evening the competitions follow the expert jury precisely. The competition is decided at the Motala river in central Norrköping with an extensive safety organization due to a very complicated firing site.
- Smålands Krutbruk was Swedish Champion in 1997.
Swedish Fireworks Championships For Students
The very next year after the first competition, the Swedish Fireworks Championships, was held the then union chairman of Jönköping’s student union, Henrik Tällberg and his colleague Joakim Martinsson took the first step towards the start of a student competition in fireworks display. Jonas Grahn was asked if he would like to participate in some way and he of course accepted.
The first competition was held in 1994 and the cream of Jönköping’s public sat in the competition jury. At the same time a pyrotechnical committee was formed with the name KRUT and consisted of 100 % students. The student union functions as representative for Småland’s Krutbruk and the union also receives certain financial help from Krutbruket.
KRUT fires both large and small outdoor and indoor fireworks. On this page you can also click in on KRUT’s home page.
- KRUT's home page: www.krut.nu
