Karl Fredrik Goransson
Karl Fredrik Goransson ( -1960) of Sandvik Steel Works
1960 Obituary [1]
We learn with regret of the death, on June 13, of Karl Fredrik Goransson, chairman of the Board of Directors of Sandvik Steel Works for the period 1939-59.
Mr. Goransson was the grandson, and only surviving direct male descendant, of G. F. Goransson, the first man to exploit successfully on a commercial basis the Bessemer process of steelmaking. Mr. Goransson was director of Jernkontoret (Swedish Ironmasters' Association), 1928-49; chairman of the Swedish Federation of Industries, 1939-42; President of the Swedish Academy of Science, 1948-49, and a Member of the Scientific Society of Upsala.