Already in 1978 was Ronneby a hotspot for waterjet cutting in Sweden and Jan Ryd began to work with and develop the waterjet technology. In 1992 Jan and his two sons Tony and Arne decided to offer commercial waterjet cutting services. They designed and built their own waterjet machine in a private garage and started the company Water Jet in 1993. 30 years later the Ryd family is majority owner of a successful business with over 900 waterjet machines installed all over the world.

Quality goes never out of style," they say. Sometimes quality seems to never go out of performance either. Recently, Water Jet Sweden renovated a 21-year-old waterjet cutting machine to almost new condition and made it ready for many more years of quality cutting.