150 Quiz Answers: because learning never stops!
Welcome to the 150 Year Quiz Answers page. Some came out as winners and some didn’t, but everyone is equally curious, nonetheless. So here are all the answers to the quiz questions you had answered recently. We share this with everyone as we strongly believe that learning never stops!
Please note: All questions and answers on this page are drafted in January 2023. The data, information and all the numbers are valid as of January 2023. For updated information visit the Group HUB page.
? Green hydrogen production is a step forward in reducing fossil fuels.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? We offer battery technology solutions for the transport industry.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? How many companies did the Atlas Copco Group acquire 2022?
🗷 None
🗷 20 companies
🗹 30 companies
? In 2022, The Atlas Copco Group had how many employees?
🗷 47583
🗷 42859
🗹 48951
? André Oscar Wallenberg was one of the founding fathers of Atlas Copco.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? Which three core values is our culture based on?
🗹 Commitment, interaction, innovation
🗷 Honesty, perseverance, leadership
🗷 People, planet, profit
? “Copco” in Atlas Copco stands for:
🗹 Compagnie Pneumatique Commerciale
🗷 Commercial Production Company
🗷 Cost Efficient Products Cooperation
? How many countries does Atlas Copco Group have customers in?
🗷 About 70
🗹 About 180
🗷 About 150
? What year and where was the Group founded?
🗹 1873 in Stockholm, Sweden
🗷 1952 in London, Great Britain
🗷 1924 in Hamburg, Germany
? Who was our first customer?
🗷The Indian Government
🗹 Swedish Rail
🗷 London's Underground Tube
? Which of our products can be found in the manufacturing of solar panels?
🗷 Compressors and Vacuum Pumps
🗷 Optical inspection systems
🗹 All of the above
? Atlas Copco endorses The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and directly contributes to how many of the 17 goals in total?
🗷 4 goals
🗷 12 goals
🗹 8 goals
? How many percent of the Group’s revenues are generated from service (spare parts, maintenance, repairs, consumables, accessories, and specialty rental)?
🗷 Approximately 15%
🗷 Approximately 25%
🗹 Approximately 35%
? In 1973, when we celebrated 100 years, how many employees did we have?
🗹 15473
🗷 25378
🗷 20532
? Who is currently chairman of the Board of Directors?
🗷 Staffan Bohman
🗷 Peter Wallenberg Jr
🗹 Hans Stråberg
? As an employee, a customer, a supplier or any other business partner, you are expected to follow something to ensure compliance with applicable laws and Atlas Copco’s own values and principles. What is it called?
🗷 Our vision and mission
🗷 Our company's Diversity and Inclusion policy
🗹 Our Code of Conduct
? Our mission is to:
🗹 achieve sustainable, profitable growth
🗷 achieve sustainable profit
🗷 achieve profitable growth
? In 2022, Atlas Copco made a record number of acquisitions, how many?
🗷 27
🗹 30
🗷 29
? What was the name of our company when it was first founded?
🗷 Atlas engineering
🗷 Copco Compressors
🗹 Atlas
? Once we manufactured small and dainty garden pavilions and bathhouses in wood.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? What year did the Atlas Copco Group launch a full range of VSD electric portable compressors?
🗹 2019
🗷 2021
🗷 2018
? When did we first start manufacturing in Sickla (the same place Group Center is still located today)?
🗹 1909
🗷 1929
🗷 1949
? Gustaf Ryd, a young engineer in the Group, visited which two countries in the late 1800s and brought back a caulking hammer and a riveting hammer. Which countries?
🗷 Germany and Austria
🗷 Poland and South Korea
🗹 Great Britain and USA
? When was the business area Vacuum Technique officially formed?
🗷 2016
🗹 2017
🗷 2014
? The Atlas Copco Group has set a goal to increase the number of female employees, what is the goal?
🗷 To have 40% female employees by 2040
🗹 To have 30% female employees by 2030
🗷 To have 25% female employees by 2025
? You can use low-pressure compressors to eliminate bacteria from water to purify and clean it.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? Besides the President and CEO, the Group Management consists of how many people?
🗷 5 people
🗹 8 people
🗷 10 people
? Why is Gustaf Ryd important in the Group's history?
🗹 He brought a pneumatic caulking hammer and riveting hammer to Sweden
🗷 He designed the first logo of Atlas Copco
🗷 He was the first customer of Atlas Copco
? Which of our Business Area Presidents have been employed the longest in the Group?
🗷 Henrik Elmin
🗹 Andrew Walker
🗷 Geert Follens
🗷 Vagner Rego
? We care about each other and...
🗹 …the world around us
🗷 …our neighboring countries
🗷 …those who are closest to our operations
? One of the following is a key performance indicator for the Group, which one?
🗹 To reduce CO2 emissions from operations and transport
🗷 To increase the production of vacuum pumps
🗷 To double the number of employees by 2025
? For which renewable energy source do we offer bolting solutions, tools as well as grinders?
🗹 Wind Power
🗷 Solar Power
🗷 Hydro Power
? How many divisional presidents do we have in the Group?
🗷 16 divisional presidents
🗷 20 divisional presidents
🗹 23 divisional presidents
? In how many countries does Atlas Copco Group have employees in?
🗷 More than 50
🗹 More than 70
🗷 More than 180
? What was the name of first illustrator of the Book about the Atlas Copco Group?
🗹 Göran Ek
🗷 Erik Björk
🗷 Björn Asp
? The Atlas Copco Group has NOT had one of the following:
🗷 A hockey team
🗷 A choir
🗹 A doggie day care center
? Complete the sentence: Every year we organize a Safety, ___ and Well-being Day
🗹 Health
🗷 Culture
🗷 Inclusion
? Within the Atlas Copco Group, our people are empowered to drive their own professional development.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? Which of the following, is NOT a business area in the Atlas Copco Group?
🗷 Power Technique
🗷 Compressor Technique
🗹 Mobility Technique
? In what year was the world’s first oil-free rotary screw stationary compressor introduced?
🗹 1967
🗷 2000
🗷 2020
? In what year was Edwards Group Ltd acquired?
🗷 2017
🗹 2014
🗷 2019
? In what year was Chicago Pneumatics acquired?
🗷 2000
🗹 1987
🗷 2015
? Atlas Copco manufactures critical equipment components in-house and co-operates with business partners for non-critical components.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? What came first to the United States?
🗹 An Atlas Copco office
🗷 Super Bowl
🗷 Starbucks
? Our vision is to become and remain First in Mind—First in Choice for whom?
🗷 Our customers and investors
🗷 Our employees and business partners
🗹 All our stakeholders
? Which are the different time horizons for our Group targets?
🗷 Three-year, over a business cycle, and by 2050 for the longer-term ambitions
🗹 Annual, three-year, over a business cycle, and by 2030 for the longer-term ambitions
🗷 Quarterly, over a business cycle, and ten years for the longer-term ambitions
? The Atlascopcosaurus has one additional name, with a link to our company. Which name?
🗹 Loadsi, after General Manager William Loads
🗷 Wallebergsoari, after the Wallenberg family
🗷 Compressori, after the Group’s biggest product segment
? In which country did the first Water for All project take place?
🗹 Peru
🗷 Colombia
🗷 Malawi
? Semiconductors are at the heart of modern technology, and the need just keeps on growing. These components are essential in computers, LED lights, screens, mobile phones and much more. What business area has the products that create the ultra-clean environment needed?
🗷 Power Technique
🗷 Compressor Technique
🗷 Industrial Technique
🗹 Vacuum Technique
? The Business Code of Practice has been renamed and is now called the Code of Conduct?
🗹 True
🗷 False
? What is another word that can be used for when products are returned, refurbished and resold?
🗹 Circularity
🗷 Reuse
🗷 Vintage
? When was the #NeverStopLearning initiative launched?
🗷 2022
🗷 2020
🗹 2021
? What is the name of our external online magazine published on our global website?
🗷 INNOVATING for a sustainable future
🗹 Industrial Ideas magazine
🗷 The better way magazine
? In which country does the Atlas Copco Group have most employees?
🗹 China
🗷 USA
🗷 Belgium
? How many of the Atlas Copco Group’s employees work in R&D?
🗹 Around 9%
🗷 Around 13%
🗷 Around 5%
? Within the Atlas Copco Group, the person closest to the problem or solution is given the freedom and authority to act.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? Are Atlas Copco shares listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange?
🗹 Yes
🗷 No
? The Atlascopcosaurus dinosaur was discovered in which country?
🗷 Sweden
🗷 Ethiopia
🗹 Australia
? When did the business area Construction Technique change its name to Power Technique?
🗷 2019
🗷 2015
🗹 2017
? What year did we venture into compressors?
🗷 1950
🗹 1899
🗷 2000
? Atlas Copco in the UK played a major role in the raising and preservation of the wreck of King Henry VIII’s flagship, The Mary Rose, now part of a dedicated museum in Portsmouth.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? What is the name of our main community engagement initiative that empowers people through access to clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene?
🗷 Water for Me
🗷 Water is Life
🗹 Water for All
? How many divisions do we have?
🗷 21
🗷 22
🗹 23
? When was the companies first desktop computer acquired?
🗷 Late 1960s
🗹 Late 1970s
🗷 Late 1980s
? "There is always a better way” is our...
🗷 Company policy
🗷 Future goal
🗹 Firm belief
? Complete the sentence: Every innovation starts with...
🗷An assignment
🗷 A patent
🗹 An idea
? The average age of a person working for the Atlas Copco Group is:
🗹 40
🗷 30
🗷 50
? Atlas Copco has had 12 President and CEOs throughout its 150 years of history:
🗹 True
🗷 False
? Group Center in Sickla, Stockholm, is sometimes called “the cake building”. How many office floors does the round building have?
🗷 5 office floors
🗹 7 office floors
🗷 9 office floors
? Through energy efficient products we can reduce our customers CO2 emissions.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? The emissions from when our products are being used represent how much of our total emissions?
🗹 More than 90%
🗷 Less than 50%
🗷 Less than 30%
? The largest share of our orders received comes from:
🗷 Americas
🗹 Asia
🗷 Europe
? The Atlas Copco Group has targets within 6 different areas. Relating to People, Financial, Products and which three other areas?
🗹 Safety and wellbeing, Environment, and Ethics
🗷 Safety and wellbeing, Water, and Community engagement
🗷 Safety and wellbeing, Sustainability, and Innovation
? What year was the last Atlas locomotive sold?
🗹 1917
🗷 1899
🗷 1956
? In what year was Desoutter Brothers Plc acquired?
🗹 1990
🗷 2000
🗷 2010
? Who was active in the Group for more than 60 years, and passed away in January 2015?
🗹 Dr. Peter Wallenberg
🗷 Marcus Wallenberg
🗷 K.A. Wallenberg
? Complete the sentence: We promote equal opportunities and strive to attract…
🗹 …a diverse workforce
🗷 …people of a certain age
🗷 …people with a certain background
? Working within the Atlas Copco Group, gives the opportunity to work in another country.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? Epiroc is now a fully independent company.
🗹 True
🗷 False
? How many Holding regions do we have?
🗷 14
🗹 16
🗷 12
? What is our global employee survey called?
🗷 Inside
🗹 Insight
🗷 Intel
? Which city is NOT the location for a divisional headquarter?
🗷 Sickla
🗹 Wuxi
🗷 Cologne
? Which business area has electric portable compressors in its product range?
🗹 Power Technique
🗷 Compressor Technique
🗷 Industrial Technique
🗷 Vacuum Technique
? Diesels Motorer was merged with New Atlas to form which company?
🗹 Atlas Diesel
🗷 Diesel Atlas
🗷 AD National Swedish Company
? How many brands does the Group consist of today?
🗷 Less than 30
🗹 More than 50
🗷 More than 100
? Identify the first non-Swede appointed President and CEO of the Atlas Copco Group.
🗷 Ronnie Leten
🗹 Giulio Mazzalupi
🗷 Tom Wachtmeister
? The Atlas Copco Group was engaged in safeguarding which historical landmark?
🗷 The Temple of Abu Simbel
🗷 Gustav II Adolf of Sweden's warship Vasa
🗹 Both
? How many distribution centers are there in the Group?
🗹 7
🗷 9
🗷 11
? Atlas Copco is a pioneer in rotary screw air compressors.
🗹 True
🗷 False
🗷 Not Sure
? The highest operating unit(s) in the Atlas Copco Group is…
🗷 …the Business Areas
🗹 …the Divisions
🗷 …Group Center
? Two of the Groups business areas have products that ensures that food being produced is not contaminated, which two?
🗷 Power Technique and Industrial Technique
🗷 Industrial Technique and Vacuum Technique
🗹 Compressor Technique and Vacuum Technique
? What does the Atlas Copco Group have, that is in line with the Paris Agreement?
🗷 Our Vision and Mission for the future
🗷 A blueprint for a more sustainable industry
🗹 Science Based Targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
? The Atlas Copco Group gives how much to match employee donations to Water for All?
🗷 Nothing
🗷 The same amount
🗹 Twice as much
? In which year did Mats Rahmström become the President and CEO of Atlas Copco?
🗹 2017
🗷 2018
🗷 2019
? Name the great invention of 1936 that could be operated by a single person:
🗹 The Swedish Method
🗷 The American Method
🗷 The Russian Method
? What was the first nutrunner to incorporate 100% digital communication, launched in 2005 called?
🗷 Sorten ST
🗷 Sensor TS
🗹 Tensor ST
? Which current Business Area President has won the Peter Wallenberg Marketing and Sales Award?
🗷 Geert Follens
🗹 Vagner Rego
🗷 Henrik Elmin
🗷 Andrew Walker
? Which of the following is our company's vision statement?
🗹 First in Mind - First in Choice
🗷 Committed to Excellence
🗷 Delivering Quality. Always.
? Complete the sentence: We believe that passionate people create ____ things.
🗷 Extraordinary
🗹 Exceptional
🗷 Essential
? The Group has an internal magazine, what is it called?
🗹 CONTACT Magazine
🗷 COMMITMENT Magazine
🗷 IDEAS Magazine
? We have a collection of policies, guidelines and practices that apply to Group-wide processes. What is it called?
🗷 The Way to Do Things
🗹 The Way We Do Things
🗷 The Way to Go
? Which of the following is NOT a Group award?
🗷 The Peter Wallenberg Marketing and Sales Award
🗷 The Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award
🗹 The Gunnar Brock Service Award
? Who was our company’s first CEO?
🗹 Edvard Fränckel
🗷 André Wallenberg
🗷 Fredrik Didro
? Who initiated the Gold Club in 1968, honoring employees with more than 25 years in the Group?
🗷 Marcus Wallenberg, Chair of Atlas Copco
🗹 Kurt-Allan Belfrage, President and CEO of Atlas Copco
🗷 Ronnie Leten, President and CEO of Atlas Copco
? Complete the sentence: The Giulio Mazzalupi award is presented each year…
🗷 to a product developer or designer, or a team, for outstanding contributions to the overall quality of an product
🗷 to reward excellent salesmanship as well as the development and field implementation of more advanced and customer adapted marketing sales methods
🗹 to reward a person or a team for significant contributions of improving and executing processes aimed at delivering products or services to customers in the most satisfying, sustainable, cost-effective and timely manner
? In what year did the Atlas Copco Group move to Sickla in Stockholm where Group Center is still located today?
🗷 1978
🗹 1927
🗷 1956
? When the Atlas Copco logo was first launched an illustrator was involved in creating the marketing material. She also worked together with which famous author?
🗷 J.R.R Tolkien
🗷 Lewis Carroll
🗹 Roald Dahl
? Who are Atlas Copco Group’s largest shareholders ?
🗹 Swedish investment company Investor AB
🗷 American investment company BlackRock
🗷 The Norwegian Oil Fund
? Machine vision systems are able to perform ultra-fast measuring and inspections down to the nano millimeter level. This is extra useful in production flows where surface quality is key, such as bumper inspection, glass, paper and electronic components. What business are has this technique:
🗷 Power Technique
🗷 Compressor Technique
🗹 Industrial Technique
🗷 Vacuum Technique
? A digital twin is what?
🗷 A social network
🗷A substitute for employees who are sick or on vacation
🗹 A digital representation of an intended or actual physical product, system, or process
? The Atlas Copco Group is actively working towards a year-on-year reduction of which natural element?
🗷 Sunlight
🗹 Water
🗷 Air
? Our online publication where we feature customer application stories, passionate people portraits and information on how our products and solutions come into play, is called what?
🗹 Industrial Ideas magazine
🗷 Passionate People Publication
🗷 Products and solutions weekly
? In what year did Atlas Diesel become Atlas Copco?
🗹 1956
🗷 1975
🗷 1999
? Two of our current Division Presidents have won the John Munck award for best innovative technical development, who?
🗹 Bert Derom and Dirk Beyts
🗷 Martin Tollner and Carl von Schantz
🗷 Wouter Ceulemans
? Complete the sentence: We define leadership as the ability to…
🗹…create lasting results
🗷…develop new business models
🗷…always be the best
? When did our company terminate the diesel manufacturing?
🗹 1948
🗷 1952
🗷 1943
? Chicago Pneumatic is part of which business area?
🗷 Industrial Technique
🗷 Power Technique
🗹 Both
? Which position is NOT listed as a job to apply to on our Internal Job Market?
🗹 President and CEO
🗷 Chief Legal Officer
🗷 Business Area President
? When did we officially establish in China?
🗷 2001
🗷 1956
🗹 1993
? Complete the sentence: Our organization is based on…
🗹 the principle of decentralized responsibilities and authorities
🗷 centralized decision making
🗷 strong opinions
? For global recognition of Swedish trade and industry in general, and for our company in particular, which family has been of great importance?
🗷 The Wehtje Family
🗹 The Wallenberg family
🗷 The Rockefeller family
? We describe our operational set-up as…
🗷 Robust and resistant
🗹 Agile and resilient
🗷 Safe and sound
? Leybold is part of which business area?
🗹 Vacuum Technique
🗷 Power Technique
🗷 Compressor Technique
? The BeaconMedeas brand is known for…
🗷 Pneumatic tools
🗷 Automobile engineering
🗹 Medical gas solutions
? How many different names have our company had since 1873?
🗷 2 names
🗷 1 name
🗹 4 names
? How many Chairs of our Board of Directors have we had during our history?
🗹 11
🗷 23
🗷 7
? The Atlas Copco Group aims to reduce its own emissions to what percentage by the year 2030, compared to the 2019 baseline?
🗹 46%
🗷 100%
🗷 25%
? One of the Atlas Copco Group’s product companies in Germany ships products by rail to its counterpart in which country?
🗹 China
🗷 Sweden
🗷 India
? The biggest Business Area in the Group (in terms of revenues) is:
🗷 Vacuum Technique
🗹 Compressor Technique
🗷 Industrial Technique
? Which division is the newest in the Group?
🗷 Power and Flow
🗷 Semiconductor Chamber Solutions
🗹 Machine Vision Solutions
? Who started the community engagement initiative called 'Water for All' in 1984?
🗹 Atlas Copco Employees
🗷 The Swedish Government
🗷 Compressor Technique Business Area
? Why was Atlas Diesel engines marketed under the name Polar in the beginning of the 20th century?
🗷 They came from cold Sweden
🗹 They were used in the first ever expedition that reached the South Pole
🗷 They had a Polar bear-sticker on them
? Which of the following energy sources is NOT considered renewable?
🗹 Coal
🗷 Solar
🗷 Wind
? Industrial development is often described in terms of revolutions. Which industrial revolution are we part of now?
🗷 The second
🗹 The fourth
🗷 The third
? Complete the sentence: At the Atlas Copco Group, we are committed to being part of the ______ for a better tomorrow.
🗹 solution
🗷 industry
🗷 transformation
? We often talk about our ‘strategic pillars for growth’. How many such pillars do we have?
🗷 3 pillars
🗹 5 pillars
🗷 10 pillars
? At the Atlas Copco Group we have a set of cultural beliefs that guides us in our daily work. Which of these expressions is NOT part of how we act and behave:
🗷 We believe in equal opportunities
🗷 We do business in an ethical way
🗹 The manager is in charge of your career
? The elevators in which famous building was assembled with our tools?
🗷 Empire State Building
🗷 Burj Khalifa
🗹 Eifel Tower
? Where do you find all our e-learnings and training material?
🗷 Educate
🗷 Grow
🗹 LearningLink
? In 2022 we organized a global event on November 30. What was it called?
🗹 Global Climate Awareness Event
🗷 Global Employer Branding Event
🗷 Global Innovation Event
? Complete the sentence: We develop industrial ideas that…
🗹…empower our customers and drive our society forward
🗷…enable us to complete all our sustainability goals at once
🗷 …create better societies
? How many service divisions do we have?
🗹 5
🗷 4
🗷 3
? Which renewable oil can be is used to run (some) portable compressors?
🗹 Hydrotreated vegetable oil
🗷 Olive oil
🗷 Diesel oil
? The Atlas Copco Group aims to reduce emissions from its own operations in line with keeping the global temperature rise below what?
🗹 1.5 degrees
🗷 5 degrees
🗷 3 degrees
? Which famous bridge was built with the help of our tools?
🗷 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
🗹 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York
🗷 The Tower Bridge in London
? What is the Atlas Copco Group’s corporate message?
🗷 Home of Great Ideas
🗹 Home of Industrial Ideas
🗷 Home of Sustainable Innovation
? Complete the sentence: The Atlas Copco Group has a ____ culture.
🗷 sporty
🗷 Swedish
🗹 feedback
? What is our misconduct reporting system called?
🗷 Hotline
🗹 SpeakUp
🗷 H.E.L.P.
? What is the women’s business network called in the Atlas Copco Group?
🗹 The Pleiades
🗷 FemTech
🗷 Atlascopcoism
? Which of the following is NOT a Group function based in Stockholm?
🗹 Group Service
🗷 Group Legal
🗷 Group Internal Audit