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Hafslund Group

Odda Smelteverk never used the process itself, however, but licenced it to I.G. Farben, Staatsmijneh of the Netherlands, as well as to Norsk Hydro. Odda stayed in its oldest businesses, that of producing calcium carbide and cyanamide. Neither did Odda s owner, the Hafslund group, use the Odda process. In 1937 it sold Odda Smelteverk along with the Odda process to the British Oxygen Company. [Pg.240]

The aim of this paper is to understand the fate of the Odda process, and explain why it was invented at but never used by Odda Smelteverk and the Hafslund group. To achieve this, the paper is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the Hafslund group s strategic intent with respect to Odda Smelteverk and the Odda process. The second part looks into the Odda process itself, while the third part discusses why Hafslund did not exploit the Odda process. [Pg.240]

Bryn, op. cit., p. 24f. After a period of chaos among the carbide producers in Europe, 19 European carbide firms formed an international syndicate early in 1924. The Hafslund group, which was originally responsible for one third of the syndicate s total production, was actively involved in its formation, and Iver Hoy became the syndicate s vice-president. This syndicate, modified several times, operated until World War II broke out. [Pg.242]

The phosphoric acid invention was also an outcome of the Hafslund Group s own strategy. In 1922 - before starting Odda Smelteverk - Hafslund considered the possibility that the Odda factory might produce new fertilisers that contained both nitrogen and phosphate, based on French processes. Hafslund was thus part of a... [Pg.245]

American Cyanamid Company and Norsk Hydro.And so Odda and its important process was sold out of Hafslund. And even more importantly, the independent role of the large industrial organization of the Hafslund group disappeared. [Pg.253]

The rise and fall of the Hafslund group seems to be the result of two processes. First, the Hafslund group was built by Norwegian engineers in a system of cooperative... [Pg.254]

The group that bought Hafslund in 1916 was dominated by the Kiaer-Fearnley trust, ... [Pg.248]


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