Norske Skog
Norwegian pulp and paper company
Norske Skog ASA, formerly Norske Skogindustrier ASA, which translates as Norwegian Forest Industries, is a Norwegian pulp and paper company established in The company has long been one of the world's leading manufacturers of newsprint and magazine paper. Due to a declining market for publication paper, the company has increasingly focused on other uses of timber and recycled paper, such as packaging.[1] The company is headquartered in Norway and has factories in five countries[2] and an annual production of approximately 2 million tonnes of paper ().
History
[edit]Norske Skog started in with the construction of a paper mill at Skogn in Norway, with the plant opening in and a second paper machine added in Half the capital for the project was issued by the Norwegian Forest Owners Association. In Norske Skog started a cooperation with Follum Fabrikker in Hønefoss. By Norske Skog had acquired Follum Fabrikker and Union in Skien as well as Saugbrugsforeningen in Halden. With this Norske Skog controlled all the pulp and paper mills in Norway.
The first international acquisition came in with Norske Skog G
Recycling
Recovered paper is an important fibre source for Norske Skog. Recycled fibre made up 30% of the raw materials used in our products.
Some customers want paper based entirely on recovered paper. However, a value chain based only on recovered paper is not sustainable. About one third of the paper is lost in the recovered paper cycle. Factors such as consumer awareness, waste disposal and collection systems and alternative uses for used paper influence its collection rate. The structure and strength of the fibres of paper degrade with successive use. Recovered paper fibres that are no longer suitable for paper making are rejected in our mill pulping processes and are generally used as a source of renewable energy.
To make the recovered paper value chain sustainable, fresh fibre from forests, plantations or sawmill by-products must be added.
On a tonnage basis, our largest consumption of recovered paper takes place in continental Europe. The fibre source used at the different Norske Skog mills depends upon availability and economic considerations. The minimization of transport distances and costs is an increasingly important economic and environmental considera
Norske Skog Skogn
Pulp and paper mill in Levanger, Norway
63°42′40″N11°9′40″E / °N °E / ;
Norske Skog Skogn AS is a pulp mill and paper mill situated in Levanger Municipality, Norway, which produces newsprint. Situated on the Fiborgtangen peninsula in Skogn, the mill has three paper machines with a total annual capacity of , tonnes. Pulp is produced both from virgin fibers at an on-site thermomechanical pulp (TMP) mill and from recycled paper at a deinking (DIP) mill. Part of Norske Skog, it is the sole remaining newsprint mill in Norway.
Proposals for a mill came from the Norwegian Forest Owners Association, who wanted a major industrial facility to buy lumber in Central Norway. Originally named Nordenfjelske Treforedling AS, the company was incorporated on 1 March Forest owner associations held a majority of the shares and the mill was long considered part of the agricultural cooperatives. The first lumber was delivered on 1 March and the first paper machine, PM1, became operation on 15 September. PM2 started running on 14 November After buying Van Severen and Ranheim Papirfabrikk, the company took the name Norske Skog in and gradually expan
Faktaboks
- Offisielt namn
- NORSKE SKOG ASA
- Også kjend som
Norske Skogindustrier ASA
- Organisasjonstype
- Allmennaksjeselskap
- Forretningsadresse
- Oslo
- Dagleg leiar
- Geir Olav Drangsland
- Styreleiar
- Arvid Grundekjøn
Norske Skogindustrier er eit norsk treforedlingskonsern grunnlagt i som Nordenfjelske Treforedling. Norske Skog gjekk konkurs i , og i mai vart selskapet kjøpt av investeringsselskapet Oceanwood. I oktober vart Norske Skog notert på Oslo børs med ein eigenkapitalverdi på 3,14 milliardar kroner.
Norske Skog var ein av dei største produsentane i verda av avis- og magasinpapir med ein totalproduksjon i på 4 millionar tonn papir. Konsernet hadde på det meste 13 fabrikkar i 10 land over heile verda med ein samla produksjonskapsitet på 4,3 millionar tonn, av dette vel 70 % i Europa.
Konsernet hadde ei omsetning på over 1,3 milliardar kroner i , med rundt tilsette (). Hovudkontoret låg i Bærum (Oksenøya på Fornebu).
Verksemd
Fabrikkane blir drivne vidare etter konkursen. Dei ligg i Noreg, Frankrike (Golbey), Tyskland (Duisburg), Nederland (Renkum), Austerrike (Bruck an der Mur), Brasil (Jaguariaiva), Chile (ved munn
.