Norsk Hydro's production facilities at Rjukan, Tinn
Norsk Hydro Rjukan
Company type
Subsidiary
Founded
13 April 1907
Defunct
1 July 1991
Fate
Closed
Headquarters
Rjukan, Norway
Products
Fertilizer
Number of employees
1,760
Parent
Norsk Hydro
Norsk Hydro Rjukan is an industrial facility operated by Norsk Hydro at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway, from 1911 to 1991. The plant manufactured chemicals related to the production of fertilizer, initially potassium nitrate from arc-produced nitric acid and later ammonia, hydrogen, and heavy water. The location was chosen for its vicinity to hydroelectric power plants built in the Måna river.
30 million tonnes of products, equivalent of 1.5 million wagon loads, were produced in Rjukan.[1] After the closing, parts of the plants and the railway have been preserved.
NorskHydroRjukan is an industrial facility operated by NorskHydro at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway, from 1911 to 1991. The plant manufactured chemicals related...
also Rjukan Falls was developed and its power harnessed, in the process establishing the city of Rjukan, establishing the plant NorskHydroRjukan. Hydro's...
industrial developments by NorskHydro in the 1910s and 1920s. It got its name from the Rjukan Falls west of the town. At its peak, Rjukan was a significant industrial...
between Mæl and Rjukan in Telemark county. The railway's main purpose was to transport chemicals from NorskHydro's plant at Rjukan to the port at Skien...
Tinnoset Line and Rjukan Line. Transport included both railway cars, carrying primarily fertilizer, potassium nitrate and ammonia from NorskHydro, as well as...
Hydro Transport AS was a railway- and shipping company responsible for the transport of chemicals from NorskHydroRjukan. A subsidiary of Norsk Hydro...
was a Norwegian engineer and industrialist. He was the founder of both NorskHydro and Elkem. Eyde was born in Arendal in Aust-Agder, Norway. He was a son...
were harnessed by the Vemork hydro-electrical power plant to produce power for the saltpetre production at a nearby NorskHydro factory. The waterfall is...
power plant outside the town of Rjukan in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The plant was built by NorskHydro and opened in 1911, its main purpose...
Sørland Line and the Vestfold Line; allowing NorskHydro to transport fertilizer from their plant at Rjukan to the port in Skien. Since 1991 only passenger...
the preservation of industrial society created by NorskHydro when they established themselves in Rjukan in 1907. The museum is an anchor point on the European...
part of the transport chain used to transport fertilizer from NorskHydro's factory in Rjukan to the port in Skien. The railway opened in 1909 and was closed...
ISBN 9781439126226. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. NorskHydro's official site on Rjukan during the war Interview with Joachim Rønneberg Operation...
Såheim Power Station in Rjukan (1916), Tyssedal Power Station (1906), while the administration building for NorskHydro in Rjukan is built in jugendstil...
Jomar Brun, the head of NorskHydroRjukan, created a plan for industrial production of heavy water in Norway. As NorskHydro were already producing ammonia...
Tinn that connected the Rjukan Line with the Tinnoset Line. This system was used by NorskHydro to transport chemicals from Rjukan to the port in Skien....
its first product. Between 1906 and 1919 NorskHydro built two hydroelectric power plants in Notodden and Rjukan. The company sent its first shipment to...
aerial tramway in Northern Europe. It was built in 1928 as a gift from NorskHydro. The Hardangervidda National Park center is located at the lake Møsvatn...
Norwegian resisters organised and carried out the famous raid on the NorskHydroRjukan plant at Vemork. The plant was known to be producing heavy water,...
Telemark Engineering College in Porsgrunn. Skinnarland worked at the NorskHydro plant at the Vemork hydroelectric plant, and decided to escape to the...
worked for NorskHydro from 1929. He was central in the planning and running of the world's first industrial heavy water plant at NorskHydroRjukan. During...
tramway in Rjukan, Norway, and was the first of its kind in Northern Europe. It was built in 1928 by Bleichert as a gift from NorskHydro to the people...
conducted his own architectural practice at Rjukan. He also acted as a staff architect for NorskHydro in Rjukan, returning to his own practice in Oslo in...
large stockpile which was produced by the Vemork NorskHydro chemical plant near the village of Rjukan, but the Norwegian government would not sell more...