Environment-friendly production of materials
Elkem is one of the world’s leading companies for environment-friendly production of materials. Its main products are silicon, solar grade silicon, special alloys for the foundry industry, microsilica, carbon and energy. Elkem is making a big commitment to the solar power industry. Operating revenues in 2009 are NOK 7,4 billion. Elkem has approx 2,500 employees (per 2009-12-31).
(2010-07-21)
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(2010-05-20)
 | | On 19 May 2010, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Riis-Johansen, visited Elkem Solar. The Minister was received by CEO, Helge Aasen and plant manager Geir Ausland, who showed him around the solar grade silicon production facility.
At the department for solidification and post treatment, Riis-Johansen was shown a new factory which is the largest land-based industrial facility in many years.
Elkem Solar has developed an entirely new technology which uses only a fourth of the energy that traditional technologies are using.
Helge Aasen pointed out to the Minister that Norwegian industry can bring about a quantum leap in terms of environmental technology which is of major global significance for global emissions and reduced energy use.
ENTHUSIASTIC Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Riis-Johansen (photo: Anders Martinsen) |
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(2010-01-26)
Elkem donates NOK 100 000 to relief work in Haiti. The money goes to Strømmestiftelsen, a Norwegian humanitarian organisation that has a network of collaberating partners in Haiti.
"We are all affected by the situation in Haiti and the many tragic stories that have been told in the media. Every krone we give goes to the important relief efforts that are now going on in Haiti", says CEO Helge Aasen.