Elkem Norway

Facts:

• 3 reduction furnaces, relatively modest size and allow the plant’s flexibility to custom-make products to suit customer’s needs.
• 155 employees
• “Most employees in Bjølvefossen have a long history with us and a long experience and work here for more than 10 – 30 years.”
• Production of 120 grades of nodularisers and speciality FeSi products
• Annual capacity of 60.000 mt
• Its name comes from the very lifeblood of the melting works, namely the waterfalls of the Bjølvo watercourse.

Facts:

Inoculants and special FeSi:

• 2 reduction furnaces
• 94 employees
• Annual capacity of 32.000 mt

Silicon and Microsilica:

• 1 reduction furnace and proprietary chemical purification facility
• 101 employees
• Annual capacity of 40.000 mt Silgrain®

Facts:

• 1 Elkem-employee, 5 contractor employees
• Production capacity apprx. 200 t/hr
• Loading capacity apprx. 500 t/hr.

Facts:

• 2 FeSi furnaces
• 130 employees
• Production of 9 grades of speciality and standard ferrosilicon
• Annual capacity of 90.000 mt of FeSi and 23.000 mt of Elkem Microsilica®

Facts:

• 195 employees
• 3 furnaces and 1 energy recovery plant
• Annual capacity of 128.000 mt, and energy recovery of 260 GWh
• The silicon capacity is 80.000 

Facts:

• Annual capacity of 1.000.000 mt/year
• 50 employees (25 Elkem/25 contractor) Produces 5 different qualities of quartzite (6045, 7045, 6010, 7010, 5005)
• “The largest quartzite mine in the world”
• Supplying almost all the silicon smelters in Norway

Facts:

• 150 employees
• 2 furnaces and 1 energy recovery plant
• Annual capacity of 75 000 mt, and energy recovery of 170 GWh
• The silicon capacity is 50.000