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A Quest for Diversification? Norsk Hydro, IG Farben, and the German Light Metal Programme

In: Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe

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  • Ketil Gjølme Andersen
  • Anette H. Storeide

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While people on the southern coast of Norway were trying to enjoy the third summer of the German occupation the best they could, new factories for light metals drew close to completion at the Herøya peninsula a few kilometers outside of Porsgrunn town. Together with its German partners, Norsk Hydro, a world leading fertilizer producer, worked purposefully to finish production facilities for aluminium, alumina (aluminium oxide) and magnesium. The endeavour was organized within the framework of an independent Norwegian company called Nordisk Lettmetall, founded in Oslo in 1941. The company’s shares were equally distributed between Hydro, IG Farben and a company representing the German Luftwaffe, Nordag.

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  • Ketil Gjølme Andersen & Anette H. Storeide, 2016. "A Quest for Diversification? Norsk Hydro, IG Farben, and the German Light Metal Programme," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Hans Otto Frøland & Mats Ingulstad & Jonas Scherner (ed.), Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe, chapter 12, pages 299-329, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-1-137-53423-1_12
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53423-1_12
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