Elkem Meraker, formerly known as Meraker Smelteverk, was a microsilica plant located at Kopperå in

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. The plant was established in 1898 to manufacture

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, put later rebuilt to manufacture microsilica. In 1981, it was sold from

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to Elkem. Products were transported along the

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to the port at

Muruvik Muruvika or Muruvik is a village in the municipality of Malvik in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located near the end of the Stjørdalsfjorden, an arm of the Trondheimsfjord. The village sits about north of the village of Hommelvik, ...

, where they were shipped abroad. The plant closed in 2006. Influential manager from 1906 to 1928 was

Iver Høy Iver Hesselberg Høy (26 September 1877 – 8 March 1943) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Langesund as a son of shipmaster Christian Høy (1836–1896) and Karen Elise Wright. In December 1902 he married ship captain's daughter Lille ...

. At the time, the plant was owned by Meraker Brug. It was sold to an American company in 1928.

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