Norcem Brevik is a
cement
A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel ( aggregate) together. Cement mi ...
factory located at
Brevik in
Porsgrunn
is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Porsgrunn (town), city ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. Established as Dalen Portland Cementfabrikk in 1916, production commenced in 1919. The plant merged with
Christiania Portland Cementfabrikk and
Nordland Portland Cementfabrikk in 1968 to establish
Norcem
Norcem AS is a Norway, Norwegian manufacturer of cement, and subsidiary of HeidelbergCement. It has plants in Brevik, Norway, Brevik and Kjøpsvik.
History
Norcem was established in 1968 as a merger between the three cement factories Norce ...
, which is now part of
HeidelbergCement
Heidelberg Materials is a German multinational building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Formerly known as HeidelbergCement AG, the company has rebranded as Heidelberg Materials in September 2022. It is a DAX corporation ...
. The facility has an annual output of 1.2 million tonnes.
Cement companies of Norway
Companies based in Porsgrunn
Manufacturing companies established in 1916
1916 establishments in Norway
Norcem
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1968
1968 disestablishments in Norway
1968 mergers and acquisitions
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