Hunsfos Fabrikker was a

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed ...

factory and

company A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of people, whether Natural person, natural, Legal person, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common p ...

Vennesla Vennesla is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vennesla. Other villages in Vennesla include Grovane, Hægeland, Homst ...

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

county,

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. It was founded in 1886 as a takeover of the facilities of Otterelvens Papirfabrik, founded 1873 but later liquidated. It has harnessed the hydropower in the river

Otra The Otra is the largest river in the Sørlandet region of Norway. It begins in Setesdalsheiene mountains at the lake Breidvatnet in Bykle municipality in Agder county, just south of the border with Vinje municipality in Vestfold og Telemark count ...

, and in 1926 it established a power plant at the waterfall Hunsfossen. It produces paper, mostly for the export market, by buying

cellulose Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is an important structural component of the primary cell wall ...

and

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from elsewhere. It owned the company Norsk Wallboard from 1989 to 1997, and was sold to Cham-Tenero Paper Mills in 1999, whereby it was delisted from Oslo Stock Exchange. The factory was closed in autumn 2011.Peder Qvale
Lager næringspark av papirfabrikk
Teknisk Ukeblad, May 9, 2012, retrieved December 11, 2012

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Pulp and paper mills in Norway Defunct manufacturing companies of Norway Companies based in Agder Vennesla Manufacturing companies established in 1886 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2011 1886 establishments in Norway 2011 disestablishments in Norway Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange Norwegian companies established in 1886 {{Norway-company-stub