Årdal og Sunndal Verk

Årdal og Sunndal Verk or ÅSV is a defunct

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company that operated the

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plants in

Årdal Årdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Årdalsfjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Årdalstangen is the administrative center of the municipality. The other main village is � ...

Sunndal is a municipality in the Nordmøre region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Sunndalsøra. Other villages include Gjøra, Grøa, Hoelsand, Jorda ...

Høyanger Høyanger () is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Høyanger. Other villages in Høyanger municipality include Austreim, Bjordal, Kyrkjeb� ...

and

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. The company was established to take advantage of the hydro-electric power plants in the respective villages to create aluminum plants. The company was founded in 1946 to continue the unfinished production of the Årdal plant started by the German occupational forces during

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. In 1954 construction on the Sunndal plant started. The company was merged with

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in 1986 to create the

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division Hydro Aluminium. Formerly government-owned companies of Norway Manufacturing companies established in 1946 Norsk Hydro Aluminium companies of Norway Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1986 1946 establishments in Norway 1986 disestablishments in Norway {{norway-company-stub