Company Turns Scrap Metal Into High-Grade Billet
Evansville Courier & Press › June 24, 2005
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One hundred years ago, a Norwegian businessmen and a brilliant Norwegian physicist-inventor formed a company to extract nitrogen from the atmosphere to create fertilizer.
The process required considerable electric energy, and the rivers that gushed down the mountains of Norway were ideal for producing cheap hydroelectric power.See the full content of this document
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Company Turns Scrap Metal Into High-Grade Billet
By the mid-1960s, the company -- Norsk Hydro -- ventured into another business that demanded vast electric power: Primary aluminum p...
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