Category: Defense / Security
The United States and Norway entered into an official arrangement to mutually supply defense goods and services needed for national security in an April 12 signing ceremony at the Norwegian-American Defense Conference (NADIC). The Norwegian Ministry of Defense’ national armaments director Morten Tiller and Eric Chewning, the U.S. Defense Department’s deputy assistant undersecretary of defense for Manufacturing […]
Source: Defense News
Category: Food & Beverage
Ett år etter at Guy Hands tok over som Development Licencee for McDonald’s i Norge, Sverige, Danmark og Finland, er selskapet nå klart for å sette planene om ekspansjon ut i live. 100 nye restauranter skal på plass i Norden i løpet av de neste fem årene, og 200 nye i løpet av de neste […]
Source: NTBinfo
Category: Chemicals / Metals
Yara International ASA and BASF today celebrated the opening of a new world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, Texas, USA. The $600-million, state-of-the-art facility uses a cost-efficient and sustainable production process, based on by-product hydrogen instead of natural gas. Yara Freeport LLC is owned 68 percent by Yara and 32 percent by BASF. The plant, located at BASF’s […]
Source: Globe Newswire
Category: Seafood
Norway exported 676,000 tonnes of seafood with a value of NOK 23.7 billion in the first quarter. This is a volume decline of 8 per cent and a decline of 2 per cent or NOK 488 million compared with the first quarter last year. “This is the best quarter for cod ever, with a total […]
Source: Seafood.no
Category: AmCham Norway
“The big danger in incentivizing [renewable] energy market development is that government money can become the market.” So stated New York state’s visiting “energy czar” during an illuminating recent roundtable discussion with senior Stavanger-region leaders. Prior to his role as Chairman of Energy & Finance for New York, Richard Kauffman worked in energy and finance […]
Source: Amcham