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Borregaard Opens High-Tech Control Centre Featured

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Minister of Trade and Industry, Trond Giske, has opened Borregaard’s new control centre, which will ensure innovative, knowledge based and eco-friendly industry in the years to come.
        
“This modern control centre demonstrates the focus on Norwegian process industry. The government is a team player with industries that focus on innovative, knowledge based and forward looking solutions. This new control centre is something Borregaard and the company’s employees have every reason to be proud of,” says Minister of Trade and Industry, Trond Giske.

Borregaard has invested more than NOK 80 million in the centre, which combines the control of 15 of the plants in the factory area into one joint control centre. New technology and a new organisation make the control centre the most technically advanced of its type in Norway.
 
“Borregaard’s plant in Sarpsborg is the world’s most advanced biorefinery. With a 3 kilometre long factory area, in which 22 factories are integrated, Borregaard is a complex activity. The operations centre will ensure increased productivity and safeguard control by means of process stability and optimising the production processes,” says Per A. Sørlie, President and CEO of Borregaard.

Borregaard’s new operations centre is the result of a major change process, the aim of which is to increase competitiveness and the focus on health, safety and the environment and, not least, interesting jobs. The project has set out to incorporate a dynamic performance culture by using increased competence and new technology to the maximum. The success criteria have been employee involvement, competence building and a new organisation.

“With the new operations centre, we can offer high-tech and interesting jobs using advanced control systems that will increase the attractiveness of jobs in this industry in the years to come,” says Sørlie.

Borregaard is the world’s most advanced biorefinery. By using natural, sustainable raw materials, Borregaard produces advanced and eco-friendly biochemicals, biomaterials and bioethanol that replace oil-based products. Borregaard has been the biggest employer in Sarpsborg ever since it began in 1889, and still is, with almost 800 employees. The company is part of the Orkla group and has altogether 1,300 employees in factories and sales offices in 20 countries in Europe, the USA, Asia and Africa. The head office and the company’s largest plants are in Sarpsborg.

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