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Årdal og Sunndal Verk

Defunct Norwegian state owned company

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Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Årdal og Sunndal Verk or ÅSV is a defunct Norwegian state owned company that operated the aluminium plants in Årdal Municipality, Sunndal Municipality, Høyanger Municipality and Holmestrand Municipality. The company was established to take advantage of the hydro-electric power plants in the respective municipalities to create aluminium plants. The company was founded in 1947 to continue the unfinished production of the Årdal plant started by the German occupational forces during World War II. In 1954 construction on the Sunndal plant started. The company was merged with Norsk Hydro in 1986 to create the light metal division Hydro Aluminium.

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The public source identifies “Årdal og Sunndal Verk” as defunct Norwegian state owned company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Årdal, Sunndal and Verk.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1954, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Årdal, Sunndal and Verk providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1954 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Årdal og Sunndal Verk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.