Operations
Veidekke Industry is Norway's largest private operator in the asphalt market. The company produced 1,7 million tons of asphalt in 2005, out of a total production volume in Norway of 4,5 million tons. The company is also one of the largest producers of gravel and crushed stone, as well as being maintenance operators of public roads.
Veidekke Industry is one of a few companies with worldwide expertise in asphalt core construction. The advantage of Asphaltic Concrete Cores for Embankment dams, is its cost effective waterproofing capabilities and its reliability in various climatic conditions.
In 1995, Veidekke Industry and Shell joined forces to work on a difficult challenge: The development of a process for making asphalt at lower temperatures without sacrificing the quality of the product. Five years later the venture reached its goal with the WAM Foam process, Warm Asphalt Mix, based on Veidekke Industry’s foam bitumen technology.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)