Hälleforsvägen 12B

Majestic edifice!

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Nitro Nobel's old and stately head office! The building has a very interesting history with roots that include Alfred Nobel, and measures approximately 3,000 sqm. Enormous potential for anyone who sees an opportunity for their business, or for anyone who wants to rent out the properties or change the use to residential. Located in a very pleasant position on the shore of Lake Norra Vikern.

Heating: District heating

Water and sewage: Municipal

Windows: Double-glazed

Roof: Brick, concrete and slate roof

Frame: Stone/concrete

Floor slabs: Concrete

Foundation: Basement

Fibre installed - Solör is the supplier

There are 2 switchboards, one of which serves this property and the other which Orica has the right to use via an easement.

Price per sqm: +1427:-

Type code: 325 Rental premises

Area: 3,500 sqm

Year built: 1935

Mortgage deed: 2,000,000

Plot area: 5,000 sqm

Property designation: NORA GYTTORP 6:86

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Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget (also Nitroglycerin AB), renamed Nitro Nobel AB in 1965, was a Swedish manufacturer of nitroglycerin and other explosives founded in 1864 by Alfred Nobel. Nitroglycerin AB was both Nobel's first company and the world's first manufacturer of nitroglycerin in commercial quantities. The company's former operations are now part of Orica Sweden AB.

Background and founding

At the time of the company's founding, Alfred Nobel had been experimenting for several years with the promising but difficult-to-handle nitroglycerin, partly in St Petersburg and partly in the family's own laboratory in Heleneborg on the outskirts of Stockholm. At Heleneborg, his brother Emil Nobel and five other people had died on 3 September 1864 in a blasting accident, which led to all production of nitroglycerin being banned within the city limits of Stockholm.

Despite the accident, Nobel was convinced that he was on the way to finding a safe solution for handling "blasting oil", which was nitroglycerin's trade name. He contacted Johan Wilhelm Smitt to obtain capital to form a company, and the result was Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget, which was formed on 28 November 1864. Shareholders were Alfred Nobel, his father Immanuel Nobel the younger, Smitt and Carl Wennerström.

1865-1896

The company's first problem was finding a suitable location for production, since Stockholm had banned nitroglycerin manufacturing. After starting production on a barge in Lake Mälaren, permission was granted in 1865 to build a factory at Vinterviken. Several blasting accidents at the factory during 1866 in connection with the storage and transport of nitroglycerin led Nobel to begin experimenting with mixing the nitroglycerin with an absorbent material to obtain a more manageable product. After several different options had been tried, diatomaceous earth proved suitable for the purpose, and dynamite was the result, for which Nobel received a Swedish patent in 1867.

In the early period, Alfred Nobel himself performed several different tasks at the company, serving as its director, chief engineer, bookkeeper and salesperson. In 1867, however, his brother Robert Nobel was engaged as managing director, and shortly thereafter Nobel's childhood friend Alarik Liedbeck became works master.

Several blasting accidents occurred at the factory even after dynamite was invented and despite safety measures, in several cases with fatalities among the staff. The destroyed facilities were rebuilt after the accidents, and capacity was normally increased after each reconstruction in step with increased demand for the products. The biggest accident in the company's history occurred on 11 June 1868, when 14 people died. Another serious accident occurred on 26 May 1874, when twelve people died. On that occasion, however, it was possible to reduce the extent of the damage by hauling nitroglycerin away from a burning building.

Further product development led to blasting gelatin in 1876 and later "Extra-Dynamit". In 1887 and 1888, patents were taken out on smokeless powder suitable for military purposes. The powder was called Ballistit or "Nobel powder", was a double-base powder based on nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, and was produced from 1890 in a separate factory building erected in 1889 at Vinterviken.

1897-1985

Extradynamit from Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget

After Nobel's death, the estate sold the various Nobel-owned companies to different buyers, and the funds received became the capital of the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Prizes. This led to certain restructurings of the business, and the production of Ballistit was moved in 1898 from Vinterviken to Karlskoga and the then-formed AB Bofors Nobelkrut within AB Bofors-Gullspång, which had received other owners than Nitroglycerin AB.

In 1915, Nitroglycerin AB bought its competitor Gyttorps Sprängämnes AB, which had begun nitroglycerin production in Gyttorp in 1886. As early as 1902, the two companies had cooperated on pricing.

As the built-up area came ever closer to the factory in Vinterviken, it became increasingly difficult to obtain continued acceptance for explosives manufacturing at the site, and production was therefore moved to the purchased factory in Gyttorp outside Nora. In the summer of 1921, dynamite production in Vinterviken ceased, but the company continued operations at the site until 1987, for a time as warehouses and later (1946-1987) a detonics laboratory.

In 1935, the head office was moved from Stockholm to Gyttorp. A new factory at Bastnäs was taken into use in 1954.

In 1965, Nitroglycerin AB changed its name to Nitro Nobel AB. In 1978, Kema Nord bought the company and formed KemaNobel.

1986-2006

In 1986, Nitro Nobel AB was sold by Nobel Industrier to Dyno Industrier AS, and in 1999 Nitro Nobel AB changed its name to Dyno Nobel Sweden AB. In 2006, Dyno Nobel Sweden AB was bought by the Australian Orica group, which is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial explosives and initiation systems, and became Orica Sweden AB (Orica Mining Services).

Managing directors

1864-1867: Alfred Nobel, at times Carl Wennerström

1867-1870: Robert Nobel

1870-1921:

1921-1944: Sigurd Adolf Gustafsson Nauckhoff

1944-1965: Torsten Edlund

1965-1975: Ulf Langefors

current: Håkan Führ

Orica is an Australia-based multinational company that is one of the world's largest suppliers of civil explosives. The company's blasting products are used, among other things, in mining, oil and gas extraction and construction. Orica is also a supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction and services in mining and tunnel construction.

Orica has approximately 11,500 employees and operations in over 100 countries. Orica is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and has its head office in East Melbourne.

History

The company was founded in 1874 under the name Jones, Scott and Co., and was then an explosives supplier during the Victorian gold rush. The company was bought by the Scottish Nobel Industries, which in 1926 merged with several other British chemical companies to form Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). In 1928, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand (ICIANZ) was formed to manage all of ICI's interests in Australasia. In 1971, the company changed its name to ICI Australia.

In July 1997, ICI Australia became an independent company after the parent company ICI Plc sold off its shareholding of 62.4 per cent. Because of the separation from the British ICI, the Australian company changed its name to Orica on 2 February 1998.

In 2006, parts of Dyno Nobel's explosives business were bought. The purchase included operations in Sweden that originally were Alfred Nobel's company Nitroglycerin AB.

In 2010, Orica sold the paint company Dulux in order to focus on sales to mining and construction.

In November 2014, Orica announced the sale of its chemicals business to the private equity firm Blackstone Group. The sale was completed on 2 March 2015 and the business was renamed Ixom.