On Friday, Ring Tore Teigen and Vidar Svenning Olsen had arrived in Rådal to mark the official opening of Fana Stein og Gjenvinning's new washing plant for contaminated aggregate. At one end, contaminated earth goes in. At the other end, freshly washed stone comes out, ready for sale.
Ring Tore Teigen is the chair of the board and owner of Hellik Teigen AS in Hokksund, and is a third-generation owner of the company that has made a fortune in scrap metal trading.
Vidar Svenning Olsen is the Managing Director of Ragn-Sells AS, a privately owned environmental and recycling company established in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Operations are primarily based on the transport, sorting and processing of waste from businesses and private individuals.
On Friday, Ring Tore Teigen and Vidar Svenning Olsen had arrived in Rådal to mark the official opening of Fana Stein og Gjenvinning's new washing plant for contaminated aggregate. At one end, contaminated earth goes in. At the other end, freshly washed stone comes out, ready for sale.
Ring Tore Teigen is the chair of the board and owner of Hellik Teigen AS in Hokksund, and is a third-generation owner of the company that has made a fortune in scrap metal trading.
Vidar Svenning Olsen is the Managing Director of Ragn-Sells AS, a privately owned environmental and recycling company established in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Operations are primarily based on the transport, sorting and processing of waste from businesses and private individuals.
70 years old
Fana Stein og Gjenvinning is turning 70 this year. When the company was started in 1954, it was to quarry stone where Fana Stadion is located today. Today's athletes train in the Høie Hall, which is named after FSG's very first director. Eventually, FSG was given responsibility for depositing all the rubbish from the people of Bergen, which was stored in an open landfill in Rådalen, where Stavollen and the fields of Stend upper secondary school are located today.
Today, FSG extracts stone from Stendafjellet, and the caverns left behind from the stone extraction are used for the disposal of contaminated material that has not hitherto been possible to clean or wash.
Extraction and processing of stone remains the core business of Fana Stein og Gjenvinning, but according to General Manager Karsten M. Gundersen, the new washing plant will contribute to a renewal of the business operations.
– In the future, recycling is going to become a more important part of our business, says Gundersen.
Read more.
(source: Fanaposten)
