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CRU are offering site visits to the Wacker Chemicals Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The site visits will take place on Tuesday 10 September between 07:30-19:30.

Tour 1: Wacker and NTNU 7:30 – 16:45

Tour 2: Wacker Only 9:45 – 17:15

Tour 3: Wacker Only 12:45 – 19:30

Tour 4: NTNU Only 14:30 – 16:45 

Site Visit to the Wacker Chemicals Norway AS

Metallurgical grade silicon for the chemical industry in 4 furnaces, of which one is the biggest in the world. By-product: silica (SiO2 dust) for concrete production and some slag/metal from cleaning tapping ladles which is sold to producers of metallurgical grade manganese alloy. 

Site visit to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Department of Materials Science and Engineering and SINTEF Industry

The department of materials science and engineering and SINTEF Industry are working with many different materials and processes and primary production of silicon and ferrosilicon is one of them. This also means that decarbonization, raw materials, and the chemical reactions in the furnace are a part of this. The laboratories thus have furnaces that can work up to 2500 °C, and furnaces that can simulate the process from mg to hundred of kgs to mention some of the labs cale experiments.