Boliden Odda

Boliden – a longstanding and unique CodeIT customer – is expanding the world’s most climate-effective zinc production.

Boliden is now expanding the world´s most climate-effective zinc smelter in Odda, southern Norway. A historic investment both for Boliden and Norway, now estimated at more than €800m. The expansion will help Boliden Odda increase its annual production capacity to 350,000 metric tons from the current 200,000 metric tons. The project is called Green Zinc Odda 4.0 (GZO) with Boliden’s ambition to be the greenest and most advanced zinc producer in the world.

Not everyone knows that Boliden could be regarded as the midwife who delivered the newborn CodeIT back in 2011 when CodeIT Enterprise™ first saw the light of day and the company CodeIT was founded in Norway. Those in the know, however, may regard Boliden more as a Godparent than the midwife.

This press release dated January 17th, 2011, just as CodeIT was being founded explains why Boliden has this unique status:

Boliden has chosen CodeIT as a supplier of hardware and software for automatic labeling and system integration at the zinc smelters in Finland (Kokkola) and Norway (Odda). At the same time, a master license of the software is to be installed and operated at Boliden's marketing office in Stockholm.

Boliden has been working on the project for a long time, and after careful evaluation of different solutions and suppliers, CodeIT was chosen as a partner for Boliden in Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

CodeIT has developed new software for the integration of AutoID/AIDC and data capture applications in the production and logistics network. The product has been named CodeIT Enterprise.

Documented simplicity and flexibility in the software solution were decisive factors in choosing a supplier. CodeIT Enterprise – the new and innovative toolbox – will also provide good opportunities for future expansions and standardization at Boliden.

Bjørnar Torsnes, founder and CEO of CodeIT AS says that the delivery is comprehensive in terms of hardware, system integration, and software. The equipment will be installed in harsh operating environments at the factories in Finland and Norway.

- For CodeIT it is strategically important to win this type of contract. Here we get confirmation that CodeIT Enterprise is a new innovative product that gives our customers a competitive advantage, Torsnes asserts.

At CodeIT we are proud that we live up to our promise from 2011 “[That CodeIT] will also provide good opportunities for future expansions and standardization at Boliden.”

All the Team at CodeIT wishes Boliden every continued success with their ambitious plans, and for choosing CodeIT for consulting and delivery of services and products.

The CodeIT Team at Boliden

Photo: Jørgen Olsson (CodeIT), Bjørnar Torsnes (CodeIT), Jardar Hvidsten (Semcon). Three members of the current digitalization pre-study Green Zink 4.0 Odda project. Visiting Boliden Kokkola Finland in November 2023, almost 13 years after Boliden first d\started using CodeIT.

Zinc Bars at Boliden

Photo: Zinc Bars © Boliden

Top photo: Boliden Odda © Boliden



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