AF Group

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AF Gruppen ASA
Company type Allmennaksjeselskap
OSE: AFG
Industry Construction
Founded1985
Headquarters Oslo, Norway
Area served
Scandinavia
Key people
Pål Egil Rønn (CEO)
Morten Grongstad (Chairman)
RevenueIncrease2.svg NOK 12,4 billion (2015)
NOK 1004 million (2015)
1,447,000,000 Norwegian krone (2020)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Number of employees
3000
Website afgruppen.no

The AF Group ASA (OSE : AFG) (Norwegian : AF Gruppen) is the third largest civil engineering and construction company in Norway. The company headquarters is located in Oslo. The AF Group is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

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History

The AF Group was established in 1985. The company eventually went into the oil and gas sector and built the landfall tunnel from the Troll Field in 1991, among other projects. AF merged with Ragnar Evensen in 1997, one of Oslo's largest contractors, which doubled AF's revenues. The acquisition of real estate-company Odin in 1997 was the basis for the business area Property, and AF built up the business areas demolition and recycling in the years that followed. The company took on the demolition of Sola Refinery in Jæren in 2000, one of the largest demolition projects in Norway. AF eventually became one of Norway's biggest within demolition.

Today, the company is one of the largest providers of energy efficiency and renewable energy production. In 2013, Offshore was established as a separate business area, after several projects in the years before. The Offshore commitment was extended with maintenance and modification, as well as marine and rig services, and new contracts in the North Sea resulted in Environmental Base at Vats, a modern reception facility for decommissioned offshore installations. [1]

Former subsidiaries

Norway

  • AF Gruppen Industri AS
  • AF Ragnar Evensen AS
  • AF Spesialistprosjekt AS
  • AF Brødrene Holstad
  • Rolvsrud Utbygging AS
  • SRG - Scandinavian Rock Group AS

Sweden

  • AF Anläggning AB
  • JK Bygg i Göteborg AB

Business areas

Property

The real estate division is responsible for developing the housing business and manages a number of properties in Eastern Norway and Western Sweden.

Building

The building division of AF supplies new constructions, including residential buildings, office buildings, schools and cultural and institutional buildings.

Civil Engineering

Civil engineering is the largest division in the AF Group. It is divided into three business units: AF Civil Engineering, AF Harbour, AF Oil & Energy and has projects all over Norway, and western Sweden.

Environment

The environment division works with demolition and upgrading of older structures, including offshore installations for which it has built a top-modern decommissioning yard at Vats, near Haugesund. The division has offices in Norway, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Energy

The energy division works with designing, improving and optimizing energy solutions in buildings, constructions and ships and offshore installations. It has offices in Norway and China.

Management

Honors and rewards

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References

  1. "AF Group. The AF Group ASA is the third largest civil engineering and construction company in Norway. The company headquarters is located in Oslo. The AF Group". en.buy-com.ru. Retrieved 2021-12-20.