ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates Gr nnings ter and Steen's endeavours to protect and promote the Kristiansand subsidiary's mandate within the Falconbridge organization and their efforts to modernize and expand the plant. It also examines how Gr innings ter and Steen tried to restore and promote the Kristiansand refinery's mandate after the Second World War. The war was still raging in the Pacific and due to shortages of shipping capacity the Allied authorities decided that Falconbridge's nickel should still be refined at International Nickel Company (INCO's) North American plants. Kristiansand and to continue the wartime development work on of the so-called chloride-refining process, an improvement of the original Hybinette process. One of the production units most affected by this American policy was Falconbridge's Kristiansand refinery. In order to raise the refining capacity Falconbridge invested more than 13 million Canadian dollars in Kristiansand making it the most up-to-date and largest nickel refinery in Western Europe.
