Elkem ASA engages in the provision of advanced material solutions worldwide. It operates through Silicones, Silicon Products, and Carbon Solutions segments. The company offers silicones polymers, including silicone oils, compounds, emulsions, grease, and resins, as well as chlorosilanes, heat cured rubber silicone, liquid silicone rubber, and RTV-1 and RTV-2 silicones. It also provides silicon-based materials comprising silicon, silicon powder/micronized silicon, silica fume/ micro-silica, ferrosilicon, and grain refiners. In addition, the company offers foundry alloys, such as preconditioners, recarburizers, conditioners, nodularizers, inserts, and inoculants; and carbon-based materials comprising carbon electrodes, furnace tapping materials, electrode paste, ramming paste, prebaked electrodes, and furnace lining materials, as well as polymer additives, and oilfield and refractories specialty products. It offers its products to electronics, aerospace, healthcare, personal care, packaging, airbag coating, chemicals, aluminium, electronics, automotive, specialty steel, solar, construction, refractories, oil and gas, ferroalloys, silicon, and aluminium industries. The company was founded in 1904 and is based in Oslo, Norway. Elkem ASA operates as a subsidiary of Bluestar Elkem International Co., Ltd. S.A.
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