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The Miris company receives help from China to build an infection control factory in Halden.
BJØRVIKA, OSLO (Nettavisen Økonomi): There are hardly any people left at work. The receptionist says that only a quarter of the workers at the Bjørvika skyscraper go to the dining room.
But there are still some who are on the 14th floor. Miris company manager Jan Gunnar Mathisen has interesting things to do.
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Cooperation with China
A year and a half ago, he came into contact with China Development Integration. The huge government of the Chinese government is responsible for building new cities, roads and other infrastructure. The so-called Silkeveien project. Moss man Mathisen has an interesting project going on with the company.
– When the pandemic hit hard and there was a severe shortage of infection equipment, I immediately contacted the people I knew. Next, we import important and much-needed equipment, says Mathisen.
But he discovered a major problem fairly quickly.
– The planes didn’t leave. The supply lines stopped. It is quite clear to me that Norway must have at least adequate emergency production. Now we intend to do something about it, Mathisen tells Nettavisen.
Several politicians have raised the same problem and that emergency preparedness should be established in the Nordic countries, so that Norway and other countries will not be so dependent on China when the alarm goes off around the world.
The company’s plan is to build a local production facility in Halden. The room is now in place and the technology and machines have been ordered.
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HALDEN: In this old building in Halden, there will be an infection control equipment factory.
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– It will be ready during the last quarter of this year and I think we can start production early next year, says Mathisen and smiles.
The company is best known for the “Svart” project, in which they will build a positive energy hotel near Svartisen, one of Norway’s largest glaciers.
– We were in the middle of a refinancing of a hotel project, when the tourism industry fell off the cliff. But now we see that our energy positive building technology has become more relevant than ever.
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Luxury hotel
BLACK: The company’s most famous project is to build a hotel for wealthy men with positive energy near the Svartisen Glacier.
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The online newspaper has previously mentioned how the company raises money in the US to start the project. But Mathisen experiences that the interest is at least as great in Asia.
– The Chinese build entire cities in a jiffy along the Silk Road. They will use the technology we have to be able to build entire cities that are energy positive. It will turn the energy problem upside down, he says.
– Through infection control projects, we have become known. Now, together with them and other partners, we will create energy positive cities. If we can do it with a hotel, we can do it with an entire city. Along the entire Silk Road.
– Are you concerned about working directly with the Chinese authorities in this way?
– No, they have an ardent environmental commitment in what they do. The environment and renewables have become economically profitable and, while others speak, China acts. I have thought several times about what they want with us – and our environmental philosophy – polluting is never bad, and the purest energy is the one you don’t use, it fits them like a glove. For a company that thinks about sustainability in each and every one, China is the ideal partner.
If you really want to get things done, it’s happening in Asia.
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– After all, there are 1.4 billion Chinese and 5 million in Norway. And keep in mind that China wants to contribute to Norwegian emergency preparedness production. This is beneficial to everyone.
The Halden factory will also have an emergency warehouse that will work for the entire Nordic and Baltic region. There will be two production lines in the existing building and a new positive energy building will be constructed.
– It will be a great operation. But it is absolutely necessary and it is the right thing to do.
The world has changed forever
The company is betting that the world will never be exactly the same again after the ravages of the coronavirus. Several researchers have pointed out that there may be more pandemics. People’s attitudes toward hygiene and infection control can also change forever.
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– Yes, I think we have more of this in Norway, to use for our own protection. It will be something lasting. Like with the fruit in the store. I think there are many who pass through here and think if it is clean or not, and they do not buy if it is not wrapped in plastic. In Italy, everyone wears plastic gloves before picking up the fruit at the counter, he says.
It’s hard to imagine a world without the experiences of the pandemic, Mathisen believes, and he anticipates there will be much more use of both masks and no less of gloves in the future.
The big concern, then, is garbage. Even before the pandemic, the world struggled with plastic in the ocean and pollution as a result of heavy plastic use. It has only increased during the pandemic in the form of disposable equipment.
– One of the production lines will be used to make infection control equipment that is degradable and environmentally friendly, says Mathisen.
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