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Article: Old world ammo craft: Norma's rich history in the ammunition business is founded on quality.(Open Country)
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- Petersen's Hunting
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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ITS NAME DERIVES from a Bellini opera. After more than 110 years, Norma hasn't changed it. Torbjorn Lindskog, current CEO, came from another industry. "I'm having more fun at Norma," he says. "History, adventure, colorful people--the hunting fraternity, has them all!"
Norma started making amino soon after the development of smokeless powder. In 1902, the company had one employee tending two machines in a small shop in Amotfors, a bucolic town surrounded by the forests and lakes of Sweden's Varmland region. By 1906, the cultural cords binding Norway and Sweden had unraveled. Norway's off-shore oil reserves were still decades from discovery: the country had little ...