Kopperå is a village in the municipality of Meråker

Meråker

Meråker is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda which is about west of Storlien in Sweden and east of Stjørdalshalsen in Stjørdal. Other villages in Meråker include Gudåa,...

 in Nord-Trøndelag

Nord-Trøndelag

is a county constituting the northern part of Trøndelag in Norway. As of 2010, the county had 131,555 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-least populated county. The largest municipalities are Stjørdal, Steinkjer—the county seat, Levanger, Namsos and Verdal, all with between 21,000 and...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The village lies about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of the municipal center of Midtbygda

Midtbygda, Nord-Trøndelag

Midtbygda is a village in the municipality of Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is also the administrative center of the municipality. The village has a population of 936. The population density is ....

 and about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) west of the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 border. The Meråker Line railway runs through the village and stops at the Kopperå Station

Kopperå Station

Kopperå Station is a railway station on the Meråker Line in the village of Kopperå in the municipality of Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The station was opened on 1 April 1899 as Kopperaasen. It was renamed Kopperåen in April 1924...

. The village sits near the confluence

Confluence

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.Confluence may also refer to:* Confluence , a property of term rewriting systems...

 of the rivers Kåpperåa and Stjørdalselva

Stjørdalselva

Stjørdalselva is a long river that reaches from near the Norwegian–Swedish border down the Stjørdalen valley through the municipalities of Meråker and Stjørdal before entering the Trondheimsfjord. The mouth is located between the villages of Stjørdalshalsen and Hell just south of Trondheim...

, and it is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of the lake Fjergen

Fjergen

Fjergen is a lake in the municipality of Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake has a hydropower dam on the southern end which flows out into the Kåpperåa river which is part of the Stjørdalselva river system....

. The local Kopperå Chapel

Kopperå Chapel

Kopperå Chapel is a parish church in the municipality of Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kopperå. The 150-seat church was built of stone in 1936. The church is part of the Meråker parish in the Stjørdal deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros....

 sits on the northwest edge of the village.

Manufacturing

Kopperå had one of the best microsilica factories, Elkem Meraaker, a member of the Elkem

Elkem

Elkem is one of Norway's largest industrial companies, and one of the world's leading suppliers of metals and materials. The company's main products are aluminium, energy and silicon as well as specialised products such as ferrosilicon to foundries, microsilica and carbon...

 Group. Elkem Meraaker (originally Meraaker Smelteverk) started to manufacture carbide

Carbide

In chemistry, a carbide is a compound composed of carbon and a less electronegative element. Carbides can be generally classified by chemical bonding type as follows: salt-like, covalent compounds, interstitial compounds, and "intermediate" transition metal carbides...

in 1898, and was later re-built to manufacture microsilica. But in 2005 the company made the decision to end microsilica manufacturing. The factory ceased operations in summer 2006 and the buildings were taken down by 2008.