Tofte is a village in the municipality of Hurum

Hurum

Hurum is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village Klokkarstua. The municipality of Hurum was established on 1 January 1838 . The small village of Holmsbu was granted town status in 1847, but it did not become a municipality of its own...

, 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 has 3,045 inhabitants as of 1 January 2009.

Tofte is best known for Södra Cell Tofte, a pulp factory in the middle of Tofte, and Hurum factories that make paper. The major industry in Tofte is the Södra Cell Tofte

Södra Cell Tofte

Södra Cell Tofte is a pulp mill located in Tofte, Norway. The plant has been owned by Södra Skogsägarna since 2000 when it bought the plant from Norske Skog. The raw material used at the plant is from eucalyptus, pine and spruce. The product is pulp which is used for fine paper. Annual production...

 paper mill

Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier machine or other type of paper machine.- History :...

. In 2007, the latter was taken over by the industrial company Daimyo

Daimyo

is a generic term referring to the powerful territorial lords in pre-modern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings...

. At Södra Cell's factory is also Statkraft Hurum salt plant (Statkraft Hurum saltkraftverk), the world's first saline power plant based on osmosis, opened by Statkraft during 2009.