Automation for a “green” Norway

Pilz Scan­di­navia was founded in 1996 in Son­der­borg, Den­mark, and devel­oped into the first address for safe automa­tion in all of Scan­di­navia and the Balkans in just a few years. There are tech­nical offices in Helsinki, Fin­land and Kungs­backa, Sweden. Pilz has been working closely with its sales and ser­vice partner Treotham in Norway since the 90s: “Together with Treotham, we are able to offer cus­tomer-ori­ented automa­tion solu­tions for a number of indus­tries, including oil and gas, food and bev­erage, alu­minium and engi­neering,” reports Allan Paulsen, Man­aging Director of Pilz Scan­di­navia.

Heavyweight for oil and gas

Norway has large oil and gas reserves, is the world’s third-largest exporter of nat­ural gas and tenth-largest exporter of crude oil. The energy sector plays a key role in the Nor­we­gian robot and automa­tion industry.

Pilz has a fan­tastic rep­u­ta­tion in Norway as an automa­tion com­pany, espe­cially when the focus is on the safety of human, machine and the envi­ron­ment. “Our unique selling propo­si­tions are, on the one hand, our exten­sive knowl­edge in the field of Safety and Secu­rity and, on the other, our close part­ner­ship rela­tions with our cus­tomers,” explains Paulsen.

Safety and Security are in high demand

This knowl­edge is in high demand among Nor­we­gian com­pa­nies: The strategy there is to reverse the trend toward out­sourcing pro­duc­tion to low-wage coun­tries. Instead, many com­pa­nies want to achieve prof­itable pro­duc­tion in Norway through the use of robotics and digi­ti­sa­tion. Safety and Secu­rity are impor­tant suc­cess fac­tors in this regard.

Fur­ther­more, the country is also set­ting its sights firmly on the topic of renew­able energy: The growing demand for automa­tion in power plants and wind farms as well as with hydro­elec­tric power marks the shift from oil and gas as fuel to green ener­gies.

Pilz is helping to shape the shift to “green”

Almost half of the entire final energy con­sump­tion in Norway is cov­ered by elec­tricity. Hydro­elec­tric power is pri­marily used; it pro­vides the major share of power gen­er­a­tion. The Nor­we­gian elec­tricity sector is pri­marily based on this: In 2022 the share of hydro­elec­tric power was 88.2 per­cent. Norway wishes to con­tinue expanding its clean power system in order to decar­bonise addi­tional eco­nomic sec­tors by expanding elec­tri­fi­ca­tion.

“Pilz wants to sup­port and help shape this trans­for­ma­tion!” empha­sises Paulsen. “We will con­tinue to con­cen­trate on automa­tion and safety in the areas of sus­tain­able power gen­er­a­tion and thereby sup­port the trans­for­ma­tion to a ‘green’ mar­itime and off­shore industry.”