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Kalundborg

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Kalundborg (kä`lnbôr), city (1992 pop. 15,304), Vestsjælland co., central Denmark, a port on the Kalundborg Fjord, an arm of the Store Bælt. It is a commercial, industrial, and communications center. Manufactures include chemicals, machinery, and ships. Founded c.1170, the city has a 12th-century church laid out in the form of a Greek cross. The novelist Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) was born in Kalundborg.


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Twenty years ago, when industry managers in the small industrial town of Kalundborg realized they were facing a potential water shortage, they got together to see how they might better share resources.
Contrast that process with these words from business writer Paul Hawken's 1993 book The Ecology of Commerce - a passage the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce saw fit to quote in a portfolio sent to journalists interested in its eco-industrial park: "A prototype of industrial ecology and cooperation is in place right now in Kalundborg, Denmark.
On another front, consider Kalundborg, Denmark, where companies recycle each other's wastes.
 
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