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Skien
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Skien (shē`ən, shā`ən), city (1995 pop. 48,341), capital of Telemark co., SE Norway, a port on the Skienselva River and on the Telemark Canal. Manufactures include forest products and processed food. Ibsen was born in Skien in 1828.
Skien
a port in S Norway, on the Skien River: one of the oldest towns in Norway; timber industry. Pop.: 50 507 (2004 est.)
Skien 

a city and port in southern Norway, on the Skien River, near the place where the Skien flows into Bohus Bay of the Skagerrak. Administrative center of the fylke (county) of Telemark. Population, 47,000 (1976). Skien has footwear, food-processing, machine-building, and pulp and paper industries. It is the birthplace of the writer H. Ibsen.
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Also, NOK 1 million (US$ 153,000) has been allocated for a preliminary study of opportunities for the Klosteroya premises in Skien, Norway, which currently manufactures newsprint and book paper.
In related Norske Skog news by Scharpf, Sara M. / Solutions - for People, Processes and Paper
To improve profitability, the company is considering utilizing spare capacity at other mills and transferring production from the company's weakest unit, its Union mill in, Skien, Norway.
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