OSO Hotwater Sandnes

General information

Since the founding of OSO in 1932 as one of the first welding companies in Norway, OSO has been owned by the Braathen family. For 80 years, OSO has led the water heater development in Scandinavia. In 1970, OSO was the first in the world to mass-produce stainless steel water heaters.

Environment

Since OSO became Norway’s first environmentally sustainable company in 1956, environment has been at the core of our values.
The environmental work through more than 40 years has resulted in a highly efficient and automated production without any harmful emissions and with a minimum consumption of resources. OSO’s products have shown an unprecedented life cycle economy with an average life span of 25 years

Values

Over more than 80 years we have built trust – from suppliers, employees and customers. We value our customers.

Our products have many advantages such as:

- Extremely low weight
- Low heat loss
- High efficiency
- High corrosion resistance
- Environmentally correct procedures
- Safety
- Experience

OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing)

OSO delivers complete (direct electric or indirectly heated) products or inner tanks with built-in heating coils to some of the leading suppliers of alternative energy sources in the American and European market. Typical applications are boilers, air / ground source heat pumps or solar collectors.
Complete OEM products combine low heat loss, efficient heat transfer through OSO’s own stainless steel heating coils with the well-known OSO quality.

Awards

2005 GRIP’s Glassbjørnen honorary award – Environmental work through 30 years

2004 EMTEK award – Best environmental and energy-saving product 2004

2000 Work environment award – for outstanding workplace for the employees

1998 Best environmental report from manufacturing company

1996 Association of house owners Norway – for OSO developed environmental homes

1995 Environment-technology award – Outstanding environmental effort

1995 SCANVAC-award – Scandinavia’s most environmentally friendly company

1990 Product award Norway - for environmental and future-thinking product range

1982 Welding award – for revolutionary welding technique developed by OSO

Certifications

ISO 9001
ISO 14001
OHSAS 18001