On 16 July 2010 Nammo successfully completed the contract with the Norwegian Armed Forces for the demilitarization of 52.000 155mm ICM cluster munitions at Nammo NAD in Norway.
The contract was a result of the Oslo process to ban cluster weapons. The Convention on Cluster Munitions was adopted in Dublin by 107 nations on 30 May 2008 and signed 3 December the same year. The Convention will become binding according to international law when it enters into force on 1 August 2010.
Nammo has world-leading expertise within industrialized and environmentally friendly demilitarization of conventional ammunition in general, and in particularly for cluster munitions. On behalf of several NATO customers the Nammo Group has demilitarized several million submunitions from cluster weapons at its facilities in Norway, Sweden and Germany. Nammo has great expectations for future demilitarization contracts as a consequence of the ban of cluster weapons.
“It has been of great importance to us that Norway as one of our three Nordic home markets entered this contract with Nammo. By choosing a safe, secure and environmentally friendly way to successfully demil Norwegian cluster munitions, we hope that the Norwegian Armed Forces and our Nordic customers in particularly, will consider Nammo as a future supplier to secure the demil of other old and obsolete ammunition they may have in stock,” says Edgar Fossheim, President & CEO of the Nammo Group.