Rubb Fabric Building News

Rubb AS has supplied an FX type storage building to Peder Halvorsen Industrier in Norway. This building is located at Øyestranda and measures 14m x 33m with a 4m sidewall. The customer had a special request for a white building and as Rubb always puts the customer first we naturally supplied what the customer wanted.

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In 1842 Halvor Sørensen started a ship repair yard in Allègaten, Flekkefjord, Norway. He had come to Flekkefjord from the county of Telemark to carry out special work on the Lista Lighthouse. In time, his son Søren Halvorsen gradually took over the business, marking the start of a tradition in the company of management passing from father to son. In 1939, Halvor Sørensen’s great grandson Peder Halvorsen began to work in the company. Peder Halvorsens Industrier AS is a large supplier to the offshore market in Norway. The company is in the forefront on topics such as heat, steam, and pressure.

Rubb AS has supplied a Rubb FX type building measuring 10m wide x 30m long with 4m sidewall to Havyard Leirvik AS in Sogn, Norway. The Rubb Building is our type “Thermohall” building which means it is insulated using Rubb’s unique and patented insulation system.

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The structure is to be used as a storage building on the quay where they complete installations on ships that are built at the shipyard. The Havyard Group is a fully integrated ship building enterprise. They are a part of the strong maritime cluster on the west coast of Norway which has specialized in state-of-the-art offshore and fishing vessel technology. They have a strategy that the most technology focused part of the shipbuilding shall be done by companies within the group. The Havyard Group offers ship design, shipbuilding technology, ship equipment and systems and service to sailing ships world-wide. Rubb is proud to be able to supply our Thermohall concept to such a valued customer.

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Rubb AS has supplied a Rubb Building type NV to Norgesbuss in Drøbak, Norway. The building is 10m wide x 18m long with 4m sidewall. The Building is to be used as a maintenance shop for Norgesbuss’ department in Drøbak. Rubb AS has also supplied a 79 kw diesel powered heater, 2 lights and a folding door with an integrated personnel door. The Rubb Building is also supplied with an inner skin to mitigate condensation and improve the insulation in the building.

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This Rubb building uses the patented insulation system to ensure an environmentally friendly building at an economical price. The storage building is supplied to Bokn Plast AS which is a supplier of oil tanks, fat separators, oil separators and many other products related to the oil and fish farming industry. The Rubb "Thermohall" building is 30m wide x 50m long with 6m sidewall.

This is a Rubb Building type FX supplied to Stranda Prolog AS. This is a company that supplies the fisheries and fish farming industry in Norway from Averøy. Standa Prolog AS supplies vacuum pumping systems for salmon, trout and pelagic fish as well as fish/water separators for salmon, trout and pelagic fish. They also supply graders for live fish installed in well boats.

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The Rubb building is 15m wide x 17.5m long with 6m sidewall. Due to high snow load the trusses are spaced at only 2.5 metres. Rubb AS supplied a motorized overhead door measuring 6.5m x 6m. We also supplied a manual door of 4m x 4m. The building is supplied with lighting, and connection to a heater. Due to the corrosive environment Rubb has also supplied an inner liner to ensure that the surface coating that goes on in the building does not damage the galvanizing.

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Lillebø Sand & Transport is a company based in Oltedalen, Ålgård in Gjesdal Kommune in Norway. Rubb Hall AS have supplied a Rubbhall (type NV) which is 12m wide x 26m long with 4m side wall. Rubb supplied two 5m x 5m doors, one in each end. These are standard steel “Rubb doors” which we have designed and manufactured. These are robust folding doors that require very little maintenance. Lilleby Sand & Transport supply large quantities of sand and stone to the concrete industry in Rogaland (South West coast of Norway). They have a further two such facilities in the area. The Rubb building is used to dry sand before it is used for making concrete.

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Rubb has supplied a NV type Rubbhall 15m wide x 26m long with 4m side wall to Alutec AS in Os, just outside Bergen, Norway. Alutec AS is a large producer of floating docks and JAMAX scaffolding for the building industry. The JAMAX system is one of the most used scaffolding systems in Norway. The Rubb building was supplied with 2 4m x 5m overhead doors and one personnel door. Rubb also supplied (5) 400 watt light fittings and (2) Relivent internal fans. This is to reduce any condensation in the building.

This is an NV structure measuring 10m wide x 21m long with 4m side wall. It was installed with a Rubb manufactured 4xm x 4m steel folding door. The customer, Vestnes Innreding AS in Florø needed the structure for the business with shipyards in the area. Vestnes Innreding AS specializes in supplying interior fixed and movable furniture for ships and offices around Norway. With their base in Florø they are near several large shipyards on the West coast of Norway.

Rubb Hall AS supplied a 15m wide x 33m long with 3m side wall structure for Bergen Group’s large offshore oil yard at Hanøytangen just outside Bergen. The Bergen Group is one of Norway’s largest shipyard groups that specializes in offshore supply vessels as well as oil platform related business. The Bergen Group needed a Rubbhall for a fixed period of time and Rubb Hall AS was happy to rent out this structure to provide operations flexibility for this valued customer.

These are pictures of a Rubb THAB shelter measuring 10m wide x 24m long with 3.35m side wall. This shelter was purchased by UNHCR – Damascus, but is was erected by a Rubb crew at Al-Tawil Refugee camp in Iraq. This THAB shelter is a standard relief agency sized structure and it can store up to 500 tonnes of bagged grain. Frode Gjøen our International Sales Director and a Rubb erection supervisor traveled to Iraq to help with the installation of this structure.