Bjørn Thorsen A/S is a growing distributor aiming to achieve long-term sustainability and profitability, while anchored on competitive distribution of specialty raw materials with additional customized own product solutions. Our core activity is distribution of raw materials from leading chemical manufactures to customers in different industries.
Today, we are a pan-European distributor with a wide distribution portfolio, different from country to country, depending on distribution agreements. Our central European warehouse is in Netherlands, while other local warehouses are strategically located in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom, France, the United States and China.
We are known in the market for our capabilities to develop new market segments and opportunities for our principals. This is done by excellent market research, providing customized solutions and technical support.
To support our distribution business and sustainable growth, we offer customized solutions via our brands Customized Compound Solutions (CCS), Nordic Grafting Company (NGC) and Digital Serigraphic Technologies (DST), as well as R&D expertise and technical support of our labs and production facilities in France and Denmark.
They complement our distribution offering with their own ranges of customized alloys, compounds, reactive polymers, dispersions, and innovative solutions for traditional screenprinting and digital hybrid systems. This gives us additional technical competences and new opportunities to create more sustainable products for our customers.
Our company employs approx. 60 people and has its head office in Hellerup, a part of greater Copenhagen Area, Denmark. The company has its head office in an old and protected house in Copenhagen area, a true city landmark to this day – Søholm. Click here to read more about the building and its history.
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At Bjørn Thorsen, we believe that our employees are our greatest asset. Therefore, we strive to provide an open, inclusive, and inspiring corporate culture, as well as good working conditions. We are a diverse company with different talents, backgrounds, and expertise, and believe that embracing diversity and a global mindset is the key to success.
We want to create a working environment where everyone is heard. A place where people can be themselves, enjoy what they do, are allowed to voice their opinions, and are pushed to continuously learn and develop new skills. To achieve this, we encourage our employees to get involved, ask questions, and to give and accept feedback. We prosper as a company when our employees have fun at work and develop through the great responsibilities shared with them. Mutual trust, open communication, teamwork and integrity are some of the elements of our company culture.
Our workplace culture is reinforced in Bjørn Thorsen’s Employee Code of Conduct, which provides guidance on what we stand for as a company, sets standards for our behavior and governs how each employee engages with suppliers, customers, colleagues, authorities, and other stakeholders.
Sustainable practices are an important part in the daily business operations of Bjørn Thorsen. Having full management attention, this key function has become an important part in building an environmentally and economically sustainable cooperation. Our sustainability agenda comprises not only the distribution business, but also our manufacturing affiliates and our joint ventures. Our Sustainability Report for financial year 2023/24 is available here.
For us, sustainability is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the development, pricing, marketing and distribution of our products and services, while ensuring that customer needs are met and organizational goals are reached without any adverse impacts on environment, people and society. We strive to act with due diligence!
Our company is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certified. To read more about our focus on Quality & Environment, click here.
