History of the HRC
Already in 1906, the company started its path on experimental testing with the first test station located by the stream running through Kristinehamn.
- In 1942, only five years after starting the production of controllable pitch propellers, the first cavitation tunnel for propellers was constructed. At the time, some ten cavitation tunnels existed in the world, but this one was the first in Scandinavia.
- The new marine laboratory, opened in 1971, is today called Hydrodynamic Research Centre (HRC) and serves as a hydrodynamic centre of excellence supporting any customer or business unit across Kongsberg Maritime.
