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Jan Vindenes, Kjetting Jan

Jan Vindenes - The Founder

And General Manager

Jan Vindenes is known as Mr. Anchor & Chain after 30 years in the industry. He started working at his fathers local scrap trading company in 1992 and made the company world famous. His Anchor & Chain handbook was printed in 75,000 copies and is in daily use within the whole maritime sector. In Norway he became an legend when he loaded a truck with 25 tons of chains and dumped it at the tax collector as payment for his capital tax.

In 2016 he made the world first Pokemon Go statue and made a video that was published all over the world from REUTERS, REDDIT and hundreds of others. In 2020 he raised a whale monument in his hometown Vindenes, at Sotra, to honor the “plastic whale” that stranded on the beach just 50 meter from his house. 
SKY NEWS made a documentary with Mr Vindenes to focus the problem with plastic in ocean, aired worldwide in 160 countries.

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We are specialists in anchors for ships and the offshore industry, as well as fish farming and aquaculture.

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Find anchor chain in Sotra, Norway, or anywhere in the World for your daily shipping operations.

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Dive into our inventory, check our digital stock list. You will find over 100 different products in stock.

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The Return of the
Anchor & Chain Handbook

The most awaited return in the Anchor and Chain industry will be released at the end of 2024. The classic handbook containing all the information that you will ever need about anchors, chains, deck equipment, buoys and fenders, in your daily work as a maritime industry professional. Brought to you by our founder Jan Vindenes, and Castle Hills.

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TOP STORIES

2 Tones Pokemon Statue

Sotra had a problem: Pokemon Go had forgotten about this island in Norway. We had not a single pokemon stop in kilometers... But the Norwegian businessman Jan Vindenes had the perfect solution in mind for this problem.

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Plastic Whale Monument

The whole Norway was shocked upon the discovery of a dead whale in the coast of Vindenes. The unusual discovery was to find it's cause of death: Plastic. 
Upon the shock of the incident local artist and businessman Jan Vindenes...

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Dumping Chains in the Tax Office

General Manager Jan Vindenes protests against punitive Norwegian fortune tax by intending to pay it in chains. Kjetting Jan drops several tones of chain in the tax office with the corresponding value of his taxes, shocking the whole Norway.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS

  

Anchor & Chain Handbook

We are soon releasing Jan's 2025 Anchor & Chain Handbook.
 
 

New Office

On October 2023 we relocated to our newly built castle in Ågotnes.

Nationality Day Cellebrations

We are preparing special cellebrations regarding Norway's National Day.
 
 

Subsea Cable Laying

We are including in our stock list a new set of equipment we are acquiring.
 
 

OTD Energy

Attending hundreds of visitors at our stand at OTD Energy 2024.

Head Office

NORWAY

Ågotnes, Sotra - Headquarters

 castle@castlehills.no
South Asia

PHILIPINES

San Juan, Manila - Offices

 manila@castlehills.no
Central Asia

CHINA

Shanghai - Office & Workshop

 shanghai@castlehills.no