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Castle Hills is the newest company of the legendary Jan Vindenes "Kjetting Jan" who is building a 30+ years legacy in industry. After growing independent from the family firm, Castle Hills was born.
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.
We are specialists in anchors for ships and the offshore industry, as well as fish farming and aquaculture.
learn moreFind anchor chain in Sotra, Norway, or anywhere in the World for your daily shipping operations.
learn moreDive into our inventory, check our digital stock list. You will find over 100 different products in stock.
learn moreThe most awaited second edition of Jan's Anchor & Chain Handbook released in January 2025. 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.
OPEN PDFSotra 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.
FULL ARTICLEThe 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...
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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We just released Jan's 2025 Anchor & Chain Handbook.
On October 2023 we relocated to our newly built castle in Ågotnes.
We are preparing special cellebrations regarding Norway's National Day.
We are including in our stock list a new set of equipment we are acquiring.
Attending hundreds of visitors at our stand at OTD Energy 2024.
Talking to Jan is easy, make a call or send an email:
castle@castlehills.no
At 2023 we have opened yet another facility with more than seven offices, another workshop, a warehouse, and square kilometers of yard.
Alternatively, you can download the PDF:
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For over thirty years this team has built a reputation of the most efficient and professional anchor and chain supplier in Norway, and probably in the World, with several hundred projects completed internationally, and appearing in the major global news channels.
NEWSroomWe are specialized on second hand and used maritime equipment. Our equipment is certified and tested.
Our Firm is also a supplier of unused and factory new equipment, specialized in buoys and rubber fenders.
We have completed major global Oil & Gas projects in Norway and Asia Pacific, supplying and installing equipment.
We work with shipbuilders around the World and supply them high quality equipment at record speeds.
