John Olav Ottesen
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John Olav Ottesen, Managing Director and founder of Dafo Fomtec AB, is a 53 year-old Norwegian with 30 years’ experience in the foam industry, spending 10 years at Tyco in various positions from the early 1990s until starting up Fomtec in Sweden in 2001. He caught the foam
bug from day one and has been a student of all aspects of foam and foam systems from that day.

The Fomtec ‘Enviro Programme’ continues and we are well over 1,500 fire tests now.
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