Tofte is a village in the Asker municipality in Viken, Norway. It is situated on the Hurum Peninsula (Hurumhalvøya) on the Oslo Fjord. It is the second largest settlement in Hurum. Before 1897, there were no densely populated areas on Tofte. At Sagene, a marble grinding mill was built by the Sagene River in the mid-1890s.In 1896, Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen (1855-1936) bought property with associated forest properties, with the intention of building a cellulose factory. The factory was built in 1897, and put into operation in 1899. In 1907, Anthon Nilsen also founded a cellulose factory at Sagene, a couple of kilometers southwest of the factory at Tofte.These two factories, Tofte Cellulosefabrik AS and Hurum Fabriker AS, became the center of employment during the following century.