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Annah (26) from South Africa, currently working at SINTEF, is a living piece of the jigsaw that lies behind a new peace prize award.

A new EU project will provide greener cities through cheaper and simpler solar cell systems.

The Norwegian metal industry must incorporate gas into its processes, if the industry is to reach its target of zero emissions by 2050, scientists at SINTEF and NTNU claim.

A Norwegian interdisciplinary project is aiming to ensure that workplace exposure to microscopic dust particles is kept to a minimum for smelter personnel.

Europe wants to reduce its needs for raw materials and raise the level of recycling of resources in the solar power industry. If this project is successful, greenhouse gas emissions from solar panel manufacture will fall by 25 to 30 per cent.

A dust extraction unit that exploits the laws of nature has made the indoor climate on the ‘shop-floor’ of the Thamshavn smelter in Norway 75 percent cleaner.

Recently SINTEF and UOP, a leading international supplier of catalysts, installed a test system for controlling the gas and liquid feed for in situ catalyst studies using high-energy synchrotron X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne...

A Norwegian invention is reducing by a third the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades.

In the future, you may be able to buy solar cells for your roof from a roll, by the metre.

Ultra-efficient solar cells, based on cheap materials, could be here in a few years.

Rare earth metals are important components in green energy products such as wind turbines and eco-cars. But the scarcity of these metals is worrying the EU.

Aluminium components make vehicles lighter, which reduces fuel consumption. If a Norwegian project is successful, manufacturing them will soon also be less energy-intensive.

Our vast country offers plenty of natural resources, both natural gas and iron ore may very well form a solid basis for sustainable industrial establishments. Today, it is possible to produce iron and other metals, with a much lower CO₂ emissions and...

SINTEF will play a key role in a European Union project that aims to ensure that captured CO₂ can be transported safely and cost-effectively by pipeline from the capture site to the storage site.

A beer can, cars and burned-out tea candles represents only a part of what brings new life to aluminum scrap. Aluminum is a limited resource, but luckily the aluminum has longevity and ability to reuse the metal is good.