The vision of SFI Manufacturing is to show how sustainable manufacturing in a high-cost country like Norway is possible, and what it takes to improve global competitiveness. The research centre has had a good start-up period. – I am very pleased to...
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 combined solution offers better protection against traffic noise – and can also benefit two-wheeled road-users.
This week, research scientists from eight countries are meeting in Trondheim to discuss the next steps in the campaign against antibiotic resistance. Researchers are currently developing novel drugs against multi-resistant bacteria in order to make...
The project combines expertise of 9 partners in 8 countries to foster nanomedicine innovation and facilitate regulatory approval.
It isn't cars and vehicle traffic that produce the greatest volumes of climate gas emissions – it's our own homes. But new research will soon be putting an end to all that!
To you and me, this might look like a disaster. But Norwegian ski star Petter Northug’s car crash was actually pretty ideal. The materials in the car and guard rail acted just the way they were designed to in order to save the lives of passengers in...
If you want to manufacture single prototypes or small-scale production series, 3D-printed moulds may be the way to go.
Electronics installed in Norwegian oil pipelines have been tested both at sea and in transport vessel reeling simulations. All that now remains is to install them offshore.
The production of oil and gas at temperatures between 40 and 60 degrees below zero means that researchers must advance the development of materials that can withstand these harsh conditions.
Technology used in the crumple zones of cars can avert serious explosions in transformers, believe researchers.
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.
They damage our ability to reproduce, and they pollute the natural environment. Yet chemicals known as hormone mimics can be found in consumer goods. Eventually they end up in our water. But we now have a way of capturing them.