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Price pressure leads to “cowboy” contracts and poor working conditions in service jobs in the construction and cleaning industries.

You go to bed with white, freshly painted walls and wake the next morning to find the living room black with soot!

New trawling technology can reduce fuel use by 20% and save the environment from large amounts of emissions. But better equipment will also provide opportunities to increase the annual shrimp catch with a potential added value of 625 MNOK annually.

Just before Christmas, 80 workers on the oil drilling platforms in the North Sea started their shifts by putting an intelligent plug in their ears.

The project has developed a solution to log and accumulate operational data from vessels at sea. The solution is partly based on the CDP bus, developed by the Norwegian company ICD. The CDP bus is Ethernet based and able to communicate with a...

Gender balance in the labour market has improved little in Norway in the course of the past 20 years, according to a new survey. A growing proportion of female managers is one of the few bright spots in the picture.

Pink and insidious: a tiny animal has become an expensive neighbour for fish farmers. Now scientists intend to make it hot for the little pest, and without using toxic chemicals.

A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful.

A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful.

Six years ago, "Regatta Fisherman" - a oilskins with floating element - was developed. It has so far saved more than ten fishermen from dying.

A small creature from the animal kingdom has become an expensive neighbor for fish farmers. Now researchers will make it hot for the small - thing-without using toxic chemicals.

The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools needed to produce geothermal heat from the earth.

As part of the ImproVEDO project, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture are developing software for the design of energy efficient ships.

The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools needed to produce geothermal heat from the earth.

For three years, the company MMC Tendos has collaborated with SINTEF on an improved pumping system for landing of herring and mackerel from purse seine. The result is a purse seiner that sucks herring and mackerel on board gently.