According to SINTEF, enough concrete constructions are built each year worldwide to exceed the height of Mount Everest (equivalent to a 10,000 metre-high concrete block covering one square...
Astaxanthin is the drug we're trying to produce as efficiently as possible, explains SINTEF researcher Matilde Chauton. Astaxanthin is an antioxidant with multiple healing properties, and helps...
Blocked oil and gas pipelines is one of the industry’s big anxieties, because of loss of revenue. It has therefore been important to find solutions for oil and gas pipelines to avoid such...
The enormous CO2 storage potential of the North Sea offers great industrial development possibilities. Norway could be lucky again if we grasp this opportunity, believes SINTEF’s Director of...
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...
An outstretched hand gives me a firm welcome. Then it pulls on a big blue glove and dives into a brown paper bag. A second later, chief scientist Aud Wærnes has a fistful of stuff that could...
The researcher at SINTEF ICT looks out across a planned road project. Even though there are no cars yet, he can still hear the traffic. Photo: SINTEF ICT. Listen to the sounds of passing cars...
Ninety-nine per cent of planet Earth has a temperature in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius as a result of residual heat inherited from the Earth's primordial origins and the breakdown of...
Unni Steinsmo, President of the SINTEF Group, has been elected to membership of the European Research Area Board (ERAB). In April 2008, the EU commission announced the names of the members of the...
Petroleum activities and marine transport in the Arctic demand a high level of know-how and efficient contingency planning. Around twenty international scientists spent the month of May in...
Executive Vice President Ernst Kristiansen has been appointed interim director of SINTEF Building and Infrastructure. Kristiansen can point to long experience within SINTEF's management....
SINTEF produced good scientific and financial results in 2008. The result for the year was NOK 137 million. Our repeatedly good results have enabled us to make new investments in laboratories and...
Oddvar Eide has been appointed as SINTEF President for MARINTEK Oddvar Eide can already look back on a long career in research and management in SINTEF and MARINTEK. He started out as a research...
The EU’s SMARTIEHS project will enable MEMS structures to be tested one hundred times as fast as they can today. This will mean cheaper and more reliable electronic equipment for people you us....
Kallak Torvstrøfabrikk in Trøgstad in eastern Norway has developed a peat moss mixture with unusually good absorbent qualities. The material could be a useful tool for clearing up oil-spills...
Petrobras and SINTEF have signed a General Research and Development agreement.The agreement was signed on 26th of August, as a part of the Innovation Norway Brazil Day at ONS in Stavanger,...
The EU project SOCIETIES intends to revolutionise the way we work during major crises – by exploiting social media. Wireless technology has enabled us to go online ─ not only with our office...
Det har vært en økning både i elektive opphold og opphold innenfor øyeblikkelig hjelp. I 2005 var det totalt 49 500 flere elektive opphold enn i 2004, noe som innebærer en...
Om man splitter opp elektive opphold og øyeblikkelig hjelp i kirurgiske og medisinske DRG’er, er økningen i elektive opphold større innenfor medisinske enn kirurgiske DRG’er. Dette...
...Årsverk(1) per 1 000 innbyggere etter personellkategori og foretaksområde. 2004* og 2005. Korrigert for pasientflyt, kjønns- og aldersstandardisert. Somatiske sykehus(2)....