The transport sector’s national prize for efforts in the field of intelligent transport systems and services has been awarded to chief scientist Trond Foss (58) of SINTEF Technology and Society....
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New technology that is to monitor astronauts’ “indoor” climate will soon be tested on board the International Space Station (ISS). In the future, similar equipment may help to improve the climate...
The Research Council of Norway announced last week the names of the successful applicants who wish to establish Centres for Research-based Innovation (CRIs). SINTEF did very well in the...
The Trondheim technology company Nacre AS has won a contract to supply its QUIETPRO combined communications terminal and hearing protection system to the US Marines. The contract is worth more...
The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has fined SINTEF Petroleum Research (SPR) NOK 2 million in connection with a...
Technology for providing the world with more farmed fish CREATE aims to maintain and reinforce the strong position of Norwegian equipment suppliers to the aquaculture industry, and to be a...
New technology from SINTEF is capable of removing the worst contaminants from water - purifying it so thoroughly that it becomes ultra pure. SINTEF’s new spin-off company ECOWAT AS is turning...
This week, three Norwegian institutes established a Chilean company for applied aquaculture research. The name of the new company, AVS Chile SA, reflects the three mother institutes that join...
A Norwegian environmental project for China's cement industry could lead to cuts in CO2 that are equivalent to twice Norway's total emissions of greenhouse gases. The cement industry...
Contact Ansattinfo mangler Leading researchers and IT vendors have agreed on the use of a standard for electronic tracing of food. This happened at an international conference organized by SINTEF...
...“If we had been footballers, this would have been the equivalent of a Barcelona super-star joining our team,” says SINTEF research scientist Sigurd Sannan about a recent “transfer” in the world...
In a 1996 Donald Duck comic, inventor Gyro Gearloose has invented a super-machine that sorts cheap scrap and metal poured into a tube, while out of another pipe emerge gold and shiny new coins....
Norwegian scientists are extracting rare earth metals from scrap. Their aim is to prevent scarcity of materials from holding back energy-conservation efforts. Rare earth metals are essential...
The Norwegian company SpinChip aims to help doctors analyse patients’ blood samples on the spot and provide immediate results. Early, correct diagnoses are often of decisive importance in...
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Lobster farming breakthrough
Researchers have recently succeeded in doubling survival rates among lobster larvae under farmed conditions. This could boost populations of a species threatened in the wild. In the early 1950s...
The research institutes SINTEF in Norway, TNO in the Netherlands and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) in France are joining forces in the newly established “Tri4CCS Alliance”, which aims to make...
Norwegian researchers have developed the world's first sensor capable of measuring individual particles in a blood sample. This new innovation could cause a sensation in the medical world. Our...
Lars Sørum appointed new head at SINTEF Petroleum Research Sørum thus becomes leader of one of SINTEF’s eight research institutes and a member of SINTEF’s Group Management. Sørum is...
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1987: Mass production of cod fry
At last, the tiny bearded cod babies can be raised without regard to the whims of nature. Year-old cod fry – hatched and raised at SINTEF’s Aquaculture Centre – here being looked after by...
Statkraft has assigned a new two-year project to SINTEF to carry out research into osmotic power generation. New membrane technology and long-term trials will bring this renewable energy source...