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...
The scientists decided to focus mainly on the direct costs and the costs caused by loss of life and illness/injury’. Photo: Work: SINTEF was commissioned by the Norwegian Labour Inspection...
Morten Dalsmo (47) has been appointed as the new Executive Vice President at SINTEF ICT. Dalsmo has almost 20 years of experience working in R&D, delivery and sales of advanced automation and...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN estimates that a third of all food produced on the planet is wasted. This isn’t simply just an economic or ethical problem, but also causes major...
The 5th International Maritime-Port Technology and Development Conference or MTEC 2017 will be held from 26 to 28 Apr 2017 in Singapore. MTEC is conference series currently held alternately...
At Singapore Maritime Week 2016, MARINTEK proposed the term "Shipping 4.0" to describe the rapidly increasing digitalization and automation in merchant shipping and to link it to similar...
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...
What measures will encourage more people to buy electric cars in Norway? The advice from researchers is for the country to continue combining national excise exemptions with instruments that...
Welcome to the 6th Conference on Learning Factories, arranged by NTNU Gjøvik and SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing, the 29th and 30th of June at Gjøvik. The conference is sponsored...
Researchers are attempting to improve the control tower software system using mathematics and optimisation techniques. Traffic controllers receive a constant stream of data, and they need to be...
This is the story of the norwegian company GasSecure who made the very first wireless gas detector. Foto: Geir Mogen. The idea behind GasSecure was to develop the world’s first battery-powered,...
The EcoGrid EU project, an energy-market concept empowering households to manage renewables, wins one of the EU Sustainable Energy Awards 2016. EcoGrid wins the Consumers prize, one of three...
Eli Aamot is appointed as the new Executive Vice-President at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry. Eli Aamot comes to us from Statoil and her position as Manager Plant Integrity for the Heidrun field....
Unni Steinsmo has notified the SINTEF Board that she wishes to resign her position as CEO on reaching her 62nd birthday in 2016. Unni Steinsmo has held the position of CEO at SINTEF since 2004....
..." If the cable itself had adequate fire protection, it would revolutionize this market. SP Brand Engineering (SPBE) and SINTEF Energy have a "hot" cooperation. SPBE start a gas fire...
..." The conference participants seemed to agree that CCS may be deployed tomorrow – if there is will to do so. The CLIMIT Summit 2015 took place 24–25 February in Oslo. CLIMIT is the Norwegian...
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 German company Dräger has acquired the SINTEF spin-off GasSecure for NOK 500 million. GasSecure was founded in 2008 based on technology developed by SINTEF. The company has developed the...
Professor Vincent Eijsink, NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), received this year’s Bioenergy Innovation Award under “CenBio day” 17 to 19 March 2015. Eijsink receives the price for his...
Researcher Jørgen Skancke at the base of the tower basin. The nozzle is used to simulate an uncontrolled oil discharge when the six-metre high tank is filled with water. Engineer Frode...