Plastics are strong, durable, lightweight, energy efficient and low-cost materials and represents wide family of polymers. These are probably among the smartest inventions in mankind.
However, due to their properties, plastics have become a obvious and popular choice for many applications including packaging, electronics, appliances, healthcare, automotive and infrastructure.
The huge consumption of plastics creates therefore challenges with waste management, littering and use of fossil resources.
Norner is engaged in projects and offer a range of relevant services which can help solving these challenges and improving the solutions.
We are committed to work locally and globally and always search for the best solutions in our projects to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Norner has developed an extensive competence in Biopolymers, Compostable plastics and other Green chemistry.
Bioplastics can be either biobased and/or compostable. Some materials can be both produced from bio-based raw materials and be bio-degradable like polylactic acid (PLA). Others can be from bio-sourced raw materials like BioPE but are not biodegradable.
There are several polymers available in these categories and Norner have practical experience with several of these through our client and funded projects.
Our high focus brings substantial value and increased speed to customer’s bioplastics projects.
Chemical recycling is any process by which a polymer is chemically reduced to its original monomer form so that it can eventually be processed (re-polymerized) and remade into new plastic materials that go on to be new plastic products.
Norner is active in studies and R&D into pyrolysis process and technology.
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National and international media have covered the problem of marine and plastic litter in depth during the past few years and this have, together with a high attention from the authorities, created the high awareness in the public. Norwegians are nature-loving and it gives us a practical meaning of doing something useful when we participate in solving one of the fastest growing environmental issues we have internationally. It’s a huge task to reverse the situation with 8 million tons of plastic ending up in the sea every year.
Plastic and other items generally enter the environment as a result of irresponsible behaviour or a lack of appropriate infrastructure. However, we must provide people with the opportunity to do the right thing – we need developed waste infrastructures that are easily available.
Plastics recycling is including several steps and operation in the value chain of waste management to ready recycled material. The waste must be collected, sorted, grinded, washed and decontaminated as well as possible before entering the melt extrusion and filtering to produce a homogenised new granulate.
Norner have facilities for simulating the recycling extrusion process and devolatilising of the material as well as dedicated small scale extruder for quality assessments. The produced material can be further tested and assessed in our processing pilots, chemical analysis, migration and odour as well as physical properties.
Read more about our Recycling pilot centre
The global interest in making polymers from carbon dioxide (CO2) is huge due to the utilisation of a waste product that is harming the climate.
Norner has during the last years been active in the research of polymerisation of CO2 to form polymer. The development has resulted in a basic design of a new continuous process, including a simplified purification step.
The further plan is to find the right consortium to build a small scale pilot for production of polycarbonates and further to commercialize the technology. The projects have focused on several critical aspects including additivation, catalyst, process efficiency and application testing. Norner has a team of experts as well as polymerization facilities in-house for further developing the technology.
For more information contact: Siw Bodil Fredriksen, Advisor
1. Novel solventless purification of poly(propylene carbonate). Tailoring the composition and thermal properties of PPC. Carlos Barreto, Eddy Hansen, Siw Fredriksen, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Volume 97, Issue 6.June 2012.
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Norner provides sustainable solutions, consultancy, verifications and testing of polymer materials for the renewable energy industry.
Polymers play an important role in developments within the renewable energy sector. Use of specific polymers in projects within on-and offshore wind power, floating solar power, new battery technology, hydrogen storage, production and transport, super critical CO2 storage and transport and even production of bio-based fuels may contribute to a longer service life in extreme environments and more sustainable products.
Do you have any questions about polymers in your renewable energy project, please contact us.
For the 5th year in a row Norner arranged (our) Beach Cleaning Campaign. Previous years we have managed to remove about half a ton of litter during an evening’s effort in the spring with our employees, local customers and business partners. This year we wanted to achieve more and at the same time do it safe where necessary Covid-19 measures were taken.
Removing hazardous substances, valorizing side streams and applying ecodesign principles on material design to improve the sustainability and recycling rates of WEEE, ELV and C&DW waste plastics.
We encourage our customers, partners, friends and families to participate as individuals and in small groups to the clean-up campaign.
Explore how Norner researchers take action in future green packaging solutions.
Norner believes that we all can be a part of the solution to stop marine littering. Our beach cleaning actions is one of our ways to demonstrate this.
We can all contribute to fight marine littering. Norner supports and cooperates with S/Y Fairwinds on «Arctic Expedition 2018».
EU has defined new and ambitious targets for circular economy and recycling of materials. This includes packaging materials.
We can all contribute to fight marine littering.
More that 30 enthusiastic Norner experts took part in the event.
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