Sustainable packaging solutions and safe food protection
Norner has long experience working with materials and developments for both rigid and flexible plastic packaging industry. We have the competence, equipment and capability required to be your technology partner in material selection, testing and product development.
Our strategic advisory team helps clients to be successful in strategic choices, to create added value, to achieve a superior cost position and to set up innovation organization and tools.
Norner key services in strategic advisory
- Business & Market Strategy
- Creating Added Value
- Cost reduction programs
- Innovation – Organisation & tools
Norner has a team with industrial experience and can support our customers in the field of packaging with a variety of innovation projects.
- Technology developments
- New packaging development
- New packaging functionality
- Recyclable packaging
- Polymer materials for safer packaging
- Shelf life prediction and improvement
- Quality improvement
- Technical studies and feasibility projects
- Multi-client funded research projects
Funding support
Norner has unique funding expertise and broad experience from both national and EU research programs relevant for the energy sector. Norner is listed in The Research Council of Norway (RCN) overview of approved institutes.
Read more about funding support in Norner.
Norner provides high expertise in material and analytical testing, evaluation of physical and chemical properties, food safety and migration, critical packaging functionality, barrier properties as well as plastic extrusion and moulding of packaging prototypes.
Our ISO 9001 certified laboratory ensures high quality testing with focus on health, environment and safety (HSE).
Some key laboratory testing and analytical services for packaging
- Performance testing of films and flexible packaging
- Performance testing of bottles and containers
- Caps & Closure testing
- Migration testing and food contact compliance
- Barrier testing
- Recyclability testing
- Failure analysis
- Mechanical testing
- Material characterization
- Polymer and additive analysis
Norner key service in consumer goods
- Packaging development and improvement projects in our processing laboratory
- Comprehensive testing laboratory for consumer, food and medical packaging
- Development of sustainable solutions with biobased or recycled materials
Norner is a member of: European Plastic Pact, CEFLEX and Emballasjeforeningen.
Norner Barrier Calculator
The advanced OTR, WVTR and CO2TR Barrier Calculators with several features where you can select between different geometries; film, cup, bottle and cuboid. This enables you to simulate your target package design. The calculating models gives you estimates of the O2 (oxygen), Water Vapour and CO2 Transmission Rate of various plastics packaging material like PP, PE, PET, PA and EVOH.
- Free version - all four calculators are offered.
- Payable version - include several features.
Cases
The complexity of the structures makes it nearly impossible to recycle these films, leading to the growing amount of multi-layer packaging waste.
Blow moulding has an untapped potential for using recycled materials. How can we manufacture bottles with a high percentage of recycled materials that are strong, durable, and fit for further recycling?
LYCRO has an ambition to significantly improve the sustainability for their returnable crates business and created the RE-CReATE project.
Sustainability has always been a key aspect of packaging, but the importance has never been higher. Our barrier online calculator can be a very useful tool in development and implementation of more sustainable solutions.
Food and food safety are high on the agenda, and for food packaging more knowledge about migrating chemical substances, both intentionally added (IAS) and non-intentionally added (NIAS) is needed.
We evaluated the recycled materials in various end applications. One important segment is caps for household chemicals, cosmetics and personal care containers.
Norner is engaged in several projects for development of monomaterial PE laminates for food and non-food packaging applications.
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.
We strengthen our footprint of polymer R&D services.
Norner’s barrier calculator has become a popular tool among professionals in the packaging industry.
A root cause inspection, troubleshooting and development tool.
Green solutions from inexpensive materials with improved sustainability.
