Create opportunities for small to medium enterprise (SME) in Norrköping to work with circular economy, overcoming the obstacles with not knowing how to benefit for other SME to create circular production chains.

A project at Linköping University.

Sofidel Sweden AB is a successful company in the process industry, and it manufactures tissues, which then converts into a finished consumer product on-site or at other converters in Sweden and on the international market. Sofidel wants to reduce sharply - or exclude entirely - its use of plastic regarding its secondary packaging.

Träullit, founded in 1946, manufactures wood wool panels and slabs, and now also exterior walls. Wood wool spruce is a fantastic material sprung from our nature, joined with pure cement. Träullit is a fantastic product with many excellent properties and with great development potential. The company wants to think more circularly. Today the company got lots of waste material when cutting the wood wool blocks. What can we use the waste for?

The County Administrative Board (CAB) is the national government representative office in the county of Östergötland. CAB has a broad area of responsibility concerning environment, nature, competence sourcing, the business community, social development, animal protection, infrastructure, and housing. CAB is leading a collaborative project called REHAZE to address the unsustainable handling of waste and the continuous leakage of hazardous substances from landfills into the Baltic Sea.

About 70 years ago, humans created plastics, which radically transformed how we live and consume. Today, plastic waste is one of the biggest challenges we face.

The company uses mycelium, together with waste from agriculture, to grow materials that replace plastic. By using mycelium, the company can grow better materials with fantastic properties such as low weight, 100% compostable, fireproof and insulating. The company now wants help to find new applications of this material and technique.

Henmark Apparel AB develop functional clothing focusing on comfort, quality and longevity. Using digital sales channels, the company can cut out the expensive middleman and instead spend more money on fabrics, components and the people who sew the products. Henmark needs help to create enough new value (for business, manager, employee) to motivate customers to use their digital sales channels. It will require new digital tools, new partnerships and new distribution models. Or is there more?

Since 2011 Pantamera has been collaborating with ski resorts and camping sites. Today's environmentally conscious guests want it to be easy to leave the can or bottle in the right place, for example, before their departures, when they leave their cottages or apartments. Unfortunately, quite much of the deposit is stolen from the deposit igloos. We need to find a secure theft proof deposit container and it has to be made for the outdoor environment.

CNETO, centre for new energy technology, in Oskarshamn has a direction towards the nuclear fuel cycle but is open to all kinds of new technologies that provide solutions towards a more sustainable society. We know that algae have the capacity to reduce significantly CO2 from the atmosphere and at the same time provide food and be an innovative alternative to meat and animal fodder. Therefore we are interested in investigating how we can cultivate algae in the Baltic Sea.

Stillströms Industrifärg AB is a vendor & distributor of industrial paint and accessories to professional customers and wish to expand their proactive work and create a competitive advantage. The goal is to improve upon our communications to provide guidance and assistance for our clients with documentation, knowledge and new services, and in such a way create new markets and at the same time consolidate a non-interchangeable role as a partner within industrial paint and material treatment.