Norner

Norner is a global market leader of Industrial R&D services in polymers - by exploring opportunities and discovering sustainable solutions. Norner contributes to a variety of clients needing polymer expertise within consumer goods, packaging, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure to petrochemical raw materials production industry.

Norner services in consumer goods regarding packaging development and improvement projects in the processing laboratory, comprehensive testing laboratory for consumer, food, and medical packaging, and the development of sustainable solutions with biobased or recycled materials.

Norner works with materials and developments for both the rigid and flexible plastic packaging industries. This includes new packaging development and functionality, recyclable packaging, polymer materials for safer packaging, shelf life prediction and improvement, quality improvement, and research projects.

Norner has key services in medical devices, personal protective equipment, pharmaceuticals, and packaging.

This involves choice of plastic material to meet the intended function and quality, testing mechanical and chemical strength, shelf-life protocols, stress testing, failure analysis, and sustainable solutions and development of materials.

Norner works with product development and testing for the energy industry, providing sustainable solutions, consultancy, verifications and testing of polymer materials. Norner supports clients in selecting and developing sustainable materials for the future.

Norner works with plastic materials for building and infrastructure applications, having competence, equipment, and capability for technology partners in material selection, testing, and product development.

Norner publishes more than 50 research articles based on their findings regarding polymerization and the sciences of their field. Some of the latest researches on Norner's website are "Application studies of recycled materials in Caps & Closures", and "Recycled Poly (Ethylene Terephthalate) Nanocomposites: Rheology, Thermal and Mechanical Properties".

For over 40 years in the industry, Norner has been a world-leading polymer R&D center. From gas conversion to polymer modification and polymerization, additives for polymers to the extrusion and end-use of plastics, Norner strives to make a difference for the industry. Norner has a comprehensive scientific laboratory. The company's competence and equipment cover a wide range of key technologies in the polymer and materials industry.

Founded in 2007, the Norwegian Innovation centre of Borealis becomes Norner, including employees, competence, and laboratory assets. After re-structuring, the employees established a fully independent technology partner in the fields of gas conversion, material technology, plastic solutions, plastic additives, and scientific lab services. Norner utilizes the inherited assets to create new ways towards a broader market.

Norner grows the business to more than 700 clients, performs projects in 50 countries, and is recognized in the market as a leading commercial polymer and plastics solution provider with industrial knowledge based on its values – Confidence – Impact – Imagine – Passion. The company looks forwards to deliver sustainable solutions making a difference, and bring ideas for the future into solutions of today.