Author: Novum

Cellulose, as a renewable, non-toxic, non-allergic, and abundant forest material, has several benefits to be utilized in a wide range of applications. Currently, cellulose is mostly used in large-scale applications such as paper, packaging and textile. However, the current industrial technologies ha...

We are proud to announce that on November 14th, 2019 we have hosted our first NOVUM Project Industrial Workshop in Paris (France) and received a group of stakeholders who were interested to participate in the session. Heli Kangas, Technology Manager at VTT, was in charge of presenting the project ge...

On November 13th, 2019 we celebrated our NOVUM Project consortium meeting in Paris (France) at the Vertech Group premises. Each partner has presented their own work package advancement with the aim of achieving the final goal of improving the manufacturing process of electrical insulation components...

The objective of this Open Technology Platform is to raise interest in the cellulose-based materials and the processing technologies developed in NOVUM in other potential stakeholders or the general public. Cellulose is a common raw material in electrical insulation components. However, the producti...

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On July, 2 ABB, NOVUM’s project partner responsible for prototyping, hosted at their facilities in Krakow, Poland a workshop that explored the technical, operational, circular business model and legislative and standards barriers for the project. Exergy, the partner in charge of the project’s ex...

The consortium celebrated month’s 18 meeting in Coventry (United Kingdom) on March 26 and 27. The progress on the project work packages was discussed and next actions to be taken were also established....

The Novum project was presented to the attendees of the 10th European Networking event, celebrated in Düsseldorf (Germany) on February 14 and 15....

The 6-month face-to-face consortium meeting took place in Krakow, Poland from 25-26 April, hosted by ABB Corporate Research. A first-year review is already scheduled for the first half of November in Brussels but looking back now at the project progress currently underway shows an engaged and enthus...