Municipality/ Umeå

Arevo

Arevo offers entirely unique biostimulants and plant nutrition products that simplify cultivation and promote sustainable growth of trees and other plants. arGrow® products are used in forestry for nurturing and planting of mainly pine and spruce, and development is underway to adapt to more plant species in forestry, horticulture and agriculture. Arevo's activities are based on Professor Torgny Näsholm's award-winning research on plant nutrient uptake. The products are based on pioneering knowledge about how plants can use the amino acid arginine as a natural source of nitrogen. Arginine is absorbed quickly by plants, binds tightly to soil particles and is gentle on the micro-life in the soil, which enables strong growth of roots, very low leakage of nitrogen and good soil health. Simple, efficient and climate smart.

Municipality/ Härnösand

Big Akwa

BIG Akwa is an industrial foodtech company that revolutionizes the land-based aquaculture by introducing industrial symbiosis between aquaculture and the existing process industry. BIG Akwa's innovative way of growing fish and implementing other industries turns waste into a resource.

Municipality/ Umeå

BioFuel Region

BioFuel Region was founded in 2003 by regional stakeholders and is a non-profit organization owned by its members. It is financed from membership fees, public entities and project funds. We collaborate with the public sector, the business community as well as research and development. Our mission is to coordinate initiatives undertaken by members located in Sweden's four northernmost counties. BioFuel Region supports its member's efforts to develop the region's raw materials, expertise, business sector and society by promoting the region, building networks, sharing knowledge, shaping opinion and involving young people.

Municipality/ Sundsvall

Biocompost

Biocompost solves the problem with organic waste through automated, smart composting drums. We provide turnkey solutions for upcycling organic waste into resources, a process where big volumes of solid waste are composted in three to seven days. The drum is an in-vessel composting system that allows rapid composting of organic waste from restaurants, grocery stores, households, factories, processing plants, farms, municipalities etc. The Biocompost system exceeds conventional windrow composting by controlling hygienization and eliminating odour, larva, pathogens and seed weeds. The end result, the hygienized compost has no resemblance to the waste it was converted from. Instead, high-quality fertilizer and soil improvement products. Biocompost turns waste streams into value streams.

Municipality/ Umeå

Boreal Orchards

Boreal Orchards is a technology scouting, development, and integration company, active within adaptive agriculture and cellular agriculture sectors. We provide consultancy services, as well as develop and commercialize proprietary technology and know-how based on cutting edge science and long-standing practical experience within the biotech and agroforestry sectors, with a focus on the Boreal region and its specific challenges and growth potential. 

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

C-Green Technology

C-Green is an innovative process engineering company with a complete solution to efficiently convert large amounts of sludge into biocoal. The process is based on high-temperature carbonization (HTC) which basically copies nature's way of breaking down complex organic compounds into coal but takes a few hours instead of millions of years. What’s exceptional with C-Greens process is that it is energized by the sludge itself meaning it has an almost non-existent external energy demand.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

Cass Materials

Cass Materials AB, a start-up company founded in 2022, is based in the High Coast Innovation Park, Örnsköldsvik. With new revolutionary foaming technology, Cass makes the next generation of biobased foams that are lightweight with good mechanical strength and insulation properties for the packaging industry. The foams can be thrown directly into the compost, do not create pollution, or accelerate climate change. Alternatively, the foams can be recycled back into the process, becoming a truly circular product, and further adding to the world’s conversion to a biobased social economy. Cass Materials is joining the global bioeconomy and helping the packaging industry meet the UN’s Goals 13-15 that aim to combat climate change and its impacts along with the conservation and sustainability of our ocean and terrestrial ecosystems.

Municipality/ Skellefteå

Conifer Vision

Conifer Vision is a company with solutions aimed at digitalizing the forest industry, providing analysis and historical database for commercially active forests. Together with forest companies, we build a sustainable future by turning resource data into proven impact on business, people and environment, a true enabler of sustainable forestry. Our clients include forest companies, forest contractors and private forest owners that all face similar challenges, driving the need for improved resource data.

Municipality/ Skellefteå

Eco-Oil

Eco-Oil has developed green petrol for combustion engines. The company was founded in 2007 as a research company to find a sustainable process for producing renewable fuels, moving away from an oil-based economy to a renewable, sustainable future.

Municipality/ Umeå

Ecotype

Ecotype plays an important role in the transition to digital and more actively sustainable forestry. They simplify information from the nature and digitize forestry with the goal of making complex  information easy to understand and accessible to all. The company has created a data platform and system for forest data under the name "skogshubben.se" which helps forest owners and the forest industry to monitor, plan, analyze and control their forest with the help of digital and automatically produced forestry plans. The platform can also be used as a calculator for forest holdings through various calculation modules for carbon sequestration, economic flows, climate reporting and management programs. By combining information from satellite data with research results and information from other public data sources, the platform provides the conditions for an increased level of knowledge and to conduct forestry that benefits both the environment, the economy and high forest growth. The service includes all forest forest properties in Sweden, which means that all approximately 311,000 forest owners can log in and directly receive a digital forestry plan and tools for their forest.

Municipality/ Umeå

ITid

iTid was founded in 2004 in Luleå and since the start, the company has grown organically along the coast of northern Sweden. Today we have five offices where, in addition to Luleå, we also have offices in Sundsvall, Skellefteå, Umeå and Sandviken. We are consultants specializing in planning, digitization / automation, sustainability issues and management of material, production and information flows. Creating a future where we live, with conditions for more jobs and good living conditions, is a mission that permeates everything we do. What assignments we undertake, how the work is carried out, how we shape our culture and how we recruit. What are we really doing? We usually say that we improve flows. We work to improve various parts of the flow itself, such as distribution, purchasing, production planning and control. We also work with support processes and the leadership needed for the flow to work.

Municipality/ Skellefteå

Martinsons

Martinsons is one of Sweden's largest family-owned wood processing companies with deep roots in Västerbotten. Martinsons processes the northern Swedish forest into high-quality wood goods, innovative components for industrial construction and ready-to-use solutions which add value and contribute to an increase in the use of wood. The operations secure the value of the forest through long-term, responsible forestry and efficient processing. The extensive production of sawn goods is powered only by renewable energy and the company's transports run on biofuel. Martinsons is one of Sweden's largest producers of glulam and the Nordic leader in cross-laminated timber, wooden bridges and framework systems. The company has deep roots in Västerbotten and its successes have resulted in a great deal of added value for those living in the region.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

MoRe Research

MoRe Research offers you, with our wide range of instruments, pilot equipments and researchers, the opportunities to develop existing or new processes and products towards an environmentally friendly world.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

Multi Channel Sweden

Multi Channel Sweden is based in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The company has developed an innovative wood chipper that saves raw material and gives a higher output from the pulp process. It produces a more even chip size compared to traditional disc chippers. It can be regulated during operation which means fewer stops. It is easy to install and is service friendly. The pilot plant in Domsjö for testing different sorts of wood means that the wood chipper can be modified based on customer needs. 

Municipality/ Sundsvall

Plantvation

Plantvation develops and sells the cultivation solution of the future. We are specialized in closed environment and automated cultivation technology for forestry seedlings. Our goal is to contribute to an efficient and sustainable production of forestry seedlings and to more high-quality plants being planted to mitigate climate change. Plantvation's main product, the QS GreenBox, pre-cultivates forestry seedlings in multiply layers in a closed system, which enables efficient and sustainable production of seedlings all-year round. To implement the QS GreenBox facilitates a production of up to 14 million seedlings annually on only 100 sqm and the nursery is taken to a new level of modernization, digitalization and efficiency.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

Pulpeye

PulpEye AB is an innovative measurement technology company, focusing on online applications and services for the pulp and paper industry globally. Main products are the PulpEye pulp analyser and the ScanChip chip analyser. Head office is in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. PulpEye products are sold globally through sales offices and sales representatives in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

RGS Nordic

We are a contracting company specialising in treating contaminated land and ground water both ex situ and in situ. As many projects demand treatment offsite, we offer treatment solutions at approximately 15 facilities spread across Sweden. Our remediation projects cover both small and larger sites and the contaminants of concern include dioxins, solvents, hydrocarbons and metals. We have completed more than 200 projects where the contaminants of concern have been treated completely or partially by in situ treatments, and are carrying out remediation projects all over Sweden. We are the market leader in Scandinavia in treating contamination in-situ.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

RISE Processum

RISE Processum supports development of new products based on renewable wood raw material or residual streams from the forest industry. Our goal is to be a test and development site for new innovations and ideas within the biorefinery area. Our competence and pilot equipment make it possible to conduct development projects or produce substances for further development steps. We have access to comprehensive networks within the biorefinery area and are able to connect new ideas with companies and universities within the networks. As a subsidiary of Research Institutes of Sweden we are part of a large research network and can also bring project ideas further to researchers with additional competences.

Municipality/ Örnsköldsvik

SEKAB

SEKAB is one of Europe's leading producers of key enabling technologies for bio-based products and bio-based replacement of fossil diesel fuel. SEKAB is producing and supplying bio-based building blocks for the chemical industry in Europe. In the Biorefinery Demo Plant in Örnsköldsvik we have developed commercial technology platforms for sugar and lignin. SEKAB's technology is ranked among the top, globally and as number one or two for forest by-products. We offer cellulose based bioethanol for technical applications and for the use as biofuel.

Municipality/ Skellefteå

Skellefteå Kraft

Power with its heart in the north. We are one of Sweden's biggest producers of power. With hydropower as a core source, we produce and supply electricity to companies and private individuals all over Sweden. Thanks to our position, we shoulder great responsibility. The power we produce must meet the current energy needs without jeopardising the future's resources. Therefore, we are a driving force behind the development of renewable energy, and our goal is for our own energy production to be 100% sustainable. The development toward a future society that is powered by sustainable energy does not only involve switching from fossil to renewable fuels. We are also driving the development by investing in research in other areas, such as wind power in cold climates. In addition, we are constantly initiating new strategic partnerships and making sustainable investments.

Municipality/ Umeå

SpinChem AB

SpinChem AB is a privately owned limited company that offers simple, stable and resource-efficient technical solutions, aimed at reshaping the way chemical processes and liquid purifications are performed. The core of SpinChem technology is the  ‘rotating bed reactor’ (RBR). This is a modern alternative to stirred tank reactors and columns, used for applications involving heterogeneous reactions. The ingenious design of the SpinChem RBR makes for seamless scalability, and ensures both time and resource efficient workflow. By constant product development and close co-operations with multiple academic institutions, SpinChem offers solutions for many application such as  processing of nuclear waste, water purification and production and development of pharmaceuticals and food ingredients.

Municipality/ Umeå

Vakin

Vakin is owned by Umeå and Vindeln municipality, where the company is responsible for water and sewage treatment, waste collection and recycling. We operate 8 recycling centrals (350 000 visitors, 2015), 18 waterworks, 24 wastewater treatment plants and approximately 130 pumping stations.

Municipality/ Umeå

Vertisà

Cities can become more sustainable by expanding the green zones but the cities’ areas are limited. Vertisà’s module for vertical cultivation has an integrated watering system which uses 20% less water since it only uses the exact amount of water that the plant needs. The module saves water and also has lower costs of installation and maintenance.