nornnorn wins grant from NSTDA to ‘develop water extraction technology for polyurethane foam upcycling process’

nornnorn has won an £80,000-grant from Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) to develop a sustainable technology to extract and refine water from our polyurethane foam upcycling process. 

The latest addition to our effort to develop an eco-friendly and economically viable technology to upcycle polyurethane foam waste from used mattresses that has been funded partially by an £80,000-grant from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) through the Engineering X Transforming Systems through Partnership programme, the project will be conducted by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. 

The grant is funded by Thailand’s Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO) through the Programme Management Unit for Competitiveness (PMU C) and forms a part of the country’s strategy to develop the economy with the bio-circular-green (BCG) economic model.