Collaboration reduces energy consumption by a factor of 10: "This means a huge increase in production capacity"

A research project used artificial intelligence to help the SME C.C. Jensen to reduce energy consumption on drying oil filters by a factor of 10, and to reduce production time significantly.

Read more

Startup to take smart chip for designer furniture to market

Three engineering students have developed an ID tag that can be built into designer furniture and link it wirelessly on the internet. This can help prevent theft and receiving stolen goods across national borders.

Read more

Showcasing technologies to de-fossilise agriculture

A large pan-European network of researchers, farmers, companies and knowledge centres has established a platform showcasing hundreds of existing technologies that can help de-fossilise agriculture.

Read more

The agricultural sector isn’t particularly digital. Why is that?

There are both economic and environmental reasons for adopting modern information and communication technologies in livestock farming. But far too few European farms take advantage of this technology. A new EU-funded development project will find out why, and will simultaneously demonstrate these technologies to a number of farmers.

Read more

Smart sensors to provide real time data for optimized operation of the district heating grid

Researchers from the universities in Aarhus and Aalborg are working closely with leading companies to develop intelligent, battery-less sensors that communicate wirelessly to an autonomous cloud-based monitoring system.

Read more

Data generating growth in agro-industry

A new research project is offering help to small and medium-sized Danish agro-companies to work strategically with data, generate growth, and develop new digital business models.

New project offers industry an opportunity to ditch prototypes

A pan-European consortium consisting of vehicle manufacturers, research institutes and suppliers have joined forces to set up a new research and development project that will help industry convert from physical to virtual prototypes.

Intelligent drones to make wind turbines far more efficient

Ice is a major problem for wind turbines in northern climates, costing wind farms millions of Euros annually. A new research project is developing autonomous drones that can automatically locate ice on the blades of turbines. The goal is to energy-optimise wind turbines and to make it possible to site wind turbines further north.

Read more

Breakthrough in separating plastic waste: Machines can distinguish 12 different types of plastic

For the first time, we can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground-breaking and it will increase the rate of recycling of plastics immensely. The technology has already been tested at pilot scale and it will be implemented at an industrial scale in spring 2022.

Read more

New collaboration project will help companies in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality catch the digital tr

A large-scale industrial and academic collaboration project between Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality and Aarhus University is 'a huge opportunity', says the mayor of the municipality, who welcomes the new initiative.

EUR 35 million to solve future challenges for Danish industry

With more than a quarter of a billion DKK, and in close collaboration with more than 50 industrial partners, Danish researchers and experts are now joining forces in the MADE FAST development project, aiming to make Danish production more efficient, flexible and sustainable.