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What we do

Stena New Ventures

Bringing ideas to life

Stena New Ventures finds and develops ventures of the future to drive sustainable development and transformation by offering leading material, product, and service solutions.

The mission of Stena New Ventures is to identify and develop new business opportunities based on ideas both within Stena Metall and through collaboration with, or investment in, start-up companies. This may be a customer need that requires a new approach, or a completely new business concept. Stena New Ventures actively seeks Nordic start-up companies with a clear potential for significant growth that have potential for a new position in a defined market segment, and will benefit from Stena Metall’s core competences. To identify business opportunities, networking and engaging with others is important for Stena New Ventures. Incubators at different universities are another source of opportunities for collaboration with start-ups.

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Fostering innovation - from start-up to scale-up

Examples of companies that started in Stena New Ventures, and have developed into their own operations, are HaloSep and BatteryLoop.

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Investing in promising new businesses

Stena New Ventures is always on the lookout for promising start-ups that have the potential to make a significant impact on the industry. Believing that by investing in these companies, Stena New Ventures can not only help them grow but also be a part of their journey forward. Here are examples of start-ups Stena New Ventures has invested in:

Papershell

Building paper back into a more resistant version of wood to replace plastic and other materials.

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Spec-Imaging

Spectrophotometric measurements reinvented to handle turbid fluids.

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Atium

Develops innovative water treatment technologies to reduce global pollution and combat climate change.

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Circular Initiative 2023

Scaling up – For a new tomorrow

Circular Initiative was the sustainability event of the year, where pioneering leaders gathered to exchange ideas, showcase projects, and establish collaborations. The theme that year was Scaling Up – realizing bold ideas and promising prototypes. It was time to take the leap into the loop!

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