NorECs was founded in 2001 by Truls Norby and Yngve Larring of the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo. The company develops equipment based on more than 20 years of research and experience in the group of professors Per Kofstad (1929-1997) and Truls Norby. The equipment is still being developed and manufactured in close collaboration with the research group and the workshops at the Department of Chemistry.
Presently, NorECs' main product is the ProboStat™ high temperature sample holder system for electrical and other charact
erization at high temperatures. It is delivered to and in use world-wide in numerous high-ranking institutions like NASA, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Exxon or universities like Stanford, Washington, Barcelona or Oslo, many of which involved in SOFC research.
Each unit is furnished to fit the customer's methods and conditions of investigation.
New auxiliary products for temperature and atmosphere control are being developed, and also extensions of the sample holder and temperature control to meet the special demands of investigation of dielectrica, and intermediate temperature fuel cell components, membrane materials, and liquids.
Over time NorECs aims to commercialize a broader range of scientific equipment, materials, and applications derived from Norwegian academic research. Focus will be on electroceramics, their properties, characterization, and applications at high temperatures.
NorECs Norwegian Electro Ceramics AS is a Limited Company. 15% of the shares are held by Oslo Innovation Centre AS, in turn partly owned by the University of Oslo. The remaining shares are held by private persons.
Norwegian organization and VAT registration number: NO 983 842 518 MVA.
NorECs is presently managed by Ingvild Lorentzen (M.Sc.).
More than 120 ProboStats are now delivered since 2001, the largest share to universities, institutes, and industries in the USA and in Japan, while many are in use also in Oslo. The remaining sales are distributed over a number of countries.
