Author: anna@crcom.se

New EU funded collaboration!

2024-02-26

CR and Nordic Substrate Solutions together with Dr. Christian Hultenberg have been approved funding for the project “Biodegradable plant substrate for hydroponic cultivation of leafy greens”. In the project we will develop a biodegradable binder that will hold together a growth substrate, such as peat or coir, for the time required to cultivate and thereafter biodegrade. The scientific yet practical approach of the CR team combined with the process and engineering focus of NSS and outside perspective of Hulteberg are all key. Just like rebar and cement, when different things are bound together they can get stronger. In this work…

Welcome Carmina!

2024-01-30

We are so happy to have welcomed Carmina Garcia Dominguez to CR in January, the best way to start a new year! We want to take the opportunity to introduce her to all of you. With Carmina, we expand the team with an outspoken and curious problem solver who likes to learn and use many aspects of chemistry and a variety of tools. Her background in analytical, electrochemical and synthetic chemistry is very broad but most importantly her way of approaching new areas and new problems was one of the reasons we didn’t hesitate to bring her on-board! Already, Carmina…

P&G Americas Best Partner Award 2023

2023-12-11

We have been awarded Best Partner 2023 by Procter & Gamble Connect + Development Americas and we are incredibly proud! Can there be anything better than this for a service organisation, for people who want to be a Strategic Science Partner, for us who want to be able to contribute with all we know and understand to make better decisions? No, there cannot be anything better. For 15 years, we have worked together, learned and developed as partners should. Without this partnership, the challenges and the mutual trust, we would not be the company and the team we are today….

Welcome Enamul!

2023-05-29

Four months in we finally have his picture taken and can tell the world properly! Enamul Mojumdar joined CR in February 2023 and we want to take the opportunity to introduce him to all of you. With Enamul, we have yet another incredible person who we trust loves a challenge and to learn from them and others. With Enamul, we also expand from physics and chemistry a bit closer to the living – to bio physical chemistry… Already, Enamul has contributed with his experience in lipid colloidal chemistry and NMR. He has joined in projects related to skin feel, skin hydration and…

Welcome Mimmi!

2023-03-04

She has been with us for four months already, we are so very happy and lucky! Mimmi Eriksson joined CR in September 2022 and we want to take the opportunity to introduce her to all of you. With Mimmi, we have yet another fantastic person who we can trust takes on new challenges and new methodologies with both curiosity and grit, an open as well as critical mind set. Just the complex combination we work to maintain. Already, Mimmi has contributed with her experience in #surface characterisation using #AFM and Tribology methods. She has also been part of a #food product development project as well as our #PFAS reduction project….

Reflections from SEPAWA 2022

2022-10-31

If there were ever a place where “greenwashing” could be an appropriate term it would of course be where the subject is laundry and cleaning… but… no… the vast majority of companies and individuals at Sepawa are really trying to “wash green”. Not only is there an effort to substantiate claims but more importantly, the terms are discussed. What do the brand owners really mean by “sustainable” and what does it mean to the ingredient providers, in charge of their supply? The importance of the complete picture, of the material and energy use from origin to use, waste and re-use,…

Welcome Henrik!

2022-03-15

We are happy to announce that we’ve been happy for a while! Henrik Almqvist joined in December 2021 and not until now have we’ve had time to do the photo-thing and let you all in on the welcoming! We are very happy to have Henrik on board with us. With his experience and expert areas we are strengthening further our analytical chemistry capacity and engineering understanding. At the same time we make a broadening of the discussion possible, towards biotechnology, biorefining and for example more work with ingredients from our forests. Already from the beginning at CR, Henrik got busy…

On the importance of unboxing nucleotides

2021-09-12

Unboxing was a youtube-phenomenon some time ago where we could follow the joy and excitement of fellow humans opening up parcels to find their long-awaited new products. Today, that is so not trending but getting your shot is and selfies are taken with the familiar band-aid on your fellow’s shoulder. What is happening in the body is however a truly fascinating unboxing event. The mRNA molecule, very long and in addition extremely sensitive to the environment in the body needs to be boxed to be delivered, and then unboxed to do its thing. These procedures are state of the art…

Welcome Jonas Carlstedt!

2021-05-25

Here are some great news! Jonas Carlstedt has joined Team CR and we are very happy about this, for obvious reasons! Together with Jonas we will have one additional creative yet critical pair of eyes on what we are doing, making our service even better. He has extensive experience working with various colloidal systems and experimental methods so together we can talk even more about the data, the results and what it all means! During his time in academia, he used several experimental methods such as microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, synchrotron SAXS, NMR, DSC and he has a prepared a number…

Welcome Per Viklund!

2020-05-28

We at CR have just waited for the possibility to hook up with Per Viklund in a more solid way. For some time Per has been part of our Greater CR and helped us in recent projects. But both parties wanted more and from March 2020 he is 100% part of Core CR and that is really some great news not only for us but for our clients and partners! Per Viklund has a background as material scientist (PhD from Lund University) that he has explored within several different companies, just like CR! This means that Per has leveraged his…

CR 15 years – first five baby steps

2020-05-26

This week, we were going to celebrate with many of you the wonderful fact that CR has been around for 15 years. We will celebrate but want to hug and be close, so we wait a bit… while waiting, we want to highlight some of what has happened throughout those 15 years in three 5-year captures: From Advanced Analysis, via the Scientific Rescue Team to the Strategic Science Partner we are today. Let us just first set the stage for when the first baby steps were taken… 2005, when we were managing with all our registration papers for the company,…

Daedalus and the buckyball

2018-04-16

Graphene, nanotubes and other novel carbon-based materials are all in vogue nowadays, but it is an interesting exercise to take a step back and reminisce the true origins and underpinnings of the carbon craze that currently permeates chemistry and material science. This exercise touches on the soccer world cup (to commence June 14th in Moscow), and also allows us to honour the memory of a truly remarkable scientist, whose existence seems completely unknown to all but a select, admiring few. Let’s kick off with the sports connection (pun intended). A soccer ball is constructed by stitching together a total of 32…