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Extraction Technologies Norway AS

Some of the most successful companies in the world today were started in a garage …

… the startup of ETN AS did not make it all the way into the garage, the idea was too mind blowing for a small garage, so it was started in the parking lot between the physics department and the pharmaceutical department at the University campus in Oslo, Norway in 2009.

A picture of Roger Trones and Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard holding a prototype

Two scientists that previously shared laboratory facilities during their graduation met by a coincidence in this parking lot. One of them; Roger Trones had become a businessman, and the other one; Stig Pedersen-Bjergaard had become a professor at the pharmaceutical department. Stig and his colleague prof. Knut Rasmussen had invented and turned into a patent application a technology they called Electromembrane Extraction. They were now in a desperate need for a significant sum of money to support the patent application before it hit a crossroad that would be quite cash consuming. Stig told Roger about this situation and they agreed to meet asap. In the following meeting they reached an agreement and therefore the patent application survived.

The technology that formed the basis for this patent application was not possible to commercialize, and it took another 4 years of trial and error before the technology was at a point where Innovation Norway agreed that it needed its own company. Innovation Norway then helped birth Extraction Technology Norway AS, and the company was set up in October 2013.

Since then, Roger Trones and his coworkers Trond Løvli and Tyge Greibrokk have by extensive research been able to get two patents that form the basis for this launch of a new and revolutionary product range that hopefully will cause a paradigm shift in laboratories around the world. The essence of this technology is turned into the item that Roger (left) and Stig (right) are holding in the picture.