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Quality control and hygiene standards
Our production takes place in a clean environment (hygiene and clean rooms up to class 7), and that we were among the first companies in Europe to be certified in accordance with ISO 15378 is proof of our commitment to always deliver the right quality.
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Design and innovation
By combining the most advanced techniques, a well-established project structure, our partners and highly experienced staff, we are able to offer an unrivaled strength when it comes to designing and producing new packaging.
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Building Skills, Shaping Futures
A collaborative program between VTSU and Nolato Vermont is transforming real manufacturing challenges into hands‑on learning opportunities.
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Increased global demand for auto-injectors for Nolato
We’re proud to support better health outcomes through smart, scalable manufacturing.
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Expanding Minds Across Nolato
Through Nolato Academy, 300+ employees across roles and regions have joined our training program to deepen their understanding of injection molding - from polymer behavior to process optimization.
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New technology-new possibilities
With advanced features and multi-layer capabilities, Nolato Lövepac are ready to meet growing customer demand across industries.
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Transforming waste materials into value
At Nolato’s site in Hisings Backa Sweden we’ve launched an in-house regrinding line that converts plastic waste into high-quality recycled material—used both internally and by our customers.
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How TDC Plays a Crucial Role in Making Products More Sustainable
Our Technical Design Center (TDC) is involved early in the product development phase—guiding design choices that improve product functionality, reduce environmental impact, and accelerate time-to-market.
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Customer survey
For many years, Nolato has prioritized conducting a yearly customer survey to enhance the company’s overall performance and operations, and to ensure long-term satisfactory customer relationships. The customer survey is sent out each year to the majority (by value) of Nolato’s customers across business areas worldwide. While the survey has a simple format and is of both quantitative and qualitative nature, it generates solid, tangible and useful insights, which is of great value both for Nolato and its customers.
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Nolato's Trishield RTV: Revolutionizing EMI Shielding
Nolato's new Trishield RTV technology sets a new standard in EMI shielding. With room temperature vulcanization, it offers high shielding effectiveness and strong mechanical performance, making it ideal for heat-sensitive materials like plastic and magnesium.
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Security solutions of the future
Nolato has worked with Verisure, a leading provider of smart alarm solutions, in the development of Voicepad – a compact control unit designed for connected home security systems.
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Kinnarps case
A win for the environment and for efficiency.
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Innovation that reduces costs and carbon footprint
By switching from high carbon footprint plastics like PC and ABS to PP plastic, we have achieved significant cost savings and reduced the product's climate impact by up to 70%.
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Interview Fredrik Arp
At Nolato’s Annual General Meeting on May 6, 2025, Fredrik Arp formally stepped down as Chairman of the Board, handing over the reins to Klas Forsström. This marked the conclusion of a remarkable 16-year journey - one defined by growth, transformation, and steadfast commitment to Nolato’s success. Reflecting on the journey, Arp shared his thoughts with Nolato Magazine.
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From pilot to scale manufacturing
In this interview with ONdrugDelivery, Glenn Svedberg of Nolato talks with Guy Furness about Nolato’s role as a strategic partner for design, development and industrialization within the pharmaceutical sector.
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Innovation driving superior quality
At Nolato Treff AG, cutting-edge automation technologies—driven by AI, robotics, and a commitment to sustainability—are revolutionizing quality assurance and production agility.
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Restructuring of Nolato in Asia
Nolato has restructured its operations in Asia to strengthen competitiveness, enhance customer proximity, and optimize its regional presence.
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Manufacturing precision mold
Be-Må Molds specializes in the design and manufacture of precision mold tools, from prototype tools to multi-cavity tools for medical device components, caps, and closure products in polymeric materials such as plastic, silicone (LSR), and thermoplastic elastomers (TPE).
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Inhaler accessory
Learn how Nolato helped one customer gain a market advantage through competitive reshoring
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Nolato in Hungary sells its waste
By recycling on-site, we’re reducing our environmental impact and contributing to a circular economy.
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Acoustic camera finds air leaks
By visually pinpointing leaks, we can address them more effectively, saving energy and aligning with our commitment to sustainability.
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Nolato's supplier code of conduct
By working together on goals like renewable energy use and Science Based Targets, we’re paving the way for impactful, collective action.
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Forming the Future
Nolato’s new internal network dedicated to advancing sustainable materials like recycled and bio-based options.
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Nolato's eco-design model
Eco-design involves environmentally optimizing a new product at the drawing board stage.
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Employment project important for social sustainability
Nolato Cerbo has partnered up with the Trollhättan council’s Job Centre to help individuals re-enter the workforce.
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Recognized with Red Dot Winner Award
The RÖtt KRÖN Earring positions itself as a refreshing alternative to conventional earbuds
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Analysis slashes water consumption
By optimizing equipment and streamlining water use, Nolato MediTor continue to enhance sustainability in our operations.
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Connected vehicles
Our Form-In-Place EMC dispensing technology and Compashield SMT Pad provide industry-leading grounding and shielding, delivering reliable performance under mechanical and environmental stress.
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Nolato starts EMC production in India
Nolato has established a new EMC production unit in Bangalore, southern India, strategically located near many of our key customers in the telecom, automotive, electronics, and aviation industries.
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R-thinking key to developing new products
By adopting R-strategies—such as reuse, repair, and recycling—we aim to minimize resource use and reduce waste.
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Enhancing optical module performance
Materials at Nolato, specialize in delivering cutting-edge EMC and thermal solutions for optical module manufacturers, helping them meet the growing demands for data, cloud, and 5G services.
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Automation meets sustainability
Nolato Polymer has taken a big step forward in efficiency and innovation with their latest advanced production cell in Torekov, featuring nine six-axis robots working together to produce crankcases for Husqvarna’s chainsaws.
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Dynamic market for medical devices in Ireland
Nolato produces injection-molded components for medical devices at its plant in Sligo, in the north of the Republic of Ireland.
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Box build Mexico
Nolato Querétaro, which is in the Mexican city of El Marques, became part of Nolato in connection with the Group’s acquisition of GW Plastics in 2020. For almost 20 years, the company has been developing and manufacturing polymer products for leading customers in the automotive sector, medtech and industry in general.
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EcoVadis 2024
2024, Nolato was awarded a Gold Medal by EcoVadis, placing us in the top 4% of over 130,000 companies assessed globally for sustainability!
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Center for innovation in Switzerland’s Coffee Valley
Did you know that Switzerland plays a pivotal role in the global coffee industry? Companies like Nolato Treff are key players, providing precision-engineered components that ensure both quality and sustainability. Discover more about Switzerland’s coffee innovation!
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Three business areas become two
As of Q1 2024 we announced the merger of our Integrated Solutions and Industrial Solutions into a single business area—Engineered Solutions. In this article you can read more how this move, aligned with our customers’ global market strategies, enables us to offer comprehensive solutions with a strong local presence across multiple locations.
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New long-term cooperation agreement
Nolato has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with a major existing customer to supply medical devices for drug administration, including to support treatment of obesity and diabetes.
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Nolato’s emissions targets gain SBTi approval
Nolato has taken a significant step in its climate journey by setting ambitious science-based emissions targets, now validated by the SBTi, aligning the company’s efforts with the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.
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Sustainability in the drug delivery industry
An interview with Glenn Svedberg around the role and importance of sustainability in the drug delivery industry, and how Nolato Group has approached implementing this critical aspect of the modern industry landscape.
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How can EMI be contained?
In simple terms, most ‘shielding’ problems could be solved by welding the equipment into seamless steel box.
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What are the main sources of EMC problems?
In all cases there has to be a source and a victim for a path to exist thereby permitting a radiated or conducted coupling. RF Interface (sometimes referred to as RFI), more correctly known as Electromagnetic interface (EMI), results from the operation of electrical or electronic devices involving rapidly changing voltage or current levels and which cause the generation of electromagnetic energy at discrete frequencies and over frequency bands.
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Other considerations for deciding the correct type of gasket
Very often, the design of the equipment enclosure will itself dramatically limit the choices of gasket materials. Some enclosures are light-weight aluminium or even plastic with very little potential for withstanding distortion during compression of the shielding gasket.
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How are seams and joint lines sealed?
Joints should be regarded as permanent or temporary (permitting occasional access). Permanents joints and seams should be welded, soldered, or conductively bonded with a special adhesive. If screws or rivets are employed, particular attention should be given to gaps and bulges between the mating surfaces. Ideally these should be gasketed and should even contain ‘limit stops’ inside the gaskets to prevent distortion of the mating surfaces.
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Notification of change of syringe format
Notification of change of syringe format affecting conductive adhesive, caulk and FIP materials supplied in 10ml. 30ml and 55ml syringes
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What happens when an electromagnetic wave strikes a metallic barrier?
For those who require this question answered with higher mathematical equations, electromagnetic theory is well documented from a multitude of sources, in varying degrees of detail and mathematical content!
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Why must we achieve EMC?
Other than the fact that products which do not comply cannot be marketed legally in the EC, more disruptive manifestations would exist that could affect the very manner in which we lead out lives.
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EMC and the European market
“Electromagnetic compatibility is an essential feature of any specification for electrical equipment and is defined as the ability of electrical and electronic equipment’s, sub-systems and systems to share the electromagnetic spectrum and perform their desired functions without unacceptable degradation from or to the specified electromagnetic environment”
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Winner of Nolato Sustainable Supplier Award 2024
Congratulations to ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH for winning the 2024 Nolato Sustainable Supplier award!
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Nolato Sustainable Procurement initiative 2024
Together with our suppliers we can significantly reduce our carbon footprint and enhance our sustainability performance.
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Transformation into a supplier of customized medical devices
Nolato Jaycare has created a competitive plant for world-class production of medical devices.
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Expansion Nolato Romania
Nolato’s production unit in Romania is continuing to expand and has moved into a new facility.
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Growing company
During periods of expansion, how do you ensure a business doesn’t lose its efficient decision-making structure and keeps everyone focused and feeling a sense of responsibility? One way is by behaving as though the business isn’t so large.
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Company bikes Nolato Cerbo
Nolato Cerbo in Trollhättan is looking to make it easier for employees to cycle to work
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Nolato's virtual factory
Improved design robustness by combining injection molding software with measuring software - Predictive tolerance analyses.
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Our Technical Design Centers merge
Nolato's TDC in Europe, Asia and North America merge. Our global TDC functions as a hub within Nolato to support customers in the development of new products, from project launch to industrialization.
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Mass balance cuts carbon footprint
Mass balance for plastic is a useful way of slowly introducing renewable raw materials by mixing them with fossil raw materials to gradually phase them out of a product
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95% of Nolato's carbon dioxide emissions are indirect and fall within Scope3
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IT security
Recent years have seen a rise in threats to corporate IT environments, creating new demands for understanding, preparing and regularly updating protective measures.
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EMC production in Mexico
Nolato’s plant in Mexico has gained expertise and resources within EMC – electromagnetic compatibility.
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Cleanroom Nolato Dongguan
Clean it? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
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Eco-design: The drawing board is the best stage to environmentally optimize a new product
Eco-design involves environmentally optimizing a new product at the drawing board stage.
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Be-Må Molds acquired
Precision injection mold manufacturer joins Nolato.
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UK-based EMC company acquired
Nolato PPT develops and manufactures windows, valves and gaskets that are used to shield electronics.
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Agrivoltaics introduced to solar farm
Combining both agriculture and solar power generation — called agrivoltaics — is a burgeoning innovation that optimizes the productivity and efficiency of land use.
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Integrating electronics
Integrating components during the injection-molding process has long been one of Nolato’s core capabilities. Adding sheets of fiber-reinforced plastic or complex metal components at the injection-molding stage have been some of the methods used to strengthen vulnerable parts of products, or to simplify the assembly process during injection molding.
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Amazing new decoration technique
Nolato is now offering a new decoration technique that, combined with painting, produces a highly sustainable surface for all kinds of consumer electronics.
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Cool running TIM
Some issues have been raised regarding silicone in electronics. Consequently, in spite of their often-disadvantageous aging, thermal stability, and stiffness properties, PLP TIM products with non-silicone-based matrices have been gaining in popularity. This article by the R&D department of Nolato Silikonteknik addresses these concerns and underlines the benefits offered by silicone.
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Cleanroom Nolato GW Querétaro
Cleanroom in Querétaro expands Nolato’s customer offering in Mexico.
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Record-quick time to market for IVD product during pandemic
Although medical device projects often involve extended lead times from decision to production, there are times when time to market is key.
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Packaging designed for mailboxes
Packaging with excellent vapor barrier designed for mailboxes.
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Digitalization provides opportunities
People living with diabetes used to have to prick their finger several times a day to keep track of their blood sugar levels. These days, continuous glucose monitoring offers a vast improvement in quality of life by regularly measuring levels using a sensor underneath the skin. Digitalization of medical devices has created opportunities, but also poses new challenges.
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Containers from surplus material
Plastic containers for the pharmaceutical and dietary supplements industries are produced using blow molding. This process is more sensitive and harder to control than traditional injection molding, which means the production of containers generates slightly more surplus material.
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Extrusion line at Nolato Jabar
The new extrusion line will not only boost productivity, cut energy consumption and reduce waste, but will also improve the quality of gaskets.
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Choosing lower-carbon alternatives
Nolato can help make adjustments to our customers design of a product to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Significant growth in water-based paints
Water-based paints have grown from accounting for around 5 to 10 percent to more than 60 percent of total paint usage at Nolato Beijing.
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Mass balance of plastic can accelerate the transition to bio-based raw materials
Mass balance is an interesting way to accelerate the industry’s transition to using plastic produced from sustainable, bio-based raw materials or recycled plastic.
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We aim to reuse and recycle as much as possible in a constant loop
The plastics industry has good opportunities to be part of the circular economy development, as plastic has excellent properties for being recycled to make new products. Read more here.
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We are responsible for our environmental footprint
Sustainable development has long been a top priority for Nolato. It’s a natural part of our corporate culture and something that is deeply rooted in the company. Now we are setting absolute targets according to SBTi.
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Local production with global coordination
Global developments increase need for local production with global coordinaton
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A smart combination of local and global
Sharing expertise as well as technologies, materials and processes allows us to deliver complete, customer-specific solutions that reduce customers’ time to market.
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Major new solar farm in southern Sweden enters operation
One of Sweden’s largest solar farms, located near Åhus in Skåne, has now entered operation.
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Nolato plants trees in China
We believe both large and small initiatives can help curb climate change.
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Electronic industry thermal challenges
As electronics become increasingly powerful, the heat being radiated is escalating in terms of what current cooling technology can handle.
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Injection molding silicone
We meet our customer needs within injection molding of silicone - both liquid and hard silicone.
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Multiple expansions
Nolato are expanding to create new, efficient production space and boost capacity.
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Innovative catheter
Gothenburg-based Wellspect wanted to make a real difference by developing a new hydrophilic intermittent catheter for women who need help emptying their bladders.
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Shrinking our carbon footprint
We are shrinking our carbon footprint by switching from coal- to wind-generated power in China
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Solving technical challenges and cutting costs for customers
"Not only have Nolato successfully resolved the technical challenges for the customer, we’ve also saved Dräger money by adopting an innovative and smart approach."
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Head of Sustainability
Significant customer interest in switching to lower-carbon materials.
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RÖtt KRÖN earphones-Reality meets fantasy
RÖtt KRÖN is a new brand of wearables – consumer electronics that are not only high quality but also high fashion. Above all, the brand showcases Nolato’s customer offering in consumer electronics.
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Nolato purchases electricity from new solar farm in southern Sweden
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Nolato’s strategic transformation
A global partner with development, production and customers on three continents.
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Smaller carbon footprint from plastic pharma containers
In the public debate about how to reduce the carbon footprint of packaging, it’s often said that glass would be a significantly more eco-friendly material than plastic in pharma packaging, for example. However, a comparative life cycle analysis of containers made from glass, aluminum and plastic gives a different result.
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Working for a sustainable future
Constantly ensuring that everything Nolato does is sustainable and in harmony with the environment, social responsibility and business benefit is vitally important to us.
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5G Street Macro for easy deployment
The challenges that operators have in metropolitan areas are to grow their capacity beyond what is possible on their rooftop macro sites. For this, our customer has introduced the Street Macro layer in the network model. It is a layer that sits between the macro- and the micro layer.
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EMC thermal automotive
The telecom industry has for a long time had a great need for EMI shielding, using EMC gaskets in between metal housing covers. This ensures no high-frequency signal interference, and this need is now increasingly present also in the automotive sector.
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New silicone material for efficient heat dissipation
Thermal management is a hot topic. How do you efficiently divert the heat generated by electronic components to ensure they’re not damaged?
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EMC gaskets – development trends
For over two decades, Nolato has supported their customers in overcoming the challenges of developing products with high demands on electro-magnetic shielding. Experiencing that the products continuously requires smaller and more narrow designs, capable of greater capacity, higher frequencies and more power. This implies an ever increased requirement on the electrically conductive gaskets.
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Transparent silicone a clear choice for surgeons
Our customer was extremely pleased that from one facility, we have delivered a high-quality medical device made of two completely different thermoplastic and silicone materials.
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Early support for product development
While our customers are mainly focused on the design of the new product and its functionality, we can use our expertise and provide external support for the customer through a virtual design process. This combination provides a strong basis for optimal product development.
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World leading in silicone components
With 40 years’ experience of injection-molding silicone and production operations in both Europe and North America, Nolato is a world-leading manufacturer of a range of silicone components
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Design for the environment
Ensuring at the development phase that a new product is easily recyclable is one of the most effective ways of making it environmentally sustainable. And if the product can also be made from recycled or bio-based plastic material as part of environmentally optimized production, then we’ve made significant progress on its environmental profile.
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Holistic approach to training
Rural Vermont is not where anyone expects to find one of the world’s most advanced injection-molding companies. Nestled in the beautiful Green Mountains, Nolato GW is investing in the future of local students and its own associates with a career development program like no other.
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GW Plastics becomes Nolato GW
In September 2020 Nolato made the largest ever acquisition in its 82-year history, when North American GW Plastics became part of the Nolato Group.
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Allergy amulet
Designed to be worn as a piece of jewelry, the Allergy Amulet merges medical-grade performance with everyday convenience.
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Medical packaging: A case for plastic
The environmental impacts of plastic are most often associated with two main areas, plastic waste in nature and carbon emissions attributable to the production and later incineration of plastic. In respect to the latter, we at Nolato believe that the general public has a slightly shifted view of the relative level of greenhouse gases emitted from the production of plastic products.
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Nolato, putting pressure on the supply chain
Nolato wants to be a proactive organization in the search for a more environmentally sustainable future. We do what we can to push our customers towards more environmentally friendly materials and production methods as well as working hard to reduce our own environmental impact.
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Optimized shipping
Delivering a product to a customer in a sustainable way can be a difficult matter. Even though the CO2 emissions from our logistics department contributes little to our overall energy consumption, we believe that a sustainable company must know how to deal with sustainable logistics. Our work in sustainable transportation encompasses everything from what type of vehicle we use to minimizing unused cargo space.
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Recycled plastic: Opportunities & challenges
The environmental impacts of plastics are most often associated with two main issues, that being, plastic waste and carbon dioxide emissions. Both of which can be addressed simultaneously by focusing on plastic recycling. The use and reuse of recycled plastic is the single most important aspect in order to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted. Recycling plastic also incentivizes and prompts companies as well as individuals to better collect and recycle plastics which reduces the amount of plastic that ends up in nature.
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Collaborating with universities and students
We at Nolato are passionate about our work with sustainability. To make sure our sustainability work continues with the same passion in the foreseeable future, we need to be the future. By collaborating with established universities and talented students, we can create great value from several perspectives. Not only will Nolato invest in innovative employees that make us grow as a company, but we can also make sure to educate and support students to make them grow as well.
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Sustainability an integral part
There are a variety of different ways to define and measure sustainability. For Nolato, sustainability centers around social and environmental work which we see as an integral part of our financial value creation. There is no room for economic growth at this state without taking the well-being of people and the environment into account.
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Informing our customers
We at Nolato are continuously working to improve our production by choosing materials with lower carbon footprint, such as bio-based plastics and recycled plastics. We are also optimizing our products, making them as light as possible in order to reduce the amount of fossil-based raw materials. We also design our products to be easy to recycle. In addition, we are always striving to improve our factories, where we use fossil-free energy and continuously cut our carbon dioxide emissions.
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Design for disassembly
One of, it not the most, effective way of making a plastic product environmentally friendly is to make sure that the product is recycled in an optimal way at the end of its lifecycle. Actions to make recycling easier and better can be taken by a variety of different sectors of society in multiple ways. Whether that be through the government setting up new regulations and tax incentives or the general public changing its view on recycling.
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Reducing production related emissions
We at Nolato are committed to reducing the harmful emissions created by our factories. Our sustainability work is in alignment with the United Nations sustainable development agenda. These goals are guidelines for all our work with the purpose of creating a more sustainable future.
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Reducing production related waste
We at Nolato are constantly working to cut our carbon emissions. In regards to our production facilities, this is done by making the right decisions regarding energy sources, production efficiency and waste management.
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Simulation is the key to optimization
We at Nolato are determined to do everything we can in order to mitigate the negative effects that our and our customers’ products have on the environment. One way in which we at Nolato can do this is through optimizing the products that we produce in order for them to be as sustainable as possible.
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The zero-sum game of bio-based plastics
Bio-based plastics possess the same qualities as plastics made from oil, but emit sustainably lower amounts of CO2 over its lifetime. One way for Nolato to ensure that we create positive change is to innovate how we produce our products to minimize carbon emissions, and bio-based plastics have shown great potential for becoming the plastic material of a sustainable future. Read more about bio-based plastics here.
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A holistic approach
We at Nolato are determined to do what we can to minimize our impact on the environment. Our fight against climate change is fought on multiple fronts, stretching through the entire product lifecycle. In the previous articles, we have written about each one of these fronts. The aim of this article is to give you an overview of all the environmentally friendly decisions you as a customer can make with Nolato as your business partner.
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Breaking the mold leads to top design award
The RÖtt KRÖN Earring positions itself as a refreshing alternative to conventional earbuds
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Plastics a necessary part of society
Working with plastics is not generally associated with sustainability, more often it is associated with plastic pollution affecting our land and oceans since the chemical structure of most plastic makes it hard to decompose. As a company manufacturing plastic products, we have a great responsibility to make sure our products are manufactured, used, and recycled in a sustainable way.
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Social sustainability
Social responsibility is something that we at Nolato take very seriously and it is a key part of our business model. We are working tirelessly to ensure our employees’ safety and wellbeing. A part of this is our work against discrimination of all sorts, be that racial or gender based.
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Empowering Nolato Talents Through the UN’s SDG Innovation Program
As an active participant of the UN Global Compact, Nolato has long championed innovative sustainable solutions that align and support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, the company was invited to participate in the UNGC’s Nordic SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals 2025, with three employees from the Nolato Group selected to participate.