Ainir Receives Funding from Telemark Development Fund

Ainir Cyclotronics has received funding from the Telemark Development Fund for the further development and industrialisation of Cyclotron 365, our portable solution for sorting and recycling plastic packaging from hospitals.

The project marks the transition from prototype and technology development towards industrial validation and commercial readiness. Cyclotron 365 is being completed as an operational solution and will be tested under real-world operating conditions to document both operational stability and the quality of the material produced.

Cyclotron 365 is designed to identify, sort and process plastic before it is mixed with other material streams and loses quality and value. This enables the plastic to be transformed into consistent, documented fractions ready for further use in industry. The ambition is to establish a model where plastic from hospitals can increasingly be treated as a raw material rather than waste.

Together with our industrial and technology partners, we are now working to complete and validate the first full-scale facility and prepare the technology for commercial deployment.

For Ainir, the support from the Telemark Development Fund is both an important contribution to the project and a recognition of the potential of the technology we are developing. Throughout our dialogue with the Fund, we have experienced a strong understanding of the technology, the industrialisation process and what it takes to build a new industrial company in Telemark with ambitions extending far beyond the region.

The challenge we are addressing is international. Hospitals generate significant volumes of high-quality plastic packaging that today is largely sent for incineration. At the same time, demand is growing for recycled plastics with documented quality and origin.

Ainir is now entering a new and important phase in the development of Cyclotron 365. The technology is moving from development and engineering to completion, validation and industrialisation. In parallel, we are preparing our first commercial projects and laying the foundation for further scaling in the Nordics and across Europe.