nornnorn at RAEng’s ‘TSP Thailand In-country Event’

As the lead researcher of nornnorn’s effort to develop an innovative polyurethane (PU) foam upcycling technology that has been supported by a UK Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) grant through the Engineering X Transforming Systems through Partnership (TSP) programme, Dr. Tanujjal Bora, Director, Centre of Excellence in Nanotechnology (COEN), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), was invited by RAEng to present an overview of the project to the current and past awardees of RAEng’s TSP and Industry Academia Partnership (IAP) programmes at the “TSP Thailand In-country event” on June 21.

Hosted by RAEng and the Programme Management Unit for Competitiveness (PMU-C), Thailand’s Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO), the event was held at Mahamakut Building, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

TSP helps create partnerships between industries and engineering academia in Colombia, India, Jordan, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and the UK who use engineering to tackle development and sustainability challenges. The research and development projects supported by the programme cover a wide range of sectors and themes, ranging from biodiversity, circular economy, sustainable agriculture, food security and societal changes.

To date TSP has provided grants worth GBP1.7 million to 39 projects in Thailand.

Commencing in April 2021 to support nornnorn's mattress recycling process, nornnorn’s polyurethane (PU) foam upcycling technology development project is expected to yield a lab-scale prototype of the technology (TRL-4) by December this year.