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Nordic Circular Investments

Circular business.

Proven performance.

10 companies across the Nordics demonstrating how circular business models become bankable.

CIRCULAR FINANCE - 3STEPIT

The bank partnering that scales circular IT

3stepIT provides end-to-end IT lifecycle management. By combining leasing with refurbishment and reuse, it turns used devices into a source of recurring revenue.

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Hand reaching toward a computer processor

CONSTRUCTION - CEMVISION

Re-ment is decarbonising cement without a green premium

Cemvision converts low-grade steel slag that would otherwise be waste into high-performance cement feedstock, while recovering valuable critical metals from steelmaking.

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Cemvision concrete pipes

REFURBISHED TECH - FOXWAY

An ecosystem that creates value in every device

Foxway helps organisations use laptops, phones and other IT equipment as a service. It takes devices back, tests and refurbishes them, and returns them to the market. Instead of treating technology as disposable, Foxway builds value from several useful lives of the same device.

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Foxway technician refurbishing a laptop

OCEAN - KERECIS

From fish skin to Nordic unicorn

Rooted in Iceland’s fishing industry, Kerecis transformed a low-value fish byproduct into a high-value medical technology — creating skilled jobs in a rural region while building a globally successful company.

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From fish skin to Nordic unicorn

FURNITURE - MOVEMENT

Turning a proven reuse business into a scalable circular platform

Founded in 2002, Movement has developed from a small resale operation into a nationwide B2B reuse platform combining sourcing, refurbishment, warehousing, logistics, installation and resale.

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Movement conference room furnished with reusable furniture

METALS AND MINERALS - NORDIC SALT CYCLE

Recovering critical materials with a modular approach

Nordic Salt Cycle is developing a molten-salt technology that recovers valuable metals from battery black mass and other complex industrial waste streams.

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NSC modular critical-material recovery site

REGENERATIVE - ORIGIN BY OCEAN

Turning Ocean Byproducts into Regenerative Value

Origin by Ocean is a Finnish biotech company turning invasive marine algae into valuable bio-based ingredients. Its patented biorefining technology creates alternatives to chemicals traditionally made from fossil resources, while helping address the environmental damage caused by algal overgrowth

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Ocean-derived material

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS - PAPERSHELL

A new material. Different industrial future

PaperShell develops press-formed biobased composite components from kraft paper and bio-based binders.

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Papershell formed-fibre packaging

E-COMMERCE PLATFORMS - TISE

Tise turned second-hand shopping into a strategic asset

Tise built a social marketplace that made second-hand fashion attractive, accessible and engaging.

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Tise community and second-hand fashion

CIRCULAR INFRASTRUCTURE - TOMRA

From circular innovation to bankable circular infrastructure

TOMRA has evolved from a bottle-return technology pioneer into a global circular infrastructure platform, enabling collection, sorting and resource recovery at scale.

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Baled recyclable materials ready for processing