BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

To tackle the major public health challenges such as lifestyle diseases and an aging population while creating the conditions for regional innovation and growth, an investment in the field of health and sports technology is being made with BTH at the forefront. The project, which starts July 1, is called the Health and Sports Technology Initiative and aims to make the county of Blekinge a hub for technological innovation in sports and health. Here, ideas will be utilized and developed and skills will be coordinated – all in order to produce technological innovations that can then be launched in the European or international market. -We aim to develop new companies and our ambition is to become an interesting region – a good hub for companies in health and sports, says Tobias Larsson, professor at BTH. The project will include competence in the form of Mikael Mattsson, PhD in physiology and researcher at Stanford University, and Stina Lundgren Högbom, expert in […]

Being self-sufficient on healthcare items, such as disposable gloves, would facilitate healthcare. Now, BTH’s students have developed a movable glove factory that can be moved between different places where gloves are needed. During the corona pandemic, the lack of personal protective equipment e.g. protective gloves has been known. Although global production has increased by 40 per cent, they can be difficult to get hold of. These also create increasingly large waste streams that partly end up in the community or even in the seas. The idea that BTH’s students in the Bachelor of Science programme in mechanical engineering has developed is a solution for recycling and re-manufacturing personal protective equipment, in this case disposable gloves. The idea is called ReGlove and is a circular solution where the gloves are recycled and then manufactured again. The disposable gloves, which are made of a special form of polyvinyl alcohol, are taken care of after use, cleaned and then melted down to liquid. […]