STIFF-BRUSH TECHNOLOGY

STIFF-BRUSH TECHNOLOGY THAT TOOK OVER THE WORLD

After leaving Neste Oy and setting up his own company, Lars Lundin developed and manufactured a stiff-brush collector based on his stiff-brush technology.

At that time, oil spill prevention and response was in its early stages, especially with regard to open-sea spills. There were plenty of hindrances, so all newly developed products presented to the authorities were difficult to get approved. It was completely impossible to have a product approved without excellent evidence.

Worldwide, for example in oil-rich Norway, there were ready testing pools,

but as the authorities there had competing products themselves, it was not always appropriate to take a new product there to present it. It was also very expensive for the new company to carry out the tests. With this in mind, Lars Lundin had his own testing pool built, and later used it for testing and presentations.

After the approved testing of the stiff-brush collector, construction on the oil spill prevention and response vessel began. The world’s first independent oil spill prevention and response vessel equipped with channels and stiff-brush collectors was completed in 1985.

The achievement was the world domination by the stiff-brush technology which began in 1984, and since then it has been a globally leading product for collecting oil in open waters and in icy winder conditions.