Seal of Excelence from Horizon (EU)
Horizon is the name of the biggest EU contribution for European companies. This is a place where good ideas can get money for development of their great ideas. It is several thousand companies and ideas that competes for this funding. It is extremely difficult to get funding, but the best ones get up to EUR 2,5 million.
Winner of Innovation Prize Sandefjord
In the end of 2017 we won an other prize for our work. Sandefjord Nærginslivsforening has chosen us as the winner ot his year innovation prize in competition with great innovative companies such as Jotun and Grans. We are very humble and honored. Thank you!
Visit from Ph. D. Steven Fennimore from UC Davis, California.
The demonstration that we did in both Norway and Germany during the summer of 2017 showed that we still had some way to go, but in the same time we were capable of getting the steam deep enough in the soil and faster and more effective than anyone else.
16 july 2017: Soilprep400 in Germany
Soilprep400 is a big machine and we have already seen that it probably is too big (Even the people which came from USA to watch our equipment in Germany thought it was too small !!).
May 2017: Soilprep400 in the field at Knaskerøtter.
After several thousand hours of work in 4 months, a tired soil steam team is ready to start testing with Tor Fuglestein and Knaskerøtter in Kvelde, Norway.
Building of the soilprep400 automatic soil steamer
Our market research was that we knew from year of experience from the farmers that there was a need and a wish from the farmers to be able to control weeds, fungi and nematodes in the soil by other solutions than chemicals.
Introduced to Idcon and Mr. Cornelis Arnoldussen
When you build a complete machine from the bottom you need several different people involved. You need the economics in order to figure out how much and where to get the money.
23.02.2016 – Registration of the company
Today Soil Steam International AS is registered. It has been a long journey before we got here, but now we were finally here and ready to register the company
Fall 2015
Hans Kristian called up Arvid and Olav the morning after the conversation with Eva-Lena.
The paradoxes in life
In the fall 2015 Hans Kristian Westrum and his wife Eva-Lena are talking about the paradoxes in life. Her father is about to retire, and he is one of the best welders in Sweden, Responsible for the work on welding in companies like Rolls Royce etc.
The history behind Soil Steam International AS
Even though Soil Steam International AS was established in February 2016, this story starts a long time before that. Kjell Westrum, Arvid Laksesvela and Olav Wirgenes were all farmers and were running their own farms.