Experienced project factory

Nefco has financed green projects around the world for more than 30 years. Our project portfolio has a broad range of projects varying from the implementation of renewable energy solutions to helping Nordic companies working within the environmental field to establish business operations outside the Nordic countries.

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Case stories

We have financed over 1000 private and public green investment projects and over 300 feasibility studies for Nordic small and medium-sized companies.

Video: Support to sustainable food chilling

Project types we finance

We finance both private and public projects. We also provide loans to financial institutions, which then on-lend to their clients for environmentally beneficial projects.

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Sectors we work with

Our project portfolio includes a broad variation of environmental projects related to clean energy, resource efficiency, waste management, water and wastewater treatment, and agriculture, forestry and fishery.

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Projects

Our project activity on each continent

The Baltics, Central & Eastern Europe

• Loans and equity-type financing to companies for green investments with a Nordic interest
• Competitive loans to local financial institutions, which then on-lend to their clients for environmentally beneficial projects
• Financial support to Nordic SMEs for project preparation activities, feasibility studies and demonstration projects (outside EU/EFTA)
• Loans to municipalities in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia, blended with various types of grants, and technical assistance for feasibility studies and implementation support

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Americas

• Loans, equity-type financing and financial support to Nordic small and medium-sized enterprises for green investments and scale-up on new markets.

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Africa & the Middle East

• Loans, equity-type financing and financial support to Nordic small and medium-sized enterprises for green investments and scale-up on new markets.

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Asia & Australasia

• Loans, equity-type financing and financial support to Nordic small and medium-sized enterprises for green investments and scale-up on new markets.

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Our financed projects in numbers

1618 projects

Projects that have been financed

80 countries

The total number of project countries since 1990

806 private

Number of projects that are under implementation or have been completed

448 public

Number of projects that are under implementation or have been completed

Have a look at implemented projects

• The Danish company Firexpress' nozzle produces small water droplets and reduces water consumption by up to 93%.

  

  Water efficiency for firefighting equipment

  • Private
  • Industry
  • South-East Asia

• Nopef funded project facilitated expansion of Oatly operations to the USA market.

  

  Environmentally-friendly Nordic foods

  • Private
  • Food sector
  • USA

• The investment enabled modernisation of the ventilation system and installation of a cogeneration plant and hot water boilers at the brick production plant in Vitebsk.

  

  Energy supply system at Keramika plant

  • Private
  • Industry
  • Belarus

• NEFCO co-financed the project at the plastic film production plant in Kaluga by extending a EUR 3 million loan. The other investors are Rani Plast, EBRD and Finnfund.

  

  Sustainable plastics production

  • Private
  • Industry
  • Russia

• The project envisaged upgrade of the district heating plant in the city of Berezan, Ukraine.

  

  Energy-saving in Berezan

  • Public
  • Energy Production
  • Ukraine

• The biogas project in Kopanky is the project with multiple environmental benefits – it both decreases the release of methane and the leakage of organic sustances into waterways.

  

  Waste becomes energy in Kopanky

  • Private
  • Biogas production
  • Renewable energy
  • Ukraine

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