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Loopfront for reuse

Oslo municipality
Oslo Municipality

In 2025, more than 1,600 pieces of furniture and fixtures were reused by 47 departments on the municipality's internal marketplace in Loopfront.

This was achieved without the need for a central storage and with savings of over 4.5 million NOK.
UiB
University of Bergen

Since 2023, UiB has reused over 2000 pieces of furniture.

In 2025, they opened their internal marketplace in Loopfront for all employees at the university, so they can order surplus furniture across departments.
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Ullensvang municipality

In 2025, Ullensvang Municipality opened its internal marketplace in Loopfront for all employees, and has gained many active users in a short time.

In less than a year, they have saved over a million NOK and reuse has become a natural part of daily operations in the municipality.

Photo: Hardanger Folkeblad


Reuse storage

Trondheim municipality
Trondheim municipality

Trondheim Municipality have two storages for building materials and furniture, which are hubs for reuse in the municipality's projects and daily operations.

Loopfront is used to keep track of inventory, and employees can easily order surplus via their internal marketplace. Since 2022, they have saved over 52 million NOK and 1205 tons of waste.
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Halden municipality

Halden Municipality has established a reuse storage in a closed school that is operated in collaboration with Halden Arbeid og Vekst (job training company).

Employees of Halden Municipality can easily order furniture from the storage via their internal marketplace in Loopfront. So far, they have saved over NOK 750,000 and 11 tons of CO₂.

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Stavanger municipality

Stavanger Municipality has established its own municipal storage and uses Loopfront to systematize reuse.

In a year and a half, they have saved approximately 3.2 million NOK through reuse of furniture, and approximately 3 million NOK on construction projects.


Asset management

Helse Bergen HF

Helse Bergen HF

At Helse Bergen / Haukeland University Hospital, reuse is a natural part of new construction, renovation and ongoing operations.

Since 2023, the regional health authority has saved NOK 25.8 million, 413 tons of CO₂ and avoided 171 tons of waste, through smarter management and reuse of furniture and fixtures.

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Asker municipality

Asker Municipality was the first to adopt Loopfront in 2019, and has since hired a dedicated furniture manager and made reuse the norm.

In 2024, they decided to focus
100% on reuse, and in 2025 they saved almost 4 million NOK by avoiding buying new office furniture altogether.


Relocation project

bærum municipality

Bærum municipality

Bærum municipality achieved 80% reuse when over 6,000 pieces of furniture were given new life in connection with relocating to the new municipal office in 2023.

They now also use Loopfront for reuse in property management and as an internal marketplace for employees.

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Sparebanken Møre

Sparebanken Møre is rehabilitating its head bank office in Ålesund, and moved 200 employees to temporary premises.

Loopfront's partners Relokator assisted with the relocation and surveying of furniture, fixtures and ICT equipment in the Loopfront platform. This ensures a high degree of reuse, both in the temporary premises and later in the refurbished building.

Helseetaten

Helseetaten, the Norwegian Heath Authority, relocated their offices and emergency room in Oslo in 2023.

Nearly 100 tons of inventory and equipment were surveyed in Loopfront instead of being thrown away, and went to 27 other businesses, as well as being donated to charity.


Construction project

Frydenbø Eiendom

The real estate company Frydenbø Eiendom are renovating an office building with a goal of 100% reuse.

With surplus materials from tenant adaptations surveyed in Loopfront, they make reuse more affordable than building with new materials.

Aud Max NMBU

Aud Max (NMBU)

Zero emission studio uses Loopfront to organize the entire process of reuse, both for the surveying, in the feasibility study and in the design phase and thus helps NMBU to manage their reuse ambition.

In the next phase of the project, Loopfront will also be used to organize the implementation.

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Skur 38

Zero emission studio helped the Port of Oslo fulfill its goal of low greenhouse gas emissions by focusing on reuse in their renovation project.

Loopfront was used to survey in the early phase, to see what could be reused from the existing building.



Property management

Photo: Nils Gelting Andresen, Klimaetaten

Oslobygg KF

Oslobygg KF has a property portfolio of approximately 1826 buildings, and designs, maintains and operates for a long service lifetime.

Oslobygg surveys materials and building components in Loopfront, which are reused either internally or forwarded to other projects.

Photo: Nils Gelting Andresen, Klimaetaten

Tema Eiendom

As part of Tema Eiendom's sustainability strategy, the real estate company has established a reuse storage to promote circular resource use in property management.

Tema Eiendom uses Loopfront to give materials and products new life, instead of going to waste.

They also sell surplus materials to other companies on the external marketplace in Loopfront.


Other reuse areas

Loopfront is constantly evolving to adapt reuse in new segments.
Does your company want to explore a new reuse area with us?

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Reuse in retail

Loopfront is also being used for reuse of shop fittings. Our first retail customer, Apotek 1, is upgrading to a new store concept, where a lot of the interior is reused, refurbished and adapted to a new design profile. In addition to saving CO₂ and waste, they find that reuse results in at least 20% lower costs compared to buying everything new. Read more.

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Regional collaboration

It's easier to become circular together, and Loopfront also offers solutions for companies that want to collaborate on reuse.
For example, the municipalities Elverum, Våler, Tolga, Alvdal and Rendalen have joined forces for a joint solution for reuse of furniture and ICT equipment in Loopfront. Read more.

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FAQ

What is Loopfront?

Loopfront is a web-based digital platform that provides an overview of assets that can be reused, enabling companies to reduce waste, cut costs and document environmental impact. The platform works on both PC and mobile devices.

Loopfront also has an external marketplace where all companies can create an account to order surplus that Loopfront's customers sell or give away. (Currently only available for the Norwegian market)

Who is Loopfront suitable for?

Loopfront is used by organizations such as municipalities, counties, real estate companies, universities, contractors and other types of public and private companies.

Loopfront gives organizations better control of assets and more systematic reuse, which reduces costs, waste and emissions.

What kind of objects can be registered in Loopfront?

Our users reuse everything from furniture, fixtures and IT equipment to building materials, technical components and even trees!

The platform automatically suggests information about products using image recognition, such as category and title. In addition, purchase price, weight and CO2 estimates are suggested, which form the basis for the savings reports in the platform.

Loopfront can be adapted to different needs, and covers an increasing number of categories such as medical equipment and retail equipment.

How does reuse with Loopfront work in practice?

Assets are easily registered in the system with information such as condition, location and availability.

Users can then search, order or plan reuse, as well as follow up on service and maintenance.

What is the difference between using Loopfront and spreadsheets for reuse?

Unlike static documents, Loopfront gathers all updated information in one place and provides a real-time overview for everyone involved.

When registering items in Loopfront, information about the products is also automatically suggested using image recognition. Among other things, Loopfront suggests category and title, as well as purchase price, weight and CO2 estimate that provide the basis for the savings reports.

The platform is visual, structured and adapted for reuse, with images, status updates and guidance in the registration.

It saves time, simplifies collaboration across departments and projects, and provides an automatic overview of savings in costs, CO₂ and waste.

Does Loopfront offer services beyond the reuse platform?

In addition to the platform itself, Loopfront offers onboarding and consulting for organizations in the use of Loopfront and structuring internal processes to succeed with reuse. We have gathered a lot of experience through our customers and are happy to share their experiences for success.

Loopfront also has an ever-growing network of partners who offer a range of circular services for our customers. Among these services are consulting, testing, surveying, redesign, relocation, transportation and reporting.

Do you have any questions or want to know more about our partner program? Contact Loopfront's Head of Partnerships: vladislav@loopfront.com

Where do we begin the process of reuse using Loopfront?

Internal marketplace - If your company wants an easy start with reuse, you can start by creating an internal marketplace in Loopfront. Here you can give employees access to list and order surplus furniture and fixtures across departments to reduce unnecessary purchases.


Project
- If your organization has a specific project (e.g. demolition, rehabilitation or relocation project) start by surveying products with potential for reuse in Loopfront. You can use your own staff or external professionals to carry out the surveying. Give the project team access to Loopfront to plan what can be reused where.

Asset management - If you have one or more storage areas (storage rooms, basements etc...), you can start by surveying these to get an overview of what is available for reuse.

Also survey usage locations with planned changes that can make items available in the future. list currently and upcoming available items on the marketplace to make them visible to others who can reuse them.

Can we control who has access to what in Loopfront?

Yes, you can. You can set up different roles and access so that employees only see and manage what is relevant to them.