NG Nordic has been included on TIME and Statista’s inaugural “World’s Most Impactful Companies 2026” list.

Stockholm, May 12, 2026: NG Nordic, a Summa Equity portfolio company and a leading Nordic provider of circular solutions and environmental services, has been named one of TIME’s World’s Most Impactful Companies 2026 in partnership with Statista and The Upright Project.

The ranking highlights companies that combine significant economic scale with measurable positive impact on society and the environment through a data-driven and independent assessment.

NG Nordic was recognized for advancing circularity by transforming waste into valuable resources, recovering critical materials, reducing emissions, and removing hazardous substances from circulation.

— This is a major recognition of the entire NG Nordic organization. Every day, our employees work to transform waste into valuable resources and help accelerate the transition to a truly circular economy. The recognition also reflects the trust of our customers, partners, and local communities, says Bjørn Arve Ofstad, CEO of NG Nordic.

NG Nordic appears on the list alongside fellow Norwegian company Scatec, which has also been recognized by TIME and Statista in recent years for its work within renewable energy and green technology.

The ranking also highlights a broader Nordic picture: Sweden has 10 companies on the list and Denmark 12, while Norway still has relatively few globally recognized companies within circularity, resource recovery, and green industry.

For Summa Equity, the recognition reinforces the growing importance of companies solving large-scale societal and industrial challenges.

— NG Nordic is a clear example of how industrial value creation and positive societal impact can reinforce one another. Circularity is not only about climate and sustainability. It is about competitiveness, access to critical materials, lower emissions, and more resilient societies. TIME’s recognition of NG Nordic as one of the world’s most impactful companies demonstrates how important these businesses are becoming to both the economy and society,” says Hannah Gunvor Jacobsen, Partner, COO and Head of Investor Relations at Summa Equity and member of the Board at NG Nordic.

She believes the development reflects a broader shift in how capital markets evaluate future winners.

— The most valuable companies of the coming decades will be those solving real bottlenecks in society. NG Nordic is building infrastructure for a world where materials must be reused, emissions reduced, and hazardous substances removed from circulation. That is strong industrial logic — and strong investment logic,” continues Jacobsen.

NG Nordic handles millions of tonnes of waste and secondary resources annually through approximately 90 facilities across the Nordics. The company plays an increasingly important role at a time when resource security, industrial resilience, and access to raw materials are becoming more critical across Europe.

— Waste is increasingly recognized for what it truly is: a valuable resource. The transition to a circular economy is one of the defining industrial transformations of our time. We are proud to contribute by helping industries and society recover materials, reduce emissions, strengthen resource resilience, and reduce dependence on virgin resources in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape,” says Runa Opdal Kerr, Chief Impact Officer at NG Nordic.

The TIME ranking was developed in partnership with Statista and The Upright Project and evaluates companies based on factors including economic significance, alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and science-based assessments of their net impact on people, society, and the environment.