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Volda media building – sustainable construction that looks to the future

The media building was designed by LINK Arkitektur and completed in 2021. Volda University College has around 500 media students, split between six different bachelor programmes. This represents a real boost for education and the future, as media plays an increasingly important role in society. The building’s clear environmental focus is reflected in the choice of material for the exterior cladding – recycled Hydro CIRCAL aluminium – which has one of the lowest carbon footprints on the market. Photographer: Marius Beck DahleMost of us would agree that it is important to have

Sales launch of Intervacc vaccine against equine Strangles during Q1 2022

Stockholm, December 14, 2021 - Intervacc AB (“Intervacc”) announces today that sales of the company’s Strangles vaccine Strangvac are planned to begin in the first quarter of 2022. Intervacc's vaccine against equine Strangles, a widespread and common infectious disease that affects horses globally, was granted marketing authorization for the European Union in the autumn, followed by approvals for the United Kingdom, Norway and Iceland. “We have produced vaccine for launch in Sweden and European markets. Production has gone well and we expect the vaccine doses to be released in January

LINK Mobility strengthens self sign-up business by acquiring Spanish-based Altiria

Oslo, Norway – 14 December 2021, LINK Mobility (LINK) has today acquired Spanish based Altiria TIC, S.L. Altiria is active in the A2P SMS market in Spain and the EU, and is the market leader within NGOs in Spain, providing high quality and scalable mobile communications services through a self sign-up platform.Altiria was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Madrid. As a player in the A2P SMS market in Spain, with some activity in other Spanish speaking countries, the company provides web-based solutions which handle millions of messages per month through direct connections with national

Konecranes to modernize four polar reactor cranes for major US power utility

Konecranes was chosen for a $58.6 million modernization project for a major power utility in the United States. The utility has two polar reactor cranes in two different facilities that are in need of upgrades due to plant extensions. The customer is looking to increase lifting capacity and update the controls to variable frequency drives for smoother travelling motion and better load control. They also want new operator cabs with joystick controls for better ergonomics. The order was booked in December 2021. Konecranes successfully uprated two of the utility’s polar cranes in 2002 from

Comprehensive Safety Guidance Issued for Dangerous Goods Storage and Handling Facilities

14 December, 2021 - The tragic incidents in Tianjin and Beirut have marked a decade of increased concern over the safety of dangerous goods stored in ports, terminals and other warehousing facilities. Four industry groups have collaborated to address the issue and produce best practice guidelines in the form of a White Paper and Warehouse Checklist.In the face of increased volumes of dangerous goods transported in sea containers, and the occurrence of major incidents as well as a plethora of lesser accidents, there is a clear need for guidance on safe storage and handling of dangerous goods

Gaming Innovation Group signs platform agreement with retail player Rank Entertainment Holdings

Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG) has today signed a long-term agreement with Rank Entertainment Holdings, for the provision of GiG’s iGaming platform technologies to power its continued growth worldwide, opening up new markets to the existing Marina888 brand.  The agreement will include the provision of GiG’s player account management (PAM), the delivery of the frontend, via the CMS, and managed services, including media and business operations. The agreement between GiG and Rank is based on a revenue share model and has a minimum duration of five years.  Rank Entertainment is a

Horizon Fund offers students a helping hand

Staffordshire University students in need of a helping hand have been given a cash boost to support their studiesStudents across Staffordshire University have been awarded bursaries and scholarships through the Horizon Fund  thanks to the generosity of donations from high profile supporters as well as contributions from staff, alumni and members of the public. This includes the Denise Coates Foundation, the fund’s longest standing major donor, which has provided significant support for high-achieving students from low-income families in

Calmark strengthens logistics and order processing in preparation of global launch

Calmark Sweden AB has hired Liana Rikberg for the role as Supply Chain Coordinator in order to strengthen its team for the global launch. Liana will take up position on January 10, 2022.Liana Rikberg has more than ten years of experience in logistics solutions from her employment at Federal Express (FedEx) where her work involved imports, exports, order management and invoicing. Liana Rikberg has also worked as Supply Chain Administrator at Hamamatsu. Liana is currently a consultant for Academic Work and has been working for Calmark in this role since October 1. “I am so happy to be part

BICO Endorses FDA Modernization Act of 2021

The legislation would end the mandate on animal testing for drug and cosmetic development in the United States and has the potential save the lives of hundreds of millions of animals each year BICO, a leading bio convergence company, announced today it is endorsing the bipartisan FDA Modernization Act of 2021. The bill, H.R. 2565 / S.2952, would allow drug and cosmetic makers to develop new products using non-animal models including cell-based assays, organ chips and micro physiological systems, sophisticated computer modelling, and other human biology-based test methods. Since its

The Paperworkers’ Union issues a strike announcement for several UPM businesses in Finland

(UPM, Helsinki, 14 December 2021 at 16:00 EET) – The Finnish Paperworkers’ Union has issued a strike announcement to UPM, declaring a strike to all work under the expiring paper industry collective agreement at UPM. The strike would start at the mills on Saturday 1 January 2022 at 6.00 EET except at the Lappeenranta biorefinery, where the strike would start on 1 January 2022 at 7.00 EET. The strike would end on 22 January 2022, at 6:00 EET, unless an agreement for a new collective agreement is reached before then. Should the strike materialise, UPM strives to meet customer demand

Correction: Metso Outotec's financial reporting and AGM in 2022

Metso Outotec Corporation’s stock exchange release on December 14, 2021, at 3:45 p.m. EETEarlier announced stock exchange release concerning Metso Outotec’s financial reporting and AGM in 2022 included wrong dates for the Half-Year Financial Report for January - June 2022 and Interim Report for January – September 2022.The whole announcement with corrected dates can be found below. Metso Outotec Corporation will publish its financial reports in 2022 as follows: · Financial Statements Review for 2021 on February 10, 2022 · Annual Report for 2021 during the week of March 14 ·

Supply chain partners in constructive dialogue to overcome logistics challenges

Brussels, 14 December 2021 - Shippers and carriers met yesterday to talk about the causes and effects of recent supply chain disruption coinciding with the COVID 19 pandemic. The meeting brought together a broad representation of members from the European Shippers Council (ECS) and the World Shipping Council (WSC) and the Secretariat of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA). This is the first of a planned series of meetings between shippers and carriers, in a joint effort to find solutions through dialogue and improve mutual understanding of the challenges each party faces.

Caverion to acquire the business of Frödéns Ventilation AB in Sweden

Caverion Corporation Investor news 14 December 2021 at 3.15 p.m. EETCaverion to acquire the business of Frödéns Ventilation AB in Sweden Caverion has today signed an agreement to acquire the business of the Swedish company Frödéns Ventilation AB. The acquisition is a bolt-on acquisition for Caverion in ventilation business in Sweden. Within the growing area of ventilation, Frödéns offers service and maintenance, inspections, energy optimisations and smaller projects, mainly in the Jönköping area. Frödéns was founded in 1969 and has 12 employees. Its two owners have now decided to sell

Garmin joins the FIA Smart Driving Challenge to promote safe and environmentally friendly driving

The FIA Smart Driving Challenge (FIA SDC), an initiative from Swedish insurtech Greater Than and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), promoting safe and eco-friendly driving, announces a strategic collaboration with world leading GPS navigation technology company Garmin®, which will be joining the challenge as the Global Official Timing Partner.The FIA SDC aims to raise awareness about the impact you have when driving and how you can save lives and our planet by making small changes in the way you drive. The technology, provided by Greater Than, measures every drive in real-

Quickbit launches Quickbit App on the norwegian market

Quickbit is now launching the Quickbit App on the Norwegian market and enables Norwegian consumers to buy, exchange, send and receive cryptocurrency in a few seconds. In August, the Quickbit App was made widely available to the public on the Swedish market. The Quickbit App is now also available for consumers in the Norwegian market. With Norwegian BankID, Norwegian consumers can download the app and start using cryptocurrencies immediately. In connection with this, the Quickbit App will be available in both the App Store and Play Store in Norway and supports the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin,

Konecranes to modernize four polar reactor cranes for major US power utility

Konecranes was chosen for a $58.6 million modernization project for a major power utility in the United States. The utility has two polar reactor cranes in two different facilities that are in need of upgrades due to plant extensions. The customer is looking to increase lifting capacity and update the controls to variable frequency drives for smoother travelling motion and better load control. They also want new operator cabs with joystick controls for better ergonomics.This is not the first time Konecranes completed a major project for this utility. Konecranes successfully uprated two of

Skanska signs construction contract for the metro’s new Barkarby extension in Stockholm, Sweden, worth about SEK 900M

Skanska has signed a contract with the Stockholm Regional Council to do frame completion and tunnel installations in the extension of the blue metro line from Akalla to Barkarby in Stockholm, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 900M, which is included in the order bookings for Sweden in the fourth quarter of 2021.The contract includes the production of design and documentation for lifts, escalators and cable cars at the new stations Barkarby and Barkarbystaden. The extension of the metro’s blue line will go completely underground and the stations will be approximately 30 meters below

Citycon decided on a quarterly distribution

CITYCON OYJ   Inside information   14 December 2021 at 15:00 hrsThe Board of Directors of Citycon Oyj has today decided, on the basis of the authorisation by the Annual General Meeting 2021, that an equity repayment of EUR 0.1250 per share be distributed from the invested unrestricted equity fund of the company. The equity repayment will be paid to a shareholder registered in the company’s shareholders’ register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on the record date for the equity repayment 16 December 2021. The equity repayment will be paid on 30 December 2021.Following the asset

24SevenOffice has achieved the ISO 27001 certification

24SevenOffice has achieved the ISO/IEC 27001:2017 certification, the internationally recognized standard for information security management, for both our Norwegian and Swedish operations.This emphasizes 24SevenOffice’s ongoing focus towards larger and more complex enterprise clients and further enables the exciting growth journey ahead.  “We are proud of this achievement and it affirms our commitment to security. I am pleased to announce that we achieved this certification without any deviation from the accredited auditing firm Kiwa”, says Eirik Aalvik Stranden, CEO at 24SevenOffice.

First patient dosed in the MIV-818 combination study

Stockholm, Sweden — Medivir AB (Nasdaq Stockholm: MVIR) today announced that the first patient with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been dosed with MIV-818 in a phase 1b/2a combination study with the company's candidate drug MIV-818. In the study, MIV-818 will be given in combination with two other medicines, either with Lenvima®, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, or with Keytruda®, an anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor. Lenvima® and Keytruda®, respectively, are currently approved as monotherapy treatments of HCC*. The purpose of the study is to evaluate safety, tolerability and also to get an

World Water Week 2022 - Seeing the unseen: The value of water

23 August – 1 September in Stockholm and online Almost all aspects of a sustainable future are linked to water. And to bring about the lasting change our planet needs, all sectors of society must come together in a massive transformation of human and societal activities. To be able to do this, we must understand the challenges we are faced with, and we must learn to appreciate the preciousness of what we have. We must learn to value water.To contribute to this, the theme for World Water Week 2022  is: Seeing the

Advances in sleep disorder diagnostics: simpler measurements, more accurate analyses

Sleep disorders and insufficient sleep are major global problems contributing to, e.g., increased health care costs and sick leaves, and reduced quality of life. According to recent estimates, sleep apnoea alone affects approximately 1 billion people worldwide, and up to half of the world’s population suffers from insomnia at some point in their lives. In Finland alone, sleep apnoea is estimated to affect the lives of nearly 1.5 million people despite most of them remaining undiagnosed. Simpler and more cost-effective methods for screening and diagnosing sleep disorders are urgently needed.

XMReality now integrated with Salesforce

XMReality Remote Guidance is now available in Salesforce, an integration making XMReality a natural part of already established support processes. This enables service agents and field technicians working in Salesforce to quickly start a Remote Guidance call and solve customers' support requests faster. XMReality’s customers can now easily make Remote Guidance an integrated part of their existing workflows.The integration is highly flexible and can be adjusted by each customer according to their needs and their own Salesforce setup. It can be used by those customers that today use

Container number 1 million from China via Russia to Europe in Nurminen Logistics container train

In 2021, the millionth container from China to Europe via Russia arrived today to Vuosaari harbor as a part of the Nurminen Logistics train from Chongqing to Helsinki.As a result, the volume of transit container traffic in the Russian rail network has now reached 1 million TEU per year, and it is a record throughout the history of Russian railways. Car components, retail equipment, consumer goods, and other items were on board of the train. Nurminen provided its train customers with a comprehensive service: deliveries within China, use of containers, cargo stuffing, delivery with a

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