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Scania and Rio Tinto trialling autonomous truck in Western Australian mine

Scania is testing a new generation autonomous transport system at Rio Tinto’s Dampier Salt operations in Western Australia.The first phase of the trial started in August 2018 and involves a Scania XT 8x4 autonomous tipper truck working separately from Dampier’s active operations. During this initial stage, a safety driver rides in the vehicle to observe the truck’s performance and, if necessary, intervenes. In subsequent phases, additional autonomous Scania trucks will be added to develop vehicle-vehicle awareness and intelligent fleet supervisory controls. Rio Tinto head of

Automotive Interiors Leader Faurecia Licenses TactoTek® Injection Molded Structural Electronics (IMSE™)

Faurecia to design and manufacture IMSE solutionsOULU, FINLAND/MERU, FRANCE (19 December 2018) – Today, TactoTek® announced that Faurecia, one of the world’s leading automotive technology companies, has signed a licensing agreement to design and manufacture IMSE solutions for its automotive customers. “Faurecia is investing persistently in ‘plastronics’—integrating electronic functions into plastics and decorative surfaces—because it enables us to deliver the solutions our customers want for styling and controls into thin, lightweight, 3-dimensional parts,” noted David Weill, VP

Biofuel used for refuelling at five Swedavia airports

Starting 19 December bio aviation fuel will be used for a couple of days at Swedish airports Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Göteborg Landvetter Airport, Bromma Stockholm Airport, Visby Airport and Luleå Airport. Swedavia is one of only a few companies in the world that have been supplied with aviation biofuel during 2018. Swedavia’s delivery of biofuel, made from used cooking oil, will refuel aircrafts at five of the company’s airports in December. That makes these Swedavia airports some of the only ones in the world that will use a percentage of biofuel to refuel aircraft serving them

Inhalation Sciences’ new Board member brings Medtech Sales & Marketing drive, insight and experience

“The best way to get people to like and approve the product is to get them to try it out for themselves”. Meet Manoush Masarrat, ISAB’s new Board member. With extensive experience in medtech, including the asthma and inhalation market, Manoush will be encouraging ISAB to think outside the box in his area of outstanding expertise—strategic Sales and Marketing.Manoush Masarrat has over 15 years’ leadership experience in Medtech with a firm focus on strategic Sales & Marketing. He is currently CEO of ExScale Bio Spec AB. His earlier role as Managing Director for ElectorCore AB included work in

Adverty signs advertising deal with Fetch and Mozilla to promote the Firefox Reality browser in Virtual Reality

Adverty, the leading immersive advertising platform for mobile, VR and AR, has launched a new advertising campaign with Mozilla to promote the Firefox Reality browser within its ever-growing VR network of games and apps. The deal is signed with Mozilla’s media agency Fetch, a Dentsu Aegis network owned mobile specialist. The order value is not significant and therefore not disclosed.Firefox Reality, a browser designed for use in a VR headset, was released in September this year and targets users of Virtual Reality. The advertising campaign runs through Adverty’s platform and uses images and

Dignitana Partners with ThermoTek to Develop Next Generation in Scalp Cooling

DigniCap Delta brings advanced cooling technology to minimize hair loss from chemotherapyDignitana AB , manufacturer of The DigniCap® Scalp Cooling System, has partnered with ThermoTek , Inc. to develop the DigniCap Delta, an advanced model of the 2015 FDA-cleared DigniCap Scalp Cooling System, featuring a new single-patient use cap design and a smaller, more streamlined single-patient machine. U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration clearance for the new device is anticipated in spring 2019. As contract development and manufacturing

Brighter continues to grow in the United Arab Emirates – recruits Medical Supervisor.

Brighter recruits Irene Kidhall Bragd as Medical Supervisor in the United Arab Emirates. Irene is a Senior Consultant and specialist in internal medicine, with deep knowledge in treatment of chronic conditions, and has worked in Danderyd Hospital in Stockholm for almost 25 years. "Irene, with her extensive experience in healthcare, provides vital knowledge and security that will be of great value when healthcare professionals and users for the first time in a real-life situation come into contact with Actiste. We are very pleased to have her with us," says Truls Sjöstedt, Brighter's CEO

Epiroc and Ericsson cooperate on optimizing wireless technology for mines

Stockholm, Sweden: Epiroc, a leading productivity partner for the mining, infrastructure and natural resources industries, has signed a cooperation agreement with leading communications technology provider Ericsson to jointly help mining companies achieve optimal wireless connectivity in their operations through LTE and 5G technologies.Mining companies are increasingly seeking to digitalize and automate their operations to increase productivity, enhance operator safety and lower cost. This includes, for example, remotely operating machines from a control room, and collecting machine

Caverion to sell its subsidiary in Poland to Strabag

Caverion Corporation Investor news 19 December 2018 at 9.30 a.m. EETCaverion to sell its subsidiary in Poland to Strabag Caverion has signed an agreement to sell the entire share capital of its Polish subsidiary to STRABAG PFS Austria GmbH, part of the publicly listed construction and technology group STRABAG SE. “Poland has not been a very significant market for Caverion and we have been a small player in the country. Divesting the subsidiary in Poland is a part of our strategy implementation to improve our financial performance and focus on our core businesses in our main market

Finnair's Board of Directors decided on new periods to the employee share savings plan and incentive scheme for key personnel

Finnair Plc                  Stock Exchange Release                 19 December 2018 at 9.15 am. EET  Employee share plan  The Board of Directors of Finnair Plc has decided to launch a new 12-month savings period under the Employee Share Savings Plan. The purpose of the plan introduced in 2013 is to encourage the employees to become shareholders in the company, to provide long-term rewards through potential share price appreciation and thereby strengthen the employees’ interest in the development of Finnair’s shareholder value.  Participation in the share savings plan is voluntary.

HIDDN: Tore Etholm-Idsøe appointed as SPV of Tactilis

(Oslo, 19 December 2018) Tactilis Pte. Limited (Tactilis) has appointed Tore Etholm-Idsøe as new Senior Vice President. Reference is made to the newly announced LOI with Tactilis for a potential business combination with Hiddn Solution ASA (Hiddn, OSE:HIDDN). Tactilis announces today that Tore Etholm-Idsøe has been appointed Senior Vice President of the company. For more information, please refer to the press release from Tactilis and stock exchange notice from Next Biometrics. For further information, please contact:Carl Espen Wollebekk, CEO of Hiddn, telephone: + 47 930 55 505 /

Artificial intelligence for better identification of road traffic disturbances

Artificial intelligence can be applied to enable the better detection of road traffic disturbances in real-time without significantly adding costs, a test by the Finnish Transport Agency and Tieto has shown. The findings were the result of a Proof of Concept experiment conducted by the two organizations in the spring of 2018 that combined LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) measurement technology with sensor fusion and artificial intelligence techniques to analyze traffic flows.  Aiming for a safe mobility environment Traffic situations deviating from the usual constitute a

ASSA ABLOY acquires Luxer One in the US

ASSA ABLOY has acquired Luxer One, a leading advanced package locker solutions business in the US. "I am very pleased to welcome Luxer One into the ASSA ABLOY Group. Luxer One constitutes a strategic addition to the Group and reinforces our position in solutions for home delivery,” says Nico Delvaux, President and CEO of ASSA ABLOY. "Luxer One is the market leading company in the last mile delivery space in the US," says Lucas Boselli, Executive Vice President of ASSA ABLOY and Head of the Americas Division. “Luxer One provides us with good synergistic opportunities in significant

Ahlsell's independent bid committee appoints advisers

Following the public offer to shareholders of Ahlsell AB (publ), submitted by Quimper AB on December 11, 2018, the independent bid committee has appointed financial and legal advisers. The bid committee has appointed Nordea Bank Abp, filial i Sverige, Advisory & ECM (“Nordea”) as financial adviser and Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB as legal adviser. The advisers will assist the committee in its assessment of the offer, and Nordea will issue a fairness opinion to the independent bid committee. The independent bid committee representing Ahlsell in connection with the offer consists

NetEnt appoints Lars Johansson as Chief Financial Officer

Lars Johansson, who recently took on the role as interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has now been appointed CFO of NetEnt.After a thorough search process, Lars Johansson has now been appointed Chief Financial Officer of NetEnt. Lars Johansson has held the position as interim CFO since September 3, 2018. Lars Johansson has more than 30 years of experience from numerous management positions in various sectors, in both public and private companies – most recently from Ratos AB – where he held the position as Senior Investment Director and prior to that as acting CEO. Some of his previous

MORE AIRPORTS CAN STAY OPEN THANKS TO NEW AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS

Semcon will be developing new autonomous solutions to help airports reduce their costs and make them safer. This time, the company will be devising smart ways to clear snow from landing lights using autonomous vehicles. This is a time-consuming job at present that has to be carried out manually. The aim is to allow more airports to stay open.“It may seem like a little thing, but runways are shut down if 15 per cent of their lights are disabled – and that results in significant delays and costs money. There are major benefits to be gained by using autonomous solutions here, not least when it

Haltian closes USD 5 Million $ (Euro 4,5M€) funding round at Slush 2018 to accelerate enterprise IoT solutions business on it´s Thingsee IoT Platform

Finnish VC company Inventure leads USD 5 Million $ (4,5 M€ ) funding round to Haltian by investing  3 million euros, followed by a group of existing and new investors. Haltian expects rapid growth and the investment is meant to multiple the company revenues within next years. The company aims at becoming the leading solution provider in selected enterprise IoT markets.Easy to scale commercial IoT solutions Haltian offers a unique data collection solution to Enterprise digitalization projects. As an expert in both IoT hardware and software and the developer of Thingsee IoT platform

He will challenge management

Niclas Ingeström joins Castellum as new CDO with responsibility for IT, Next20 lab and the project office, but his main focus will be on challenging management.In 2017, Castellum adopted a goal to be industry leader in digitalization by 2020. At the beginning of 2018, the real estate industry's first innovation lab, Next20, was created at Castellum with the chief task of developing new digital services.“The Next20 lab is developing ideas, and we’ve already taken some of them to market. One example is Beambox, a new and smart way of storing your stuff. With a Beambox app, you can list your

New Chief Economist at Handelsbanken

Christina Nyman has been appointed as the new Chief Economist at Handelsbanken. She is currently the Bank’s Head of Forecasting. Ann Öberg has been appointed Head of a new, Group-wide analysis unit – Global Research – which includes macro research, equity research and credit research. She will therefore be leaving her position as Chief Economist and Head of Economic Research. Lena Fahlén has been appointed the new Head of Economic Research. Her current role is the Bank’s Deputy Head of Economic Research.For further information, please contact: Ann Öberg, Head of Global Research,

THE MARKETING GROUP PLC: Completion of Fund Raise

LONDON: 19 December 2018 – The Marketing Group plc (the “Company” or the “Group”), which trades as RYVL, is pleased to announce that, further to the announcement made on 6 December 2018 regarding the acquisition of Blockchain Nordic (the “Acquisition”), together with a share placing and conditional placing, that the unconditional share placing has been completed. As outlined in the 6 December 2018 announcement, the Company has now completed an unconditional placing, which is not subject to shareholder approval, of 13,000,000 shares at a per share price of €0.0225 to raise €292,500.

Insplorion and Leading Light starts collaboration to take smart lighting with air quality sensors to the market

Leading Light are today selling smart lighting systems to cities and municipalities that aim to reduce their environmental impact through efficient energy management for their lighting solutions. Insplorion’s air quality sensor fits into Leading Lights products both due to their customers environmental awareness as well as the simple integration to the existing technical platform."We are very happy to have our first commercial collaboration for our NOX sensor with Leading Light. It is a natural step from the developments within the LoV-IoT project where we have seen the increased interest

Skanska signs new tenant lease at Capitol Tower in Houston, Texas, USA

Skanska has signed a 15-year lease with Winston & Strawn LLP for 5,800 square meters at its Capitol Tower office development in Houston, Texas, USA. The law firm will take occupancy in 2020. With this transaction, the office portion of the building is now 81 percent leased.Currently under construction, Capitol Tower is a 35-story office tower in a prime downtown Houston location with about 70,000 square meters of office space and 2,400 square meters of retail space. The office is the first project in Texas to reach LEED v4 Platinum precertification from the U.S. Green Building Council (

The Board of Directors of Tikkurila resolved on performance share plan amendments and details of performance period 2019-2021

Tikkurila OyjStock Exchange ReleaseDecember 19, 2018 at 9:00 (CET+1)The Board of Directors of Tikkurila resolved on performance share plan amendments and details of performance period 2019-2021 The Board of Directors of Tikkurila Oyj launched the Performance Share Plan 2018-2022 for the Group key employees in June 2018. The Board of Directors resolved to amend the terms and conditions of the plan in order to convert a proportion of the reward of the performance period 2019-2021 into a time-based reward. The potential performance-based rewards from the performance period 2019-2021

Implementation of IFRS 16 Leases, Kesko Group’s restated comparison figures for January-September 2018

IFRS 16 Leases takes effect on 1 January 2019. The standard addresses the definition, recognition and measurement of lease agreements and other information given in relation to lease agreements in financial statements. According to the standard, the lessee recognises in its balance sheet right-of-use assets and financial liabilities. This release provides information on the impact of the implementation of the standard on Kesko Group’s IFRS financial statements after the financial statements for the 2018 reporting period, as well as the restated comparison figures for January-September 2018

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