Gothenburg charges its batteries
The market for electric-powered vehicles will reach 53,000 billion dollars by 2050 according to Bloomberg. And many are interested in getting a share of the market.Gothenburg is charging its batteries to position itself in the markets for electrified mobility – which include companies, academia, the city and the Swedish state.
Chalmers is something of a catalyst. Many of Sweden’s biggest and most innovative companies in electromobility have founders and employees who studied there. Also, Research Institutes of Sweden, RISE, has its headquarters in Gothenburg, which has the country's
Elkem ASA has acquired VUM, a Slovak producer of carbon materials. The transaction will further increase Elkem’s capacity and competence in attractive specialty markets and increase its flexibility in the supply chain. Elkem expects the acquisition to contribute with an additional turnover of around NOK 360 million per year.VUM was founded in 1954 and currently has around 65 employees at a plant located near the town of Žiar nad Hronom in the centre of Slovakia. The company is an independent producer of carbon-based materials for industrial smelters, including anode paste, electrode paste
Gasum has inaugurated a new biogas filling station today, June 9, in Ålesund municipality, on the western coast of Norway. Gasum has collaborated with Posten, the Norwegian postal service, and ÅRIM, a waste management company, to open the new gas filling station. The station is Gasum’s fourth LBG filling station in Norway, and part of the ever-expanding filling station network.The new station caters to logistics companies operating in the region as well as to long-haul traffic from Ålesund through Trondheim or Oslo all the way to Sweden. It is situated in the Digerneset Næringspark
