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Nexam Chemical in the trade magazine Plastics Recycling

Nexam Chemicals products and technology are included in an article about how the market trend with recycled plastics increase the need for additives that can enhance the properties of the recycled plastics.The article ”The expanding role of compatibilizers” describes how additives are becoming more and more sophisticated and enable increased use of recycled plastics with maintained properties. In the article, Nexam Chemicals CMO, Lars Öhrn describes how used and recycled polymer chains breaks down into smaller parts and that Nexam Chemicals technology with chain extenders can mend and

Vattenfall is switching its whole car fleet to electric vehicles

Over 3.500 passenger vehicles and light commercial vehicles in Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany will be replaced by electric alternatives over a period of five years.With this important step Vattenfall takes a great leap forward towards its sustainable ambitions to be climate neutral by 2050. Vattenfall has been active in E-mobility since 2009 and has invested heavily in electric transport because of its enormous potential to contribute to the energy transition and the reduction of CO2-emissions. “We already help our customers drive electric by supplying charging points. With the

Discover the updated Thule RoundTrip collection of ski, snowboard and boot bags

Thule RoundTrip offers stellar protection and interior organization for your skis, snowboards, and boots. With Thule RoundTrip, you can rest assured that your gear will arrive safely at your destination.Your ski, snowboard and boot bags are work horses that you depend on to get your gear safely to your destination and back home again. Nothing can ruin a trip more quickly than a busted bag or worse yet, broken equipment. Thule went to great lengths to engineer a bag that’s durable, dependable and functional. Dedicated pole sleeves, ski sleeves, accessory pockets and a crushproof SafeZone

SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge – Invitation to presentation of preliminary annual accounts 2016

Time: Wednesday 15 February at 17.00 pm Address: Oslo Militære Samfunds Selskapslokaler, Myntgaten 3, Oslo The presentation will be made by CEO Jan-Frode Janson and CFO Rolf Eigil Bygdnes. The presentation will also be made by webcast. The link will appear on www.snn.no  under investor. After the presentation all participants are cordially invited for dinner (North Norwegian cod, liver and roe). With regard

University of Washington Medical Center selects RayStation

The Department of Radiation Oncology at UW Medical Center has purchased RayStation®, which will become its primary clinical radiation therapy treatment planning system and research platform in 2017. RayStation will be used for all external beam treatment planning at the University of Washington. The system will feature several advanced functionalities, including adaptive planning, deformable registration, fallback planning and the unique Plan Explorer tool.  Plan Explorer enables automatic generation of a large number of high-quality treatment plans for different treatment techniques and

Outokumpu stainless steel secures public transportation in Stockholm for the future

OUTOKUMPU OYJPRESS RELEASEFebruary 6, 2017 at 10 am EET Outokumpu delivers 600 tonnes of Forta LDX2404 stainless steel for renovating the Söderströmsbron in Stockholm, Sweden. The bridge complex, connecting Stockholm Old town to the Södermalm district, consists of four railway bridges that need to be renovated. The 174-meter long bridges, built originally of carbon steel in 1957, are critical for the city’s subway traffic: daily over 330,000 trips are made via the bridge. The bridge is now being repaired for safer travel and higher traffic volumes in the future. Old bridge beams

Polygiene appoints Nick Brosnan as European marketing director

Polygiene appoints Nick Brosnan to lead their marketing efforts in Europe. The position of Director of Marketing, Europe, is critical to the company’s strategy to bolster commercial activities in the region. With Brosnan’s appointment, Polygiene is reinforcing their operational presence in Europe that in turn, strengthens its global brand.Based at the head office in Malmö, Brosnan is responsible for Polygiene’s marketing activities in Europe and supports the regional sales team led by Haymo Strubel, the company’s recently appointed director of sales for Europe. “We see interesting

Reclassification of specification of Net cash flow used in investing activities in SKF Year-end report 2016

Gothenburg, 6 February 2017: SKF announces a reclassification between lines in the specification of the "Net cash flow used in investing activities" in the SKF Year-end report 2016. The changes refer to page 11 of the report, under the headline “Condensed consolidated statement of cash flow”. The changes do not impact the Net cash flow used in investing activities, which remains SEK -751 million for Oct-Dec 2016 and SEK 567 million for Jan-Dec 2016. The following lines are affected by the reclassification: As Reclassified As Reclassified

Q-FREE - CLOSING OF SECURITY DIVISION DIVESTMEMT

Norway 6 February 2017 Reference is made to the Stock Exchange Announcement on 30 January 2017, where Q-Free informed that it had signed an agreement to sell all assets related to its security business Prometheus Security Group Inc. (“PSG”) at a net consideration of NOK 10 million.The announced transaction has now been closed, and all contracts, employees, and other assets have been transferred to the new owner. PSG will be excluded from Q-Free Group’s operating results with effect from fourth quarter 2016 and be reported as “discontinued operations”.  In 2016 PSG had revenues of NOK

Medivir Capital Markets Meeting on 23 February 2017

Stockholm, Sweden — Medivir AB (OMX: MVIR) today announces that a Capital Markets Meeting will be arranged for investors, analysts and journalists, on Thursday 23 February, at 2pm - 4pm CEST, in Stockholm.  CEO Niklas Prager and the management team will present a summary of the company’s strategy, platforms and projects and finances after the transformation of the company in 2016. After the presentation there will be a break-out session on the presented projects. Time: Thursday 23 February, at 2pm - 4pm CESTVenue: IVAs Conference Center, Grev Turegatan 16, StockholmInvitation for:

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING AT SCANDINAVIAN ENVIRO SYSTEMS AB (publ)

N.B. The English text is an in-house translation of the original Swedish text. Should there be any disparities between the Swedish and the English text, the Swedish text shall prevail. Shareholders of Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB (publ) (the Company), co. reg. no. 556605-6726, are hereby invited to the Extraordinary General Meeting on Monday, February 27, 2017 at 16:00 in the Trubaduren room at the Hotel Kusten, Kustgatan 10, SE 414 55 Gothenburg, Sweden. Registration for the meeting will commence at 15:30. The reason for the notice to attend is the Company’s new principal owner’s

Clas Ohlson launches extended child safety assortment

The demand for safety- and security products is increasing among Clas Ohlson’s customers and now the company takes a new step within this product category by launching new smart products for child safety.To a child, the entire home is an exciting world waiting to be explored, but even the most common things could become a risk for the youngest. This is why Clas Ohlson introduces several new products that help reduce the risk of, for instance, crushing injuries  and injuries from falling. There are also clever stops and locks 

Yggdrasil Gaming signs deal with Marathonbet

Yggdrasil Gaming has signed a deal with Marathonbet to supply the operator with its full suite of HTML5 video slots across UK and dot com markets.The games will be integrated via the supplier’s industry-changing iSENSE 2.0 HTML5 framework, allowing them to be launched simultaneously on desktop and mobile. Marathonbet, which last year launched a co-branded Marathonbet / Manchester United online live casino, will also gain access to the supplier’s collection of in-game promotional tools, BOOST™, including the recently-launched Missions feature, and the social sharing tool BRAG. Fredrik

Aker ASA: Fully funded restructuring plan for Farstad Shipping agreed

Key stakeholders to seek combination of Solstad Offshore, Farstad Shipping and Deep Sea Supply, creating a world leading OSV compan.Farstad Shipping ASA (“Farstad Shipping”), Aker Capital AS (“Aker”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Aker ASA, Hemen Holding Limited (“Hemen”) (a company indirectly controlled by trusts established by Mr. John Fredriksen for the benefit of his immediate family), as well as Farstad Shipping’s senior lenders, substantial parts of its bondholders, and F-Shiplease AS (a subsidiary of Ocean Yield ASA), have entered into an agreement (the “Restructuring Agreement”) for

Promising results for Temodex, drug candidate against brain cancer, after completion of the first MGMT study

Preliminary results indicate that there is no significant difference in survival between MGMT methylation-positive and negative patients treated with Temodex, and that all patients who received Temodex had a significantly better survival than the control group when both DNA and protein data for MGMT were taken into account. This result will later this year be presented at scientific meetings and in scientific journals. Further studies on a larger group of patients are scheduled to start shortly. "MGMT status permits to distinguish patients who respond well or respond poorly to standard-

US Imaging Services Provider Selects Sectra as its Enterprise Imaging Vendor

Linköping, Sweden and Shelton, CT – February 6, 2017 –  International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra  (STO: SECT B) announces that Cascade Medical Imaging, LLC (CMI) has purchased Sectra Enterprise Imaging for Radiology. This solution will offer scalability for growth and provide a single platform for all clinicians to access patient images and information.CMI delivers imaging services in numerous facilities located throughout central and eastern Oregon, US. Services offered include General X-ray, MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, PET-CT, Ultrasound,

Starbreeze Publishing signs Double Fine’s highly anticipated Psychonauts 2

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (February 6, 2017) Starbreeze AB, an independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products, has signed a publishing agreement with Double Fine Productions regarding the game Psychonauts 2, to be released in 2018. Starbreeze will invest 8 MUSD to bring the game to PC and other console platforms through digital distribution.   Starbreeze will be the major investor in the project, which also has been funded by Double Fine itself, as well as through a successful crowdfunding Fig campaign  in which

Hexagon’s Nomination Committee proposes new Board of Directors

Hexagon AB’s Nomination Committee proposes the election of John Brandon, Henrik Henriksson, Hans Vestberg, Sofia Schörling Högberg and Märta Schörling Andreen as new members to Hexagon’s Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2017. Furthermore, the Nomination Committee proposes reelection of Ulrika Francke, Jill Smith, Gun Nilsson and Ola Rollén as Board of Directors. As previously announced, Melker Schörling will leave the Board as of the AGM 2017 due to health reasons. The Nomination Committee proposes Gun Nilsson as the new Chairman and Hans Vestberg as Vice Chairman.

Invitation to presentation of Bactiguard’s year end report for 2016 on February 9, 2017

Bactiguard Holding AB (publ) publishes the year end report for 2016 on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 8:00 CET.In connection with this, a conference call for investors, analysts and media will be held at 10:00 CET on February 9. CEO Christian Kinch and CFO Fredrik Järrsten will present the report and answer questions. The year end report and a presentation for the conference call will be available at Bactiguard’s website www.bactiguard.com from 8:00 CET the same day.   To participate in the conference call, please dial +46 8 566 426 99 For further information, please contact:

“Snus” users run greater risk of type 2 diabetes

[PRESS RELEASE, 6 FEBRUARY 2017] Consuming one or more pot of “snus” – Swedish snuff or dipping tobacco – per day increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 70 per cent. This is the same risk increase as previously seen for smokers who smoke one packet of cigarettes a day. The study on the effects of snus was conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and their colleagues at Umeå and Lund universities in Sweden, and is published in The Journal of Internal Medicine.According to figures from the Public Health Agency of Sweden, 19 per cent of men and 4 per cent of women in

Sweco expands in Finland

Sweco is acquiring the business of Karves Yhtiöt Ltd and the total share capital of its subsidiaries Karves Suunnittelu Ltd and Karves Energia & Valvonta Ltd. These Finnish companies have more than 50 employees specialising in design and expert renovation services, as well as energy efficiency and life cycle services for housing companies. Sweco is thereby further strengthening its offering and presence in the Finnish market.“The acquisition of Karves Companies is an exciting and logical step towards strengthening our position as the leading engineering and architecture consultancy in

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Culligan Middle East selects IFS Applications to modernize and support company growth

Leading global water treatment management company to deploy IFS Applications across its Middle East operations IFS , the global enterprise applications company, today announced that the Middle East division of Culligan  has selected IFS Applications™ 9  to optimize its business units and support company growth.Culligan Middle East is a water treatment specialist with manufacturing, equipment sales, and field service divisions. The company will be implementing IFS Applications for

Handelsbanken’s year-end report for January-December 2016 will be presented on February 8

Handelsbanken will present its results for January­‑December 2016 in Stockholm on February 8, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. CET, at a meeting with the media and analysts. The year-end report for January‑December 2016 will be published at 7:00 a.m. CET, on February 8, 2017. A telephone conference will be held at 11:00 a.m. CET (5:00 a.m. EST), when Rolf Marquardt, CFO, will present and comment on the results. There will also be time for questions from the participants. UK number: +44 203–364 5374Swedish number: +46 8–505 564 74US number: +1 855–753 2230 Instructions1.    Dial +xx xxx

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