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The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has joined a financing facility for the Finnish shipyard company Meyer Turku Oy (Meyer) with a EUR 102 million participation. The two-year facility will finance the construction of ICON 3 cruise ship. The shipyard in Turku is directly and indirectly important for Finland’s marine cluster through subcontractors, that are mostly Finnish companies. Its employment effect is significant. “Finland’s marine cluster is strong, and the Turku shipyard is an integral part of this. In addition to cruise ships, Meyer and the Turku shipyard also has expertise in

Study published in Nature Communications: Nightingale Health outperforms genetic testing in chronic disease risk detection and makes the promise of preventative health a reality

Nightingale Health Plc Press release 4 December 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (EET) Nightingale Health Plc’s (“Nightingale Health”) peer-reviewed study has been published in Nature Communications, showcasing the accuracy and performance of Nightingale Health’s blood biomarker-based risk prediction models. The world’s largest population study in the field includes data from more than 700,000 participants in three national biobanks from Finland, Estonia and the United Kingdom. The population study findings show that Nightingale Health’

Operations of Metsä Group’s Suolahti plywood mill to close down in stages

The statutory negotiations concerning Metsä Wood’s Suolahti plywood mill, part of Metsä Group, which began in October, have ended. After the statutory negotiations, the company decided to close down the operations of the birch plywood mill by the end of the first quarter of 2025, and operations at the spruce plywood mill will end by the end of 2026 at the latest. The statutory negotiations at the Suolahti mill concerned all the plywood mill’s employees, in total about 370 people. The negotiations covered the reasons for the closure of the plywood mill and the personnel arrangements

Sigma Technology Cloud Named a Winner of 2024 Nordic AWS Partner Awards

Sigma Technology Cloud, a specialized IT consulting company within cloud solutions, today announced that it was named a winner of the 2024 AWS Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year in Nordic, a regional AWS award recognizing partners that play a key role helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS.[Two women holding awards and posing for the camera Description automatically generated] Sigma Technology Cloud recognized by AWS Partners in Nordic as leaders in helping customers drive innovation AWS Regional Partner Awards recognize AWS’s Top Partners of

ZINZINO AB (PUBL.): PRELIMINARY SALES REPORT NOVEMBER 2024

Zinzino group revenue increased with a total of 26 %, compared with the previous year. The revenue in November for Zinzino's sales markets increased by 26 % and amounted to SEK 252.7 (201.1) million. Faun Pharma's external sales increased by 33 % and amounted to SEK 10.0 (7.5) million. Overall, the Group increased revenues by 26 % to SEK 262.7 (208.6) million compared with the previous year. Accumulated revenue for January – November 2024 increased by 21 % to SEK 1955.9 (1611.0) million. Revenues were distributed as follows: Regions,MSEK 24 23 Change YTD 2024

Discover Your Dream Patterns with Sleep Cycle: The World’s First Technology to Combine Breathing Patterns and Movement to Analyze Sleep Stages

Sleep Cycle, the leading sleep technology company, announces the rollout of Sleep Stages, a groundbreaking new technology that allows users to measure their sleep stages and how long they spend in the dream stage each night. This technology is the first to combine breathing patterns and movement sounds, with only a smartphone, to accurately identify sleep stages such as REM sleep (the phase where most dreaming occurs), light sleep, and deep sleep, offering users a deeper understanding of their sleep patterns.“How we sleep and how we dream fascinates many people – and with Sleep Cycle’s new

Merus Power Plc's responsible auditor changes

Merus Power Plc, company release, 4 December 2024 at 10 a.m. Moore Idman Oy, the firm of authorized public accountants acting as the auditor of Merus Power Plc, has appointed APA Jussi Savio as the responsible auditor. The change of responsible auditor will enter into force immediately. For more information: Kari Tuomala, CEO, kari.tuomala@meruspower.com, +358 20 735 4320 Aktia Alexander Corporate Finance Oy, Certified Adviser, +358 50 520 4098 Distribution: Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Key media Merus Power in brief: Merus Power is a technology

Volvo Cars' global sales up 5 per cent in November

Wed, Dec 04, 2024 08:41 CET

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 66,977 cars in November, up 5 per cent compared to the same period last year. The sales increase was primarily driven by Europe and the US. Sales in China declined, but the performance of the electrified range was solid. The company's sales of electrified models – fully electric and plug-in hybrid models – grew 40 per cent compared to the same period last year and accounted for 48 per cent of all cars sold during November. The share of fully electric cars constituted 21 per cent of all cars sold for the month. The total sales for the period of

Vestas Chief Financial Officer, Hans Martin Smith, to step down by end of 2024

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus, 04 December 2024Company Announcement no. 20/2024 After more than 20 years in the company, Hans Martin Smith has decided to step down as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) by end of 2024; a role he has held since 1 March 2022. Hans Martin Smith leaves the company having served as CFO during a challenging and volatile period where he helped Vestas turn a heavily loss-making 2022 into a profitable 2023 and oversee Vestas continuing its positive profitability trajectory in 2024.Vestas President and Chief Executive Officer, Henrik Andersen, says “I want to

WPTG Pioneers Advanced Municipal Revenue Enhancement Solutions across Africa

Wed, Dec 04, 2024 08:35 CET

White Pearl Technology Group AB (WPTG) provides insights into its innovative municipal digital transformation programs being implemented in Kenya and South Africa, highlighting the complex technical capabilities required for successful delivery.Technical Expertise Driving Innovation: • Data Scientists specialising in revenue pattern analysis and anomaly detection • AI/ML Engineers developing custom predictive models for municipal operations • IoT Integration Specialists connecting field devices with central systems • Municipal Operations Experts with deep African public sector

2024 Reading Trends: Pets take centre stage, joined by politicians and celebrities sharing troubles

The magazine and newspaper app Readly has compiled its annual reading trends report for 2024 showing that 442,000 digital issues were read 170 million times on the platform. Readership increased the most in categories such as Fashion & Beauty (+24%), Crosswords & Sudoku (22%) and News & Politics (+16%). The average subscriber spends 9 hours per month reading digitally on the app. While Celebrity & Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Cars & Motoring remain the most popular categories on Readly overall, other categories to see an increase in

Metsä Group makes a commitment within the Circular Economy Green Deal

Metsä Group has committed to the Circular Economy Green Deal. In the voluntary national initiative led by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, actors set targets for 2035 and commit to actions that promote a low-carbon circular economy. We are committed to investing in research and development related to the further processing of our industrial side streams. Our goal is that three significant products or solutions based on Metsä Group’s side streams will be commercialized by 2035. The product or solution can be commercialized either by

UPM and Luontokollektiivi Association restore 100 hectares of mire in Tohmajärvi, Finland

(UPM, Helsinki, 4 December 2024 at 09:30 EET) – UPM and the nature conservation organisation Luontokollektiivi are starting the restoration of the approximately 100-hectare Western Valkeasuo in Tohmajärvi, North Karelia, Finland. The restoration of the drained peatland, owned by UPM, will increase the biodiversity of the mire by restoring the mire ecosystem and reduce nutrient loads from Lake Polvijärvi and its downstream waterbodies and carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The restoration of the Western Valkeasuo is a co-funded EU project. [A forest with trees and bushes

Nordnet: Monthly statistics November

In November, Nordnet’s customers made 4,778,300 trades in listed financial instruments, which corresponds to 229,800 trades per day. New customers in November amounted to 19,600. The total number of new customers during 2024 is 232,800 gross and 210,000 net. The latter figure includes the sale of Nordnet’s unsecured lending portfolio to Ikano Bank on October 1. The total number of customers at the end of November was 2,072,900. Net savings for November was SEK 6.3 billion and the total net savings during 2024 is SEK 65.7 billion. The savings capital was SEK 1,034 billion and lending amounted

Metso launches modernized Anode Furnace with improved impurity removal and innovative reductant options to reduce emissions

Metso Corporation’s press release on December 4, 2024, at 09:00 a.m. EETMetso is launching a next-generation Anode Furnace for reducing CO\2 \emissions, improving impurity removal capabilities and bringing flexibility in treating secondary materials. The upgraded Anode Furnace is part of the Metso Plus offering. “Raw materials pose both great challenges and opportunities for copper smelters today. Whether it is bringing in new primary concentrates, utilizing existing ones with degrading quality, or integrating

H&M Foundation backs new report to guide textile industry towards circularity and decarbonisation

Stockholm, 4 December 2024 – A first-of-its-kind report authored by Circle Economy and funded by the H&M Foundation, provides an in-depth view of the current circularity in clothing and textiles. The Circularity Gap Report Textiles urges immediate action to diminish the textile industry’s environmental impact by embracing circular economy principles such as reuse, recycling, and slow fashion. The report, released by impact organisation Circle Economy, highlights eye-opening data: only 0.3% of the 3.25 billion tonnes of materials consumed annually by the textile sector come from

Director/PDMR Shareholdings

Capital for Colleagues plc / EPIC: CFCP / Market: Aquis / Sector: Financials 4 December 2024 CAPITAL FOR COLLEAGUES PLC (‘Capital for Colleagues’, ‘C4C’ or the ‘Company’) DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDINGS Capital for Colleagues, the investment vehicle focused on opportunities in the Employee Owned Business (‘EOB’) sector, has been notified that C4C SIP Trustee Limited (the ‘Trustee’) has allocated a total of 23,869 existing ordinary shares of 40p each in the Company (‘Ordinary Shares’) to participants in the Company’s Share Incentive Plan (‘SIP’) at a price of 57.5p

UK 2024 Criticality Assessment

Trading Symbol AIM: AYM 04 December 2024 Anglesey Mining plc (“Anglesey”) UK 2024 Criticality Assessment Following a study by the UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC), commissioned by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and hosted at the British Geological Survey (BGS), Anglesey Mining plc (AIM:AYM), is pleased to announce that Zinc (Zn) has now been added to the UK Critical Minerals List. The report can be accessed via the following link: https://www.ukcmic.org/downloads/reports/ukcmic-2024-criticality-

5G and drones breathe new life into healthcare in Skellefteå

Telia and Region Västerbotten are partnering on a new private 5G network at Skellefteå Hospital, one of northern Sweden’s largest healthcare facilities. The project will strengthen the hospital’s digital infrastructure while testing pioneering applications, such as drones that share real-time updates from accident scenes with ambulances and emergency departments. Thanks to 5G, staff in Skellefteå will be able to access information faster, including data-heavy scan and mammography images, when deciding on patient care interventions. Running the hospital can also become more efficient –

Outokumpu invests in a biocarbon plant in Germany to further reduce its direct emissions