Japanese investment bank, Daiwa, invests in Bioendev
Daiwa Securities Group, Japan's second largest investment bank, has through its subsidiary Daiwa Energy and Infrastructure Co. Ltd. aquired a 40 percent stake in Bioendev.
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Swedish wood chipper on its way to Canada
Multi Channel Sweden's innovative wood chipper is on its way to the international market. Nicklas Boström, CEO of the company, travelled, together with several others involved in the Bizmaker Forest Accelerator programme, to Canada this autumn. They participated in the Scandinavian Startup Week, which is a recurring initiative that helps new growth companies to international markets. The goal for Multi Channel Sweden is that all existing traditional disc chippers in the industry will eventually be replaced by Multi Channel Sweden’s Flexchipper™. One part of that work is an information tour in Canada in 2018.
Gender equality simplifies recruitment
Getting the right person in the right place is not easy. Successful recruitment can depend on small details like words and images. The half day conference Women with Impact, on October 4th, gave many concrete and valuable ideas on how to find the expertise needed by the company.
Rototilt a world-leading technology company with gender equality in focus
Rototilt is situated 50 km northwest of Umeå, in Vindeln. The world's leading manufacturer of safe and efficient tiltrotatorsystems are working systematically with gender equality since 2006. In October, they will talk about their gender equality work at the half day conference Women with Impact.
Forest company predicts a revolution in silviculture with new fertilizer from Umeå
Holmen, a Swedish forest company, has successfully been using arginine as a liquid fertilizer in its nurseries for fifteen years and now the organic fertilizer Argrow, from Arevo, is available in solid form too. This enables seedlings to continue being fertilized once they have been planted in the forest. Research results have shown that forest seedlings much prefer arginine to nitrate as a source of nitrogen.
Great international interest for companies from northern Sweden
The companies C-Green, Absolicon, Oazer and Multi Channel Sweden from northern Sweden draw a lot of attention when presenting themselves to the international market. It was the second time North Sweden Cleantech organized an international exchange at Region Västerbotten office in Stockholm.
Umeå becomes Sweden’s first 5G city
The city of Umeå, Northern Sweden, will be Sweden’s first test city for 5G, putting both the city and Sweden in the forefront of the development of new infrastructures and services in Europé.
Dåva cogeneration plant in Umeå can become a test facility for negative emissions
Billions of SEK might be invested in a new technology that can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dåva CHP, the heart of Umeå's district heating supply, is one of the combined heat and power plants proposed to be first out testing the method, resulting in negative CO2 emissions from the plant.
Networking for Business Opportunities
On September 13th, northern Sweden visits Stockholm. During a couple of hours, you will learn more about northern Sweden as well as the North Sweden Cleantech platform and the cleantech companies in the region. The purpose of this event is to gather ambassadors and representatives from priority markets to create new business opportunities as well as increased international collaboration.
Umeå is in the final of 2018 European Capital of Innovation Award
The European Commission recently announced that the finalist cities of this year’s European Capital of Innovation Award are Aarhus, Antwerp, Athens, Bristol, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Leuven, Lisbon, Madrid, Toulouse, Umeå and Vienna.
Diversity and Equality Pays Off
Uminova's kitchen was packed with entrepreneurs, businesspeople and business coaches when Anna Stenberg, the founder of Women Executive Search, Wes, lectured on diversity, equality, how to recruit wider and why you should care.
Eco-Oil, a shortcut to the future
Eco-Oil is a Skellefteå based company with a unique and patented processing plant that produce sustainable synthetic biofuel based on energy crops. The company started in 2007 by researchers from Umeå University in the Bio4Energy project, aiming to produce 100% renewable and CO2-neutral gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
France Ambassador to Sweden visited the region
In a visit organized by North Sweden Cleantech and Emil Källström from the Center Party, France's Ambassador to Sweden, David Cvach, visited prominent cleantech organizations in the region Västernorrland. In Örnsköldsvik, Processum and SEKAB were visited, where the ambassador received information about the company's operations and on various future projects.
Everybody is talking about cleantech
Next summer, North Sweden Cleantech will host an international cleantech conference in Skellefteå. Cleantech is a hot topic whenever sustainable industry, growth and the future are discussed. But what is cleantech and why is everybody talking about it? And what role will northern Sweden play in its development?
North Sweden Cleantech Present at All-Energy
All-Energy is the largest exhibition in the UK for renewable energy and is held annually in Scotland. North Sweden Cleantech was present and made important connections with stakeholders working on the transition to renewable energy.
Elastisys presents the IT challenges of the future at the Umeå Tech Arena
Umeå Tech Arena is an annual recurring event for entrepreneurs, investors and anyone else who likes tech. On May 29th, it's arranged for the fourth time and this year the theme is artificial intelligence (AI).
New technology to produce biofuel
The Skellefteå based company Eco-Oil and researchers associated with the Bio4Energy at Umeå University now launch a new technology for making "green" hydrocarbons that can be used to produce biofuels.
International business conference is planned in Skellefteå
Skellefteå will have an international business conference next spring. The working name is Future Industry Meetup - Energy Edition. Susanne W Lindström presented this during her visit at the municipality of Skellefteå's morning meeting at The Great Northern.
Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven, impressed by Racoon Miljöfilter
Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden, visited Racoon Miljöfilter in Robertsfors on February 20 to listen to and talk about innovation and look at the products and manufacturing at Racoon.