All twelve trams handed over to SWU Verkehr GmbH First series service for multi-articulated Avenio M First Avenio fleet with “Siemens Tram Assistant” collision warning system MUNICH, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Avenio M from Siemens Mobility has begun service … Read the full press release
GRAZ, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Metris addIQ provides added value by enhancing availability and minimizing production costs through increased equipment efficiency and fewer operating errors. Metris addIQ control systems, part of the ANDRITZ digital solutions offered under the Metris technology … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Industrial, Management, Technology
Tagged Andritz, control system, digital, Metris addIQ, operating, processing, separation applications
Forecasting Eye LONDON, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The announcement from the margins of the G20 that Russia and the Saudis were cooperating on oil pricing certainly gave a fillip to the oil markets. The Brent crude future rose from $58.76 per barrel … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Management, United Kingdom
Tagged Brent crude, Cebr, Dubai Fateh, G20, LNG, oil, oil market, oil price, OPEC, Qatar, RUSSIA, Saudis
MILAN, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Lane of Salini Impregilo Group has won two highway contracts in North Carolina worth a combined $460 million as the Group continues to affirm its expertise and expand its presence in the United States, its single … Read the full press release
Posted in Construction, Infrastructure & Utilities, Italy
Tagged construction, expressway, highway, infrastructure, metros, North Carolina, railway, Salini Impregilo Group, tunnels
BUCHAREST, Romania, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — In accordance with the ASF Regulation no. 5/2018 and art. 2 of the Commission Delegated Report (EU) 1052/2016, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market (Bucharest Stock Exchange “BVB”, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Media, News, Romania, Technology, Telecom
Tagged AFM, ASF, Bucharest Stock Exchange, buy back shares, buy-back program, BVB, Digi, Digi Communications, DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V., Digi Communications NV, DIGI symbol, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, Hungary, investors, IPO, market, mobile services, MVNO, RCS & RDS, RCS&RDS, Regulation, Romania, Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority, Romanian National Securities Commission, romanian telecommunications provider, Securities, Serghei Bulgac, shareholders, shares, shares buy-back, Spain, Telecom Market, TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDER, telecommunications, telecommunications services, transactions, tv
St. Petersburg hosted today the 39th Presiding Committee Meeting of the International Business Congress (IBC) moderated by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and President of the IBC. MOSCOW, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The event participants took stock of the IBC performance in 2018 and defined … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Russia
Tagged Alexey Miller, Ecology, Gazprom, Healthcare, IBC, International Business Congress, Linde, scholarship, St Petersburg, staff training, Uniper, Wintershall
Egyptian Government approval for the sale of a 20% interest to Mubadala Petroleum and a 25% interest to BP out of Eni’s share in the Nour North Sinai Offshore exploratory concession has been granted. The approval follows the signing of … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Italy
Tagged BP, concession, EGYPT, Eni, Mubadala Petroleum, Nour North Sinai, oil
Bus and rail group rated sector leader for innovation and people development Management Today reputation survey of 250 companies across 25 sectors PERTH, Scotland, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Stagecoach Group has been rated one of Britain’s top three most admired transport … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Management, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged BMAC, BMAC2018, Britain, Management, reputation, Stagecoach Group, Steven Stewart, survey, TRANSPORT
UTRECHT, 10-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — V&S Foodspecialist (V&S), a Dutch manufacturer of hand-made satay, ethnic and vegetarian snacks has attracted a new shareholder: Rabo Participaties. The Leiden based company is a renowned producer for various European customers, especially in the … Read the full press release
The fashion, textile and furniture industries are looking for new materials with a smaller environmental footprint The Swedish paper and textile industries are working together to produce textiles from local raw material The fabric for ceremony master Andrea Montano Montes’ dress … Read the full press release
Posted in Apparel, Fashion & Beauty, Environment, Finland, Industrial, Sweden
Tagged Ahlstrom-Munksjö, Andrea Montano Montes, Anna Bergquist, Circularity, dress, fabric, fashion, fiber, materials, Nobel, paper, recyclable textile, Svenskt Konstsilke, textile, wood fiber
LONDON, 07-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The 4th Farming by Satellite Prize, promoting the use of satellite technologies in agriculture, was decided on Wednesday 5th December at EU Space Week in Marseille. The overall winner of €5,000 was team Teagasc from Dublin, … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Awards, Education, Environment, France, Ireland, Italy, Science, Small Business, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged agricultural engineering, Alexandru Burlacu, Andrea King, artificial-intelligence, augmented reality, Big Data, claas, crop evaluation systems, crop type detection, Dr Andrew Speedy, Drones, Earth observation, egnos, European Environment Agency, farming 4.0, Farming by Satellite, forecasting system for rice production, GALILEO, geo-referenced online data platforms, GNSS, Hans Dufourmont, International Green Week, ISA Lille in France, Marcel Foelsch, Marie Rolloy, Precision Agriculture, precision farming, precision seed planting robots, Reinhard Blasi, satellite applications, satellite navigation, SIMA agricultural show, Space Solutions conference, swarm technologies, University of Padova
AMSTERDAM, 07-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) announces a joint pilot with a leading airline to bring additional convenience and security to the traveler’s experience via biometric boarding in Terminal 4 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The test … Read the full press release
A total of up to EUR 35,000 in prize money “New construction” and “modernising existing buildings” categories Apply by 20 February 2019 FRANKFURT, 07-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The application phase for the KfW Construction Award 2019 is starting now. Until … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Banks, Construction, Germany, Real Estate
Tagged Architecture, Award, building, construction, Dr Ingrid Hengster, energy efficiency, KfW, Professor Hans Kollhoff, property, real estate
Swisscom, the largest telecommunications service provider in Switzerland, selects Ericsson Expert Analytics solution to enhance experience for subscribers Solution to provide data analysis and actionable insights for Swisscom’s 5.3 million mobile broadband subscribers using video and other OTT applications STOCKHOLM, … Read the full press release
Posted in Internet & Online, Sweden, Switzerland, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 4G, 5G, Arun Bansal, Big Data, broadband, Cloud, Daniel Staub, Ericsson, Ericsson Expert Analytics, IoT, Mobile, OTT, Swisscom
STOCKHOLM, 07-12-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — With 5G bringing in new possibilities for operators across the globe, a higher capacity microwave backhaul becomes even more important to ensure high-quality mobile broadband. This year’s Ericsson Microwave Outlook report discusses how this demand can be met with … Read the full press release
EBRD signs a €5 million (TND 17 million) loan with Enda Tamweel for its disbursement to Tunisian MSMEs Local currency financing will support lending to local MSMEs Only 15 per cent of MSMEs in the country have bank loans LONDON, 07-12-2018 … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Investment, Small Business
Tagged EBRD, Enda Tamweel, loans, microfinance, MSMEs, Tunisia
Development finance institutions share their experience at COP24 LONDON, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Climate change impacts are high on the international agenda. From severe wildfires in California and Greece to devastating floods in Kerala, these impacts have dominated headlines this year. Both … Read the full press release
€15 million loan to the city of Craiova The city to buy environmentally friendly buses and improve energy efficiency of public buildings EBRD to help Craiova develop an action plan to boost green infrastructure LONDON, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Some 300,000 … Read the full press release
In light of the upcoming European Council and Euro Summit in December, the Commission presents actions to strengthen the role of the euro in a changing world. BRUSSELS, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — In his State of the Union Address in September 2018, … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Business, European Union, Financial, Politics
Tagged currency, EUR, Euro, euroarea, European Commission, EuroSummit, Eurozone, Jean-Claude Juncker, Miguel Arias Cañete, Pierre Moscovici, Valdis Dombrovskis
BRUSSELS, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — To protect its democratic systems and public debates and in view of the 2019 European elections as well as a number of national and local elections that will be held in Member States by 2020, the … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, European Union, Government, Internet & Online, Media, Politics, Society
Tagged Andrus Ansip, debates, democracy, democratic systems, disinformation, division, elections, EU, Europe, Federica Mogherini, hatred, Julian King, Mariya Gabriel, mistrust, Vĕra Jourová
Service to begin when timetable changes on December 9, 2018 Federal Railway Authority approves operation of trains Approval granted punctually Increased capacity and passenger comfort MUNICH, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The electric multiple unit (EMU) trains built by Siemens Mobility for … Read the full press release
Nemo Link is the first transmission link between the two countries It enables transmission of 1,000 MW electricity using Siemens HVDC Plus technology Siemens built converter stations housing the state of the art HVDC equipment in both Herdersbrug (Belgium) and … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Chris Peeters, electricity, grid, Herdersbrug, high voltage direct current, HVDC, interconnector, John Pettigrew, Mirko Düsel, Nemo Link, power grid, Ralf Christian, Richborough, Siemens
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, Phoenix (AZ) and Kansas City (MO), USA, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.S), the world leader in digital security, and Pepper IoT, the Internet of Things platform and service provider, announced today a long-term collaboration to … Read the full press release
EINDHOVEN, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Sponsh, an Eindhoven University of Technology spin-off that develops a temperature-sensitive textile which produces water from the air, has been voted the best chemical start-up of 2018. It is the third consecutive year that a TU/e … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Chemicals, Education, Netherlands, Science, Small Business, Technology
Tagged Catarina Esteves, CHAINS 2018, chemical, chemical start-up, Dr. Cristianne Rijcken, Dr. Koen Nickmans, Dr. Peter Berben, Emiel Hensen, Leon Joore, Lourens Bout, Lusoco, Michael Boot, Michael Debije, Panos Kouris, Prof. Floris Rutjes, spinoff, Sponsh, startup, textile, Vertoro, WATER
New contract will help Siemens accelerate its digital transformation and develop new data analytics and business intelligence solutions NEW YORK, NY, USA, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Siemens AG has awarded Accenture (NYSE: ACN) a five-year technology and services contract to … Read the full press release
HELSINKI, 06-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — PT. Indonesia Power has awarded Pöyry with a three-year Framework Agreement contract for a number of different types of renewable power projects across Indonesia. The assignment includes wind power, solar PV, battery storage and different renewable … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Industrial, Technology
Tagged battery storage, geothermal plants, Hybrid, hydro power, Indonesia, Kishore Dass, power, power generation, Pöyry, PT Indonesia Power, PV, renewable, Solar PV, wind power
HELSINKI, 05-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The International Finance Magazine (IFM) has presented Pöyry with the award for Best Engineering and Consultancy Company in Southeast Asia under its Utility/Energy Awards for 2018. The IFM Awards is an annual event that recognises individuals … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Finland, Technology
Tagged Award, Awards, Consultancy, ENERGY, engineering, IFM, International Finance Magazine, Pöyry, Southeast Asia, utility
HELSINKI, 05-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Stora Enso and Sulapac continue to combat the global problem of plastic waste by launching a demo for sustainable drinking straws at Slush 2018, a leading startup event that gathers 20 000 tech enthusiasts from around … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, Finland, Marketing, Small Business, Technology
Tagged Annica Bresky, biodegradable, biodegradable straws, drinking straws, Hannu Kasurinen, plastic, plastic waste, Slush 2018, slush18, startup, Stora Enso, straws, Sulapac, sustainable, Suvi Haimi, waste
PARIS, 05-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today holds its 5th Atos Quantum Scientific Council meeting in Bezons. The members of the Scientific Council made of universally recognized quantum physicists and mathematicians reviewed the two research and … Read the full press release
Posted in European Union, France, Internet & Online, Science, Technology
Tagged Atos, Bezons, EU, h2020, mathematicians, quantum, Quantum Flagship, quantum physicists, quantum technologies, Thierry Breton
DORNBIRN, Austria, 05-Dec-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Supervisory Board of the Zumtobel Group announces that the contract of CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Alfred Felder, which expires on 30 April 2019, has been extended by three years until 30 April 2022. … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Electronics & Machinery, Management, Technology
Tagged Alfred Felder, appointment, CEO, Jürg Zumtobel, leadership, Management, Zumtobel Group