HELSINKI, 23-Oct-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — NIB and Norway’s Sparebank 1 SR-Bank ASA have signed a six-year loan programme totaling EUR 120 million to finance investments and environmental projects for the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small mid-caps. The projects to be funded … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Finland, Investment, Norway, Small Business
Tagged financing facility, NIB, SMEs in Norway, Sparebank 1 SR-Bank
ESPOO, 03-Oct-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Fortum has made a final investment decision on the Sørfjord windfarm in Northern Norway. Sørfjord is part of the wind portfolio that Fortum acquired from Nordkraft earlier this year. The Sørfjord wind park will have 23 … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Norway
Tagged Fortum, Philippe Stohr, Sørfjord windfarm, windfarm
OSLO, 02-Oct-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Yara International ASA third quarter 2017 results will be released on Thursday 19 October 2017. The results will be available at www.yara.com from 08:00 CEST.The results will be presented at 09:30 CEST by President and CEO Svein Tore Holsether and CFO … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Management, Norway
Tagged Svein Tore Holsether, Torgeir Kvidal, Yara International ASA
Ramboll solutions to help increase mobility in cities are high on the agenda at the leading smart cities conference Nordic Edge being held this week. COPENHAGEN, 29-Sep-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Increasing urbanisation is putting a strain on cities like never … Read the full press release
OSLO, 01-Sep-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population, a number which is projected to rise. While about 2.5 per cent of the world’s water is freshwater, only 0.5 per cent of that … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, Management, Norway
Tagged Antonio Astone, DNV GL, textile industry, UNIDO, water consumption
Telenor Group today (21 August 2017) announced that Cecilie B. Heuch has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, effective 1st December 2017. Heuch succeeds Jon Erik Haug who will stay in his current role until Heuch joins … Read the full press release
Posted in Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Cecilie B. Heuch, Jon Erik Haug, Telenor Group
STOCKHOLM, 22-Aug-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — MTG has secured the exclusive Nordic media rights to the DKB Handball-Bundesliga for the next six seasons – bringing world class handball action to fans in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden on TV, online and mobile. … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Finland, Marketing, Media, Norway, Sports, Sweden
Tagged DKB Handball-Bundesliga, Frank Bohmann, MTG, Peter Nørrelund, show live matches
The seafood industry must comply with increasingly strict demands of consumers on sustainable seafood production. For that reason, a group of Norwegian graduates have spent their summer developing smart “robot containers” with cooling systems that can sail to ports without … Read the full press release
Opportunities for digitalization are currently being embraced by the oil and gas sector. However, there are few practical use cases of it yet. Lundin Norway and DNV GL have developed the first step in a solution for predicting unplanned shutdowns … Read the full press release
COPENHAGEN, 15-Aug-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — ISS has signed a letter of intent for delivering integrated facility services in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to Telenor’s more than 5,000 facilities. The contract duration is 5 years with option of extending up to … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Management, Norway, Sweden
Tagged integrated facility services, ISS, Pål Kvalheim, Telenor, Troels Bjerg
DNV GL surveyors have carried out the classification society’s first offshore drone survey on the semisubmersible vessel Safe Scandinavia in the North Sea. This 25,383 GT tender support vessel (TSV) is owned and operated by Prosafe, supporting Statoil’s drilling operations … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Industrial, Norway, Technology
Tagged Cezary Galinski, Classification society, DNV GL, Ian Young, offshore drone survey, Prosafe, Safe Scandinavia
Orkla and Norsk Hydro (“Hydro”) have entered into an agreement whereby Hydro is to purchase Orkla’s 50% interest in Sapa. The sale is in line with Orkla’s strategy of being a leading branded consumer goods company. OSLO, 11-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ … Read the full press release
Posted in Industrial, Investment, Metals and Minerals, Norway
Tagged Hydro, Orkla, Peter A. Ruzicka, Sapa
Marseille, France /Kongsberg, Norway, 11-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Leading marine Offshore services company, BOURBON has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Automated Ships Ltd to support the building of the world’s first autonomous, fully-automated and cost-efficient prototype vessel for … Read the full press release
HELSINKI, 07-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — NIB and the Norwegian toll-road operator Vegfinans E18 Telemark AS have signed a 20-year maturity loan totalling NOK 1 billion (EUR 105 million) for the construction of a new section of the E18 motorway in Telemark County. The loan will … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Construction, Finland, Norway, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged E18 motorway in Telemark County, Henrik Normann, NIB, Norway, Vegfinans E18 Telemark AS
Ulrike Haugen has taken up the position of Chief Communications Officer at the DNV GL Group. Due to her extensive experience, background and knowledge of the industries in which DNV GL is involved, Haugen adds valuable competence to the company’s … Read the full press release
Posted in Management, Norway, Technology
Tagged DNV GL Group, Ulrike Haugen
Rolls-Royce, The Norwegian University of Technology Science (NTNU), research organisation SINTEF Ocean, and classification society DNV GL have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the aim of creating an open source digital platform for use in the development of … Read the full press release
OSLO, 05-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — European Smart Meter software company greenbird Integration Technology AS appoints Bill Joss as Chairman of the Board to support international expansion. Greenbird is a profitable and rapidly growing software vendor and technology-leader in IT integration in … Read the full press release
Telemar and Marlink to bundle VSAT, L-Band and XChange Universal Remote Access to improve on board IT network support OSLO/PARIS/ROME, 04-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Italian ship owner and long-term Telemar customer d’Amico Group has selected Marlink’s Sealink Premium Plus VSAT … Read the full press release
OSLO, 13-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — DNV GL – Business Assurance has joined the Social & Labor Convergence Project (SLCP), and will be one of the signatories contributing to the development of an industry-wide, standard-agnostic assessment framework in the apparel and footwear … Read the full press release
Posted in Apparel, Fashion & Beauty, Norway
Tagged apparel and footwear, DNV GL, Janet Mensink
STAVANGER, 13-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Statoil expects substantial changes in the global energy mix. In moving towards a low-carbon energy system, new renewables may increase from just over one percent of total primary energy demand in 2014 to almost twenty percent … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Management, Norway
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