/ins Cycling in heavy headwind drains your energy fast. It’s the same with an aircraft – the more favorable the winds are, the less fuel is needed. This is where AVTECH’s new cruise optimizing tool comes in handy; it continually calculates the best cruising altitude on a single aircraft’s trajectory, using a unique and highly precise 10K weather forecast.

/ins   The winner of the 20 th international Swedish Steel Prize is Shape Corp. from the United States. The prize is awarded for the groundbreaking use of martensitic steel in a 3D formed tube for automotive roof rail applications.

/ins   For the 20th time SSAB hosts the Swedish Steel Prize event on November 12-14, 2019. The Swedish Steel Prize is an international award for companies, institutions and individuals in the steel industry. Since 1999, it has been recognizing and rewarding those that have developed a method or product that fully utilizes the potential of premium steels.

/ins Cutting narrow incisions with ultra-high precision in high density materials using waterjet technology requires a specific waterjet cutting process: the Fine Abrasive Waterjet process (FAWJ). The first FAWJ cutting head was developed by Water Jet Sweden in 2008.

/ins   For developing a unique manufacturing process and a lightweight solution for A-pillar and roof rail tubes in cars, Shape Corp. has been nominated for the Swedish Steel Prize 2019.

/ins   A new combi wall at the Port of Gdańsk, Poland, begun in February 2019, will result in a new wharf by 2020 that will be 1,220 meters (4,000 feet) long. The most important part of the wharf, the steel piles, came from SSAB.­

/ins   For developing an innovative roofing product that successfully combines a highly effective solar panel with an architecturally attractive and environmentally friendly steel roof, Roofit.solar has been nominated for the Swedish Steel Prize 2019.

/ins   Plattling-based T.CON GmbH & Co. KG has established a sales location in Austin, Texas. In founding its first international branch, the SAP consultancy has reached a key milestone towards further internationalization of its business. 

/ins   AVTECH Sweden’s proFLIGHT helps pilots pick the perfect flight path thunderstorms are not usually dangerous for airplanes, but they are often followed by turbulence that really can rock. Now all airline pilots have an option to try out an easy-to-use app, proFLIGHT by Swedish AVTECH, that very precisely shows where the actual threats are in real time along the trajectory.

/ins   For developing a new harvesting feeder solution for soybean farming that lasts longer, damages fewer crops and drastically improves the yield of existing farms, Kampag has been nominated for the Swedish Steel Prize 2019.