August 2021 saw the completion of Lyckeskolan school in Kinna, the main town in Mark Municipality and about 50 km to the southeast of Gothenburg. Designed for 650 pupils in grades 7-9, the new school replaces an earlier school from the 1960s.

With the introduction of the new Alfa Laval PlusClean ® cleaning nozzle, Alfa Laval’s broad tank cleaning portfolio is set to take a giant leap forward. The PlusClean delivers unprecedented 100% tank cleaning coverage, up to 80% savings in water and cleaning media costs, and no product contamination. Paired with a top-mounted tank cleaning device and installed flush with the tank wall or bottom, the PlusClean raises productivity and lowers total cost of ownership.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Welspun Advanced Materials, India, to deliver a complete neXline spunlace line for the production of nonwoven roll goods and wipes for their new plant in Hyderabad, Telangana.

A massive scaling up of finance for research and development is essential to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a report by Ricardo and the International Chamber of Shipping.

Ruukki Construction is to invest in an automatic sandwich panel packaging line s at the Alajärvi plant. The new line will reduce the usage of plastic packaging material and also other waste generated on the line. The new packaging line will come on stream in March 2022.

Veidekke has been commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration to build the Umeå–Dåva section of the Norrbotniabanan railway. The assignment is an execution contract with a contract sum of SEK 449.5 million. The project will start in 2021 and is scheduled for completion in autumn 2023.

CARGOTEC CORPORATION, TRADE PRESS RELEASE, 29 OCT AT 10 AM EET MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new cargo access equipment order for two RoPax vessels to be built by Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) for Spirit of Tasmania (TT-Line Company Pty Ltd). 

International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully started up a new 550 t/d HERB chemical recovery boiler (upgradable to 700 t/d) at Naini Papers Limited in Kashipur, state of Uttarakhand, India.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has launched the Net-Zero Standard as the world’s only framework and leading standard for aligning corporate net-zero targets with climate science. As part of the launch, Ørsted’s 2040 net-zero full value chain decarbonisation target has now been validated as science-based.

Factory 01 will grow protein out of microbes cultured with electricity and air. CEO Pasi Vainikka likens the new wave of foodtech becoming commercial to the onset of the digital revolution.