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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.
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.