Bern (ots) - BKW is selling 100% of the shares in Swiss Solar Invest AG - a company founded with a view to implementing photovoltaic plants - to UBS Clean Energy Infrastructure Switzerland, a limited partnership for collective investments. For its part, Swiss Solar Invest AG is acquiring from BKW a portfolio of photovoltaic plants with a collective installed capacity of up to 4.67 MW. At the same time, BKW will enter into ...
London (ots) - ISCC EU and DE certified, Ennovor is currently undergoing an audit to become qualified to trade RSB certified biodiesel. The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials is a European Commission approved system for the certification of biomaterials including biofuels. A multi-stakeholder scheme, RSB brings together farmers, companies, non-governmental ...
London (ots) - Ennovor Group, a global sustainable biofuels company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a rolling tolling contract with one of Spain's largest biodiesel refiners. An innovator of feedstock procurement, supply chain development and sustainability assurance, Ennovor plans similar tolling agreements with a number of specialist biodiesel refineries ...
Bern/Barcelona (ots) - The DECT Forum, the international association of the wireless home and enterprise communication industry, is pleased to announce that the first CAT-iq 2.0 certified handsets from full members Sagemcom (D49HD) and Swissvoice (IH250) carry the HD Voice logo of the GSMA. "The DECT Forum has recently entered into a cooperation agreement with the GSMA, where CAT-iq 2.0 certified devices will be able to ...
Geneva (ots) - - - Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) has announced a 10% year-on -year rise in its assets under management to CHF 87.7 billion (USD 98.6 billion) as at 31 December 2013 (CHF 80 billion at the end of 2012). - The Group's operating profit came to CHF 218.3 million (USD 245.5 million), up more than 20% on the previous year, attesting to the business' ...
Davos, Geneva (ots) - WISeKey, the Swiss cyber security expert and World Economic Forum Global Growth Company Partner, will be spearheading multiple thought leadership events within the cyber security and digital neutrality space at this year's World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, taking place in Davos, Switzerland ...
Bern (ots) - The DECT Forum, the international association of the wireless home and enterprise communication industry, is pleased to announce that Oliver Maiwald has been appointed CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of the DECT Forum. Oliver Maiwald succeeds Dag Akerberg who has retired after more than a decade holding the CTO position of the DECT Forum. Oliver Maiwald has previously been a Board member of the DECT Forum since January 2008, representing Dialog Semiconductor. His ...
Zürich (ots) - allgorite offers best opportunities to achieve extraordinary profits on the US stock market. The new and innovative investment algorithm finally gives private investors and traders access to a tool previously only used by professionals. The Swiss company Stock-iQ has invested eight years of development work in the complex mathematical procedural rules ...
Lugano, Switzerland (ots) - The two companies sign a distribution and license agreement for an investigational therapy for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting covering China, Hong Kong and Macao Helsinn and Mundipharma announce the signature of a new, exclusive license and distribution ...
Bern (ots) - Beat Grossenbacher, CFO and member of the Group Executive Board of BKW Inc., has decided to move to SRG SSR. As Head of Finance and Controlling, Beat Grossenbacher will also be a member of the SRG Executive Board. As agreed with SRG, he will move to his new position with SRG by 1 July 2014. Beat Grossenbacher (53) joined the Executive Board of BKW on 1 January 2009, and from then on headed the company's ...
Bern (ots) - BKW and its Italian partner Hera S. p. A. are to take over the shares held by Zecca S.r.l. in Tamarete Energia S.r.l. power plant company in Ortona. The company operates the gas-fired power plant in Tamarete. With a capacity of 104 MW, the plant is designed to deliver supplies at peak-load times. At the end of 2008, BKW acquired a 48% stake in the Tamarete ...
European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)
Lugano (ots) - Medical oncologists have a vital role to play in cancer care, particularly as treatments become ever more complex, a new position statement from the European Society for Medical Oncology says (http://www.presseportal.ch/go2/new_position_statement ). Medical oncologists are specialist cancer physicians ...
Eysins, Switzerland (ots) - Following the set-up of a Shanghai-based Chinese subsidiary and its recent expansion in India, Biosafe is demonstrating its firm commitment to emerging markets with the creation of a new subsidiary and the opening today of a new office covering the Latin American area. The new company, Biosafe do Brasil Participaçôes e Representações Ltda., based in the Vila Olímpia quarter of São Paulo ...
Lugano, Switzerland/Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA (ots) - Seeking indication for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting Helsinn Group and Eisai Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for review the submission of the New Drug Application (NDA) for the investigational ...
Lugano, Switzerland - Beijing, PRC (ots) - Helsinn Group, the independent, privately-owned, Swiss pharmaceutical company, with a worldwide presence built over 35 years, lands in China. Helsinn's Representative Office was officially inaugurated in Beijing, PRC yesterday. With headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland, and operating subsidiaries in Ireland and the United ...
Yverdon, Switzerland (ots) - BPA Solutions SA (BPA), headquartered at Swiss Technopole Yverdon, Switzerland, today announced it has raised development funds from Debiopharm Investment. BPA is a global leading provider of innovative business software solutions based on Microsoft (MS) SharePoint technologies with 800+ customers and 50+ partners worldwide. Profitable ...
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG
Zürich-Airport (ots) - The civil aviation authority of the Russian Federation has certified Swiss AviationTraining (SAT) to provide maintenance training for the Embraer 170 and 190 aircraft types. SAT's practically-oriented basic and further E-Jet training for technical personnel was formally approved by the Russian aviation authority for Levels B1, B2, B3 and C on ...
Geneva, Switzrland (ots) - The Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) has attributed its Outstanding Paper Award to "Momentum Crashes", a research paper by Kent Daniel of Columbia University and Tobias Moskowitz of the University of Chicago showing how losses to momentum strategies can be avoided. At the Swiss Finance Institute's annual meeting held in Geneva on November 14, 2013, the SFI college of chairs has nominated Professor Kent Daniel of Columbia Business School, Columbia ...
Pfäffikon, Switzerland (ots) - Every entrepreneur is familiar with the following scenario: the services or goods have been delivered - but the business partner abroad fails to settle the account. Whereas in Germany a suitable reaction would be to send a brief, business-like reminder, in Austria business partners ...
Olten, Switzerland (ots) - Reha Technology AG will be installing the first G-EO System unit in India with Dr. Zameer Jafri at the Max Balaji Super Specialty Healthcare in New Delhi and is launching direct operations in India. Launch of Indian direct operations in New Delhi Reha Technology AG, a Swiss company that designs, manufactures and globally distributes advanced ...
Lugano, Switzerland (ots) - Swiss Pharma Group Helsinn seals an alliance with Japanese company Chugai by granting exclusive distribution & licensing rights to commercialize its innovative phase III ghrelin receptor agonist in Germany, France, Benelux, UK and Ireland Swiss-based Helsinn group has granted Chugai ...
Zurich / London (ots) - Brand Affairs, the London and Zurich based communications and brand management specialists, have strengthened their senior team with the addition of Markus Kramer as partner. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131107/649602-a ) (Foto:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131107/649602-b ...
Lausanne and Singapore (ots) - Debiotech SA, Switzerland, and AWAK Technologies Pte Ltd., Singapore, announced today that they have entered into a partnership agreement regarding the development and manufacturing of a novel miniaturized Home Hemodialysis machine intended to serve the growing need for homecare ...
Bern (ots) - Over the past few months BKW Inc. has been examining various scenarios concerning the future of Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM) and its continued operation. It has now decided to continue operating the KKM until 2019, in compliance with all safety requirements, following which the plant will be taken off the grid. This decision was made with due consideration to all the known technical, economic, ...
Eysins, Switzerland (ots) - Biosafe is pleased to report the launch of its new Smart-Max device at the ESH World Cord Blood Congress in Monaco last week. The Smart-Max device has multiple areas of application in cell processing, including cell mixing, cooling, thawing, dilution, incubation and digestion. It is fully automated with an easy-to-use touchscreen interface and can handle bags of various sizes. Used in ...
Castel San Pietro (ots) - Ticino-based PAMP SA, a leading global refiner of gold and other precious metals and part of MKS Group, has signed up to the Public- Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) alongside Apple, Panasonic, Boeing and ...