Swedish Research http://swegene.com Research in Sweden Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:00:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment http://swegene.com/alice-a-large-ion-collider-experiment.html http://swegene.com/alice-a-large-ion-collider-experiment.html#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:52:27 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=128

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a dedicated heavy ion experiment at the LHC. The goal of the experiment is to study strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities (QCD thermodynamics). Statistical QCD predicts that, at sufficiently high densities, there will be a transition from hadronic matter to a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons - a transition which in the early universe took place about 100 micro-seconds after the Big Bang. The study of nuclear collisions at high energies utilizes methods and concepts from both nuclear and high energy physics constituting a new and interdisciplinary approach in investigating matter and its interactions.
The ALICE collaboration proposes to build a dedicated, general-purpose detector that will utilize the full potential of the LHC programme including both nucleus-nucleus and proton-proton collisions. Its design is based on the experiencies gained with the existing programs at CERN and BNL and it will address a majority of known sensitive observables like hadrons, di-leptons and photons. The ALICE detector will be the only heavy ion experiment at LHC and its design therefore has to be conservative and robust to be able to observe most of the signals that look promosing today for the QGP formation.
The figure above shows the ALICE experiment. The detector is contained in a big magnet of about 6 meters radius. The detector must have the capability of detecting the produced particles with very high precision. This requires different systems of specially designed detectors based on very advanced technologies.

TPC Overview

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main tracking detector in the central barrel of theALICE experiment at LHC. Its function is to provide track finding (efficiency larger than 90%), charged particle momentum measurement (resolution better than 2.5% for electrons with momentum of about 4 GeV/c), particle identification (dE/dx resolution better than 10%), and two-track separation (resolution in relative momentum below 5 MeV/c) in the region pt<10 GeV/c and pseudo-rapidity |h|<0.9.
The TPC is cylindrical in shape with an active gas volume that ranges from about 85 cm to 250 cm, in the radial direction, and has a length of 500 cm. along the beam direction. A high voltage (HV) electrode is located at its axial center, which will be aligned to the interaction point, dividing the gas volume in two symmetric drift regions of 250 cm length. The HV electrode, which consists of an aluminized stretched Mylar foil, and two opposite axial potential degraders create a highly uniform electrostatic field in the two drift regions. The potential of the drift region is defined by Mylar strips wound around 18 inner and outer support rods.

Charged particles traversing the gas will leave behind the memory of their passage in the form of a long trace of ionized gas. Depending on the electrical charge and momentum of the particle the trace will be bent weaker or stronger in either direction. In addition the density of the ionization depends on the momentum and identity of the particle. The ionization trace moves at constant velocity to either of the two end plates. The end plates are equipped with wire planes and 560,000 electronics channels, detecting the fundamental properties of the ionization trace (3D image and ionization density). The requirements of good momentum resolution and high rate capability call for a drift gas with low diffusion, low Z and large ion mobility. Extensive investigation of different gas mixtures led originally to the choice of the mixture 90% Ne-10% CO2. More recently it was proposed to add 5% N 2 to the mixture, which turned out to provide, higher gas gain stability and a better control of the fraction of N2 and its influence on the drift velocity. Both gas mixtures, however, require a high drift field (400 V/cm) to secure an acceptable drift time (88ms and 92ms respectively). The field cage is surrounded by double-shelled containment vessels with CO2 as insulator. Composite materials based on carbon fibber were chosen for high mechanical stability and low material budget (only 3.5% of a radiation length for tracks with normal incidence).
The TPC end-plates are each segmented into 18 trapezoidal sectors and equipped with multi-wire proportional chambers with cathode pad readout covering an overall active area of 32.5 m2. The sectors are segmented radially in two chambers with varying pad sizes, optimized for the radial dependence of the track density. There are about 560 000 pads with 3 different sizes: 4 for the inner readout chambers (IROC), 6 x 10 and 6 x 15 mm2 for the outer chambers (OROC), with 159 pad rows radially. For a position resolution not limited by the signal-to-noise ratio, the gas gain has to be sufficiently large. For the chosen pad sizes and rather low dE/dx of the drift gas, a rather large gas gain of 2 104 is necessary at the design noise figure of 1000 e (rms) for the electronics.

The charge collected on the TPC pads is amplified and integrated by a low input impedance charge sensitive amplifier followed by a semi-Gaussian pulse shaper. These analogue functions are realised by a custom integrated circuit (PASA), implemented in a 0.35 mm CMOS technology, which incorporate 16 channels. The circuit has a conversion gain of 12mV/fC, an impulse response function with a peaking time of 150ns and an equivalent noise charge of about 600 e- . Immediately after the PASA, a 10-bit pipelined ADC (one per channel) samples the signal at a rate in the range 5 to 12 MHz. The digitised signal is then processed by a set of circuits that perform the baseline subtraction, tail cancellation, zero-suppression, formatting and multi-event acquisition. The ADC and the digital circuits for 16 channels are contained in a single custom chip, named ALTRO, implemented in a 0.25 m m CMOS technology. The complete readout chain, which has a power consumption of about 40 mW / channel, is contained in Front End Cards (FEC), with 128 channels each, connected to the detector via kapton cables. A readout partition consists of a number of FECs (up to 25), which are controlled by a Readout Control Unit (RCU). The RCU interfaces a readout partition to the Data Acquisition (DAQ), the Trigger, and the Detector Control System (DCS). Every TPC sector (15488 channels) is readout by 6 partitions (121 FECs).
The ALICE Experiment is going in search of answers to fundamental questions, using the extraordinary tools provided by the LHC:

  • What happens to matter when it is heated to 100,000 times the temperature at the centre of the Sun ?
  • Why do protons and neutrons weigh 100 times more than the quarks they are made of ?
  • Can the quarks inside the protons and neutrons be freed ?

This website aims both at introducing non-initiates to the field of physics covered by ALICE and at providing regular information on the evolution of the experiment, with detailed reports of its results and analysis. It also offers an insight into the scientific community gathered around this project and highlights its contributions to the advancement of our understanding of the universe. So, no matter what your involvement with physics, you are invited to tumble down the rabbit hole into the wonderland of ALICE.

]]> http://swegene.com/alice-a-large-ion-collider-experiment.html/feed The Swedish affiliate of the International Association http://swegene.com/the-swedish-affiliate-of-the-international-association-2.html http://swegene.com/the-swedish-affiliate-of-the-international-association-2.html#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:39:40 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=73 The Swedish affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics is your gateway to the multitude of energy resources and related industries in Sweden, Europe, and the world. SAEE strives to increase the understanding of how energy and economics relate to each other, and to provide a forum for the free exchange of these concepts. We hold meetings and conferences each year, which cover energy topics and issues here at home, and discuss how these issues relate to the broader issues of the global energy scene. As a member of IAEE, you will be able to take part in the international energy scene by making personal and professional contacts with others around the world. You will also be afforded the opportunity to take part in events such as the International Energy Conference hosted by IAEE, along with conferences held by our national affiliate. If you are ready to join IAEE, you may sign up online by using our application form If you would like to learn more about the benefits of IAEE membership, take some time to review the membership section of our site. If you have any unanswered questions, you may contact IAEE Headquarters at iaee@iaee.org for further information.

]]> http://swegene.com/the-swedish-affiliate-of-the-international-association-2.html/feed National Supercomputing Center in Sweden uses SGI Altix new complex tasks http://swegene.com/national-supercomputing-center-in-sweden-uses-sgi-altix-new-complex-tasks.html http://swegene.com/national-supercomputing-center-in-sweden-uses-sgi-altix-new-complex-tasks.html#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:52:01 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=122 Swedish researchers have now the nation’s largest high-performance computer with shared memory architecture. It is a Linux-based supercomputer system SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, equipped with 64 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 512 GB of memory. At the University of Linkoping (LiU) in the National Supercomputing Center (NSC) set up computer platform from SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc., OTC: SGID), many physicists and other scientists from all over Sweden allow existing boundaries of computer-aided research to overcome and in areas such as materials science new highly complex issues to pursue.Already the first project, the NSC on the new high-performance computers will be realized, it could in the field of materials research revolutionary contribution. With the help of the SGI platform Swedish researchers to seek innovative methods to represent “organic electronics”, in which the potential of a cheap, easy alternative to existing manufactured silicon-based technology provides. The attention is the more accurate understanding of crystalline structures and the targeted exploring the possibilities of reliable electrical charge transfer in organic materials such outlet. In the course of the project are provided by the LiU researchers simulated Fehlordnungszustande and possible negative influences on the conductivity of the material analyzed. The computer simulation of such processes, they acquire new insights that will soon on the use of low cost processors in a variety of future applications could lead - of innovative electronic printed circuits to next-generation displays.
Shared memory processing - for controlled disorder
The physical simulation requires a coherent addressable main memory of at least 150 GB. Only then can the researchers correlated zufallsgenerierter many states with which they controlled the disorder in organic materials to describe try to calculate quickly enough. 150 GB shared memory, one of all processors uniformly usable main memory of this size, has none of the existing supercomputers and cluster systems at the NSC.
Although the Swedish researchers extrapolated a nationwide NSC cluster resource of a total of 1500 processors are available. And it has the largest NSC cluster would be a total memory of 400 GB. But the distributed memory architecture of the usual Linux clusters, the main memory accessible only distributed organized, it makes for such applications impossible to simulate the entire complex problem unzerstuckelt in memory to hold and efficiently as a whole.
Shared memory architecture - Study shows growing demand
Even in recent years, Swedish researchers to a previously installed SGI server system with 128 GB of shared memory use. The increasing needs of users and the fast-growing volumes of simulation models forced the NSC administrators, however, according to a new, more powerful computers look to keep the shared memory computing in a 64-bit Linux environment .. NPC Director Sven Stafstrom, professor of physics at the Computer Linkoping University: “Our primary need was a great shared memory platform. Stafstrom had in 2005 in a study about 50 user groups according to their needs and expectations of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) and specifically questioned the need for shared memory resources .. “The study showed that throughout the NSC network growing demand for such a super-computer type, because our cluster systems sufficient shared memory Missed opportunities. Around 20% of the surveyed researchers wanted access to a resource with a 200 GB contiguous usable main memory. Now we can offer them. ”
Optimal cost peak power for VASP, Gaussian and more
Four computer systems used in the selection came closer, has been approved by the NSC administrators over three weeks in intensive benchmark tests sent. Scientists examined the performance of the systems under its essential applications VASP and Gaussian and evaluated how well each of the scalable platforms in terms of online real application performance. The NSC decided on Altix as a super computer with the most balanced price-performance ratio. With the SGI system at the NSC under the operating environment ‘SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9′ with ‘SGI Pro Pack ™ 4′ will work, researchers can quantenchemische problems in the application Gaussian up to 4x faster than solve before. “Not only the factor of price / performance was in the best Altix,” said Stafstrom. “SGIs technical staff has us very carefully done and help us competently helped the application potential of the software Gaussian better understand and make learning. This experience and the long-standing business relationship with SGI have convinced us that SGI us in the establishment and operation of the new system as a strong partner. ” In addition to VASP and Gaussian, the NSC researchers also DALTON quantum chemistry software on the new Altix system. In addition, Swedish scientists their own, often self-developed or further developed applications on the SGI machine can load as they did with the NSC clusters and servers are accustomed to.
Prospects for existing and new users
“Shared-memory systems can not only administer simple but often easier to use than cluster systems,” says Stafstrom. “We expect that some new users will be added when they see how easy it is to their software to Altix system and to put them there to work faster. We hope, Swedish scientists with the new supercomputer new perspectives for innovative solutions to tap. For new tasks, which they previously due to a lack of resources simply not tackle. ”
The purchase of the Altix machine was funding by the Swedish Research Council.
Flexibility - for today and tomorrow
Altix features for complex gleitkomma-intensive scientific applications such as Gaussian, because the platform for such tasks leading application throughput and leading scalability. This applies SGIs award-winning shared memory architecture NUMAflex (TM) (a cache-coharente NUMA system architecture already in 3rd generation) in combination with the leading floating-point performance of Intel Itanium 2 processors. The shared memory SGI NUMAflex architecture allows scientists, even the largest simulation models completely in the main memory to hold and edit, so they can data analysis faster and with greater interactivity, and ultimately to reach deeper-reaching knowledge and sustainable conclusions. In particular Altix systems offer a unique opportunity to all major types of system resources such as memory, general-purpose processors, accelerating special algorithm processors, I / O bandwidth, etc. independently scale - so that the system fit the current requirements for each configure and growing challenge hochrusten.
About Silicon Graphics GmbH:
SGI - Innovation for Results ™
SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) offers a complete portfolio of high-performance server and storage solutions and industry-leading professional services and support services that help customers meet the challenges of complex, data-intensive workflows, faster innovation and discoveries as well as the Transformation of their information. Be it customers, the new active in the life sciences research, safer and more efficient vehicles and aircraft to develop the weather forecast and the global climate explore new technologies in mission-homeland security and defense, the switch from analogue to the broadcaster-band basierten on IT-based digital infrastructure, or customers, the company comprehensive records management. We are headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

]]> http://swegene.com/national-supercomputing-center-in-sweden-uses-sgi-altix-new-complex-tasks.html/feed Sweden in the Champions League the use of biomass http://swegene.com/sweden-in-the-champions-league-the-use-of-biomass-2.html http://swegene.com/sweden-in-the-champions-league-the-use-of-biomass-2.html#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:11:46 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=109 “Sweden is one of the best examples that the political will on the order and, when it comes to the rapid and efficient development of biomass energy use,” was CEO of Ernst Scheiber Austrian Biomass Association in early December at a press trip convinced. The excursion “Bio energy: World market versus region,” in the 38 Austrian journalists / s and experts who took part, led to various Swedish biomass projects - from the biogas plant waste on the mainly biomass beschickte district to short train with live forests Harvest and test stations for new energy plants. One thing is all the biomass initiatives in common: they are the result of that Goran Persson introduced “Swedish way” towards independence from fossil fuels by the year 2020 - an objective which all levels of government as well as the economy series. “Among the municipalities has a real race started as soon as possible to energieautark,” Schreiber said enthusiastically. And the best thing is: Municipalities and local groups are dedicated to their own particular strengths in terms of raw material resources or logistical opportunities best possible use. One of its many sustainable energy mix is the result.
Taxes by taxes
As one of the central control elements - in the truest sense of the word - Schreiber sees in this context, the tax policy. The fact that about ten percent of the Swedish government revenues from energy taxes, not just shows the enormous importance of energy issue for the Scandinavian country, but also allows the financing of intensive and innovative research and development in this area. It is striking that in Sweden - much stronger than in Austria - the issue of waste disposal in the integrated energy and waste as raw material for power and heat production is used. Calculations of the Austrian Association and biomass the Osterreichischen Energy Agency that may be exacerbated by the intense energy use of biomass waste the potential in Osterreich so by around 60 percent. Even at other levels could Austria many of the Swedish model of success abstain, suggested Schreiber and called the development of district heating as an example: While in Sweden, 40 percent of households with such heat, whether it be in Austria just 17 percent - a Share, taken in the coming years through targeted incentive programs to increase applies. In the recently adopted “Tullner Declaration”, the Austrian Association of biomass development goals for the domestic energy system by 2020, in large part with those objectives also cover the red-white-red policy (hopefully in the near future ) Has called: 45 percent of primary energy revenue to 2020 through renewable energy sources covered. The biomass is one of the main roles given - its contribution should be at around 157 PJ to 280 PJ in 2020 increased. Much as it will certainly be the conversion losses from the primary to the end to reduce the energy yields per hectare and increase the production cost per unit of energy possible to keep low. Even with the current government negotiations has been sent to these energy goals so far recorded. In a first step, the share of renewable in 2010 to 25 percent raised, then in 2020 to the previously mentioned 45 percent. By the year 2010, approximately 100,000 households in renewable energy be converted by 2020 to at least 400,000. The declared objectives are also a renewable energy share of at least 80 percent in 2010 and by 85 percent in 2020 and ten percent biogenic fuels by 2010 and 20 percent by 2020.
Large employment potential
Are essential in this context the enormous employment potential in environmental technology in general and in the field of renewable energy sources specifically slumber. Currently generate the about 35,000 employees in this industry has an annual turnover of around four billion euros, about half of which is accounted for clean energy technologies. Especially noteworthy is the rapidly growing export rate, the mid-90s still in around half was, 2003, there were already 65 percent, and the trend is still upward. The number of employees in the field of environment technology is to be doubled by 2020, something that Ernst Schreiber than the minimum considered: “Not just in football but also in the field of renewable Austria must only for those who bio energetic Champions League ‘qualify — the league in Sweden has long since established. The potentials are there any, but we must efficiently, “says Ernst Schreiber concluded.

]]> http://swegene.com/sweden-in-the-champions-league-the-use-of-biomass-2.html/feed AKW incident Sweden http://swegene.com/akw-incident-sweden.html http://swegene.com/akw-incident-sweden.html#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:48:27 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=126 Not only of the Temelin nuclear power plant provides headlines. In Sweden, there is an increasing number of accidents and failures of nuclear power plants. Last week came in Forsmark nuclear power plant to a loss of Not stromgeneratoren. Then one of the reactors were shut down. On Wednesday evening, two more nuclear rectors for security reasons has been discontinued. This in Oskarshamn, because the safety of the plant no longer be guaranteed. The problem with the thing is that the cause of the disruption until now is not yet known. Cause of the situation was a short circuit in the network. Such incidents over the intermediate diesel generators supply of pumps and other nuclear power plants in operation. But these wanted from inexplicable reasons not continue. Experts refer to this incident as the most dangerous since Chernobyl.
Criticism from Greenpeace
Greenpeace criticized the trivialization of the incident in the Swedish For mark nuclear power station by Austrian and Finnish nuclear experts. “The repeatedly cited INES scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA says nothing about what would happen and how far Europe is facing a new Chernobyl Supergau away,” criticized Greenpeace nuclear expert Erwin Mayer. According INES scale was the incident with class 2 assessed. The incident is classified initially by the operator of the NPP, not by independent experts. Only then can the IAEA, whose aim is after all, nuclear energy worldwide to promote a reduction or - mostly - Hinaufstufung. “Only a few false steps can be an incident from the INES category 2 in the shortest possible time a Category 5, 6 or 7 - as in Chernobyl -. In the case of the Forsmark nuclear power station has even the Swedish supervisory authority SKI in its investigation report of a” extraordinary “incident spoken,” concludes Mayer of Greenpeace.
Our hero
Since the accident, the city For mark a new hero. Nicklas Sjulander acted quickly and decoupled the control to an external power supply. Already nearly 22 minutes after the first failure. This could prevent a meltdown. Had he acted in accordance with the rules, a response only after 30 minutes (!!?) order, the consequences would be incalculable.

]]> http://swegene.com/akw-incident-sweden.html/feed The Swedish SEB http://swegene.com/the-swedish-seb.html http://swegene.com/the-swedish-seb.html#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:19:42 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=125 A leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, announced today that the Stockholm-based Skandiaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), one of the leading banks of Europe, now the anti Fiserv Net Economy Money laundering (AML) compliance management solution use. The AML implementation in 17 countries in Europe and Asia while inexpensive in a period of 18 months and is for the tax provisions designed to reduce and reduces potential money laundering activities. The SEB is in some of the most difficult to control countries, including China, Ukraine and Russia. The SEB brings with Fiserv Net Economy AML Compliance Manager a powerful tool on the market, according to regular stores worldwide agreement banning.
“The SEB, the AML matters very seriously. We wanted to find a solution, based on the current strategies and methods oriented, but also to the various local regulations,” led Jan Bjorkman, AML Officer of the SEB. “The SEB has selected Fiserv, as they have a centralized and flexible solution, for a high degree of functionality and makes effective use of resources. SEB has a major competitive advantage if we are to Fiserv Net Economy AML compliance management solution for monitoring reports of transactions and implement. Fiserv’s detailed knowledge of AML, regulatory affairs and their competence in the discovery of fraud mean that we are at the forefront of the market and therefore can say is this technological partnership for our proven business like. ” “The financial institutions at the forefront fighting against money launderers and consider trust and its reputation as an important capital, which is worth, by the strictest security measures to be protected,” there Sebastian Kuntz, president of Fiserv in the Department of fraud and tracking solutions Minutes. “New regulations require that banks, customers and activities on a previously never exercised level monitor. Fiserv’s solution is for sophisticated analytical tools that can defuse potential weaknesses.”
The Fiserv Net Economy AML Compliance Manager software solution is a fully integrated anti-money laundering system, the existing IT infrastructure of SEB uses to his advantage. The central hub is located in Stockholm and the additional satellite installations in Russia. With the combination of transaction monitoring, case management and automatic reporting is the SEB in a position effectively to the highest degree of accuracy and operational efficiency to provide without additional staff resources to unduly burden. The SEB to reinforce its AML continued by an implementation of the Advanced module Peer Group (APG) for an advanced peer group analysis. The APG module creates profiles, the usual analysis of customer behavior similar to those out their activities at any time deviate significantly from the average and goes through the standard peer group functionality far beyond. The APG module provides an enhanced resolution and transparency for the monitoring of customer groups and risks; increased precision and predictability of warnings, and better forecasting force on money laundering activities, with a risk AML closer to the exercise and management go hand in hand.
About SEB
The banking group SEB is a North European financial group, the 400,000 business customers and institutions, and 5 million private customers. The SEB has local offices in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Approximately half of SEB customer uses the Internet for their banking transactions. The group is in about 20 countries worldwide and has 20,000 employees.
About Fiserv, Inc.
The Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), is a member of the Fortune 500, and provides information management and e-commerce systems and services for the financial and insurance industry. Leading services include transaction processes, outsourcing, electronic bill payments and presentations Inventions management solutions, outsourcing of business processes (BPO), software and system solutions. The headquarters is located in Brookfield, Wis.. The company is the leading provider of software solutions Kernverarbeitungs for U.S. Banks, credit cooperatives and sparkassen. The Fiserv was regarded as the largest provider of information technology services for the financial services industry worldwide in the Fin Tech 100 surveys in 2004, 2005 and 2006 classified. In 2007 the company completed the acquisition of Check Free, a leading provider of e-commerce services. Fiserv included in the Annual Report with a total turnover of nearly U.S. $ 4 billion in current transactions in 2007.

]]> http://swegene.com/the-swedish-seb.html/feed Swedish land systems http://swegene.com/swedish-land-systems.html http://swegene.com/swedish-land-systems.html#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:10 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=124 The Oresundquerung belonging to the Swedish land systems have been adopted by the Svensk-Danska BrofOrbindelsen SVEDAB AB and the Swedish Road (Vagverket) jointly gebaut.Die 100 years old Kontinentalbahn (red drawn) is up to the completion of the City tunnel (blue drawn) is the main link for the entire railway between the main railway station and the Central Malmo Oresundquerung. To cope with the increase in rail traffic between the Kontinentalbahn Stockholmsvagen and Fosieby / Lockarp on the entire range twin expanded so that they are suitable for higher speeds. For security reasons, lost all transitions with the streets and on separate levels.
The traffic to and from the Oresundquerung runs in a 90 m wide and 10 km long corridor between Lockarp and Lernacken with the railway route (Oresund rail) in the middle and the motorway lanes (Yttre Ringvagen) to the right or left. The Yttre Ringvagen runs another 10 miles to the east and north to MalmO and closes on Kronetorp distribution to the existing highways E6 and E22.

]]> http://swegene.com/swedish-land-systems.html/feed Solar World AG sold 65 percent of the Swedish subsidiary GPV module to Borevind AB http://swegene.com/solar-world-ag-sold-65-percent-of-the-swedish-subsidiary-gpv-module-to-borevind-ab.html http://swegene.com/solar-world-ag-sold-65-percent-of-the-swedish-subsidiary-gpv-module-to-borevind-ab.html#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:08:23 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/solar-world-ag-sold-65-percent-of-the-swedish-subsidiary-gpv-module-to-borevind-ab.html Solar World AG sold the majority of its Swedish subsidiary Gallivare PhotoVoltaic AB (GPV) to the Swedish Borevind AB. Both partners signed a purchase agreement for 65 percent of the shares. The purchase will be at year-end 2007 effective for 2008 is a planned initial public offering. Solar World AG remains at 35 percent in the Scandinavian module manufacturer. GPV northern Gallivare maintains a production for solar power modules with a capacity of 30 MW, which since 1999 in possession of the Solar World Group found. The existing supply relationship between PRG and the World Solar 2008 and remain in subsequent years. About Borevind: Borevind AB (publ) is the first and only investment company of Sweden in the field of renewable energies, to the stock market is gone. Borevind invests in the OTC traded companies, products and services in the market for renewable energy development, an area of rapid technological development, which is a great potential.
Borevind is not an investment company that invests risky. The strategy is long-term and based on the acquisition of stakes in companies with low risk. Borevind invests in companies that operate in areas of energy such as wind power, solar energy, bio-fuels, fuel cells, heat, geothermal, wave energy and other sectors. The need for alternative energy sources will grow and will in the future energy supply of paramount importance. The competitiveness of renewable energies will be improved by future developments in technology and rising world prices for all types of energy continue to improve.
The investment portfolio of Borevind includes companies that are developing wind farms, solar energy systems and heating with bio-fuels devote. The head office of the company is in Henan, an island in the archipelago off the Swedish west coast. The share is Borevind on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, OMX First North, traded. About Solar World AG: The Group of Solar World AG (ISIN: DE0005108401) is the world’s leading trio of the solar power industry. The group is exclusively in the core business of solar power technology and all forms solar value chain - from raw materials to turnkey silicon solar power plant -. The company has manufacturing facilities in Germany, Sweden and the United States. In California is the largest manufacturing solar modules and in Oregon’s largest wafer production for solar cells and the United States. In Freiberg in Saxony the group operates one of the most modern integrated Solarfertigungen the world. The current main markets include Germany, the United States and the rest of Europe, particularly Spain. Sales office in Germany, Spain, California, South Africa and Singapore serve the international solar markets. The Solar World Group sells internationally grid-connected solar power in addition to products increasingly rural solar power solutions, which will make an important contribution to sustainable economic development in rural areas. After the IPO at the end of 1999, the company within a few years become one of the largest integrated solar technology groups. At the end of the 3rd Quarter were 1,969 people for the group. Solar World AG is the stock market, among others, the technology index Tec DAX, in OkoDAX, the Dow Jones STOXX 600, in the international MSCI index and the sustainability indices DAX global Alternative Energy and NAI noted.
In addition, committed to the World Solar on the social level to the idea of sustainability and to raise awareness of the resources and climate protection.
Manager magazine commends yield strength of the Solar World AG
Earnings strength is one of the central features of the Solar World AG. This is an analysis of the “manager magazine” on the basis of the figures for fiscal year 2006. The magazine praised the group as one of the ertragsreichsten companies in Europe. Of the 500 largest analyzed stock companies in Europe reached the Solar World AG and the third place was the best companies in the industrial goods sector.

]]> http://swegene.com/solar-world-ag-sold-65-percent-of-the-swedish-subsidiary-gpv-module-to-borevind-ab.html/feed Sweden found particular interest http://swegene.com/sweden-found-particular-interest.html http://swegene.com/sweden-found-particular-interest.html#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:01:40 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=121 The “resource center” are now in the entire Baltic Sea region. Experiences of the network in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will be used. The network “resource center” invited to an international workshop. Guests were women from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Finland of the project FEM. The focus of attention was on the activities of the network resource center here in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Hosted by the Institute of Management GmbH Rostock, in cooperation with the association women in the economy. The Resurs center (competence centers), which has its roots in the women’s movement in the countryside, are in Sweden and now in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to known addresses for a start-up. By now have eight active center points are already well over 400 women and men on the road to the creation and support regional networks to support the existing businesses. Presented was the FEM project, especially the developing conditions of women in the Baltic region - new job opportunities and living alternatives - will show. A participant from Estonia: “We can not sit at home and can not see when our women sit at home.” The women have a regional network meeting Stavenhagen know how the idea in the region upheld and supported, and the daily work on the ground in the rural areas looks. The women from Sweden found particular interest in the master tables of women entrepreneurs in Rostock, Parchim, Wismar or Grevesmuhlen, they will also initiate in Sweden. The cooperation of FEM and the network resources center will not only facilitate the exchange of experience effect, but international business relations move.

]]> http://swegene.com/sweden-found-particular-interest.html/feed The Swedish national team landed in Innsbruck http://swegene.com/the-swedish-national-team-landed-in-innsbruck.html http://swegene.com/the-swedish-national-team-landed-in-innsbruck.html#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:27:28 +0000 admin http://swegene.com/?p=120 On the players around national coach Lars Stock Beck wait in Tyrol now thousands of Swedish Fans, the Innsbruck tomorrow, Saturday, in a sea of yellow and blue transform. It is envisaged that the Swedish fans are 15.30 tomorrow against the clock in Innsbruck Maria-Theresien-Strasse and take in a huge Fanzug the Tivoli stadium and to the Public Viewing on the Bergisel hike. And of course they wait to brilliant moves of the Swedish star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. After a clear victory against Greece at the meeting in Innsbruck second game of this group the two winning teams of the first Game each day. So whoever wins tomorrow, is almost Security already in the quarter-finals. Tyrol is pleased, however, about peaceful and friendly fans. “The Spaniards have already proved what mood they bring to the Tyrol, “says it Josef Margreiter, Managing Director of Tyrol advertising. “And in Sweden We are now sure that they are consistent with Nordic Friendliness is the ideal complement to the Mediterranean temperament . ” However attracts Josef Margreiter also have a positive balance on the first Week of euro Fight in Tyrol. “Especially for our service international media in the Media Lounge Tyrol is full set. The report covers the whole World and brings enormous benefits to our country. ” Is particularly proud Margreiter on the multimedia press service . “We offer bilingual print and Audio stories and provide ready-made TV material. The Service will be very well received. Above all, those media who are not Resources, directly on the ground, can still spoken, Sound and image from Tyrol report. This multimedia Press service, we have the regions of the euro a Fight clear advantage. “

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