Bern (ots) - Since it was first commissioned in early November 1972, Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM), owned by BKW AG, has produced more than 108 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity reliably and cost-effectively. This corresponds to almost twice the volume of electricity consumed annually by the whole of Switzerland. Successful operation coupled with the ...
Bern (ots) - Samuel Leupold, member of the Executive Board and Head of the Energy International and Trading division, is leaving BKW mid-February next year, to take up a position as member of the executive board of Danish energy company Dong Energy, where he will be responsible for the off-shore wind division. Samuel Leupold joined BKW on August 1, 2006, as Head of Production. Since April 1, 2008, he has been a member of ...
Basel, Switzerland/Miami, USA (ots) - FleetPro Passenger Ship Management ("FleetPro") will commence operation on November 1st, 2012, and be the leading independent manager of passenger ships with a worldwide operation in both the ocean going and river vessel markets. FleetPro results from the combination of River ...
Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Sequana Medical is pleased to announce that it has received CE mark approval for use of its alfapump® system in patients with ascites caused by cancer (malignant ascites). The alfapump® system was first introduced to the European market last year for patients with refractory ascites ...
Zug (ots) - AmVac AG has announced that it has made decisive progress in the development of their new RSV vaccine. The vaccine candidate is based on AmVac's innovative Sendai virus vector platform and developed for the prevention of respiratory infections, which are induced by RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). RSV ...
Bern (ots) - BKW is lodging an appeal with the Federal Administrative Court against the decision issued by the Federal Electricity Commission (ElCom) at the end of September 2012 concerning the value of the transmission grid. The appeal concerns an objection to the method defined by ElCom for determining the value ...
Quantum Global Corporate Servives AG
Zug, Switzerland / London, GB (ots) - Quantum Global Real Estate ("Quantum Global") und LaSalle Investment Management ("LaSalle") announce that Plaza Global Real Estate Partners ("Plaza"), their joint venture, has contracted to purchase a 49.5% interest in 521 Fifth Avenue from SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) ("SL ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Le Guin, the new German handcrafted luxury eyewear manufacturer, and WISeKey, the Swiss digital brand protection company, recently partnered to protect and enhance Le Guins newly launched titanium eyewear collection. Developed and manufactured in an established high-end factory in the south of Germany, with decades of expertise in the field of mechanical engineering and craftsmanship all Le ...
Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce that BINOSTO (TM) (alendronate sodium) Effervescent Tablet for buffered oral solution (70 mg) is now available by prescription in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year approved BINOSTO to treat ...
Lugano, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia (ots) - Helsinn Healthcare SA and STA reinforce their Cancer Supportive Care Alliance in Australia and New Zealand with a Distribution and License Agreement for the innovative phase III ghrelin receptor agonist Melbourne biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics ...
Bern (ots) - Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and Apple have reached an agreement on the use of SBB's station clock on certain devices such as iPads and iPhones. This arrangement has been mutually agreed by both parties in a licence agreement. For the use of the clockface on certain Apple devices such as iPads and iPhones, the parties have negotiated an arrangement that enables Apple to use the SBB station clock under a ...
Obermutten, Switzerland (ots) - Obermutten now has a museum - the Obermutten International Museum of Friendship (OIMOF). "Since we opened the OIMOF in our barn, we have received over 80 friendship gifts," beams mayor Martin Wyss. A year ago, the village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden started a Facebook page, ...
Lugano, Switzerland & Vienna, Austria (ots) - New data presented at the 2012 meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Vienna show antiemetic efficacy maintained across the chemotherapy cycles and a positive safety profile The oral formulation of palonosetron, the second generation 5-HT3 receptor ...
Park Ridge, NJ/Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - The Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ) the world's largest general use car rental brand, and Emil Frey Group have signed an agreement for Emil Frey Group to join Hertz's global franchising network and purchase the Hertz car rental business in Switzerland, representing a total of 30 locations. Mark P. Frissora, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for The Hertz Corporation, said: "Hertz ...
Freienbach, Switzerland (ots) - EffRx Pharmaceuticals SA is proud to announce and welcome Lorenzo Bosisio, new Head of Business Development and Marketing. Lorenzo will be responsible for the outlicensing and marketing of EffRx's approved product Steovess®/BinostoTM outside of the USA and Canada as well as developing the business for EffRx's other pipeline products. ...
Zürich-Oerlikon (ots) - Qnective AG ( http://www.qnective.com/ ) is looking back on a very successful first 6 months of 2012. The Swiss based company, founded in 2006, offers services in communications security and secure Voice over IP solutions to customers all over the world. The business development pipeline is ...
New York (ots) - WISeKey in cooperation with the International Organization for Secure Transactions Foundation (OISTE.org) pledged in 2006 at the Clinton Global Initiative to provide a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Identification Authorities worldwide with the ...
Lugano (ots) - Helsinn Group announces that on September 18th it has signed a license agreement with CJ CheilJedang, Korea for Helsinn's new product for potential use in the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). The agreement covers the exclusive license and distribution rights for a ...
Bern (ots) - The Board of Directors of BKW Inc. has appointed Dr. Suzanne Thoma as the new CEO of BKW Inc. Effective 1 January 2013, she will take over as Chief Executive Officer of BKW from Kurt Rohrbach, who was elected as full-time second Vice Chairman at the Annual General Meeting on 11 May 2012. Suzanne Thoma has been Head of the Networks Division and a member of the Group Executive Board since 1 August 2010. She ...
Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Albis Technologies successfully participated in EANTC's public multi-vendor interoperability event and the showcase at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC). Interoperability was demonstrated with the ULAF+ ACCEED solution in the fields of Business Access and Mobile Backhaul. Daniel Berz, Senior Technical Sales Manager of Albis ...
Lugano, Switzerland / Raleigh, N.C., USA (ots) - Gelclair® Strengthens DARA's Growing Portfolio of In-licensed Oncology and Oncology Supportive Care Products The Helsinn Group of Switzerland announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with DARA BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DARA) for U.S. ...
Tianjin, China (ots) - During the World Economic Forum's sixth Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin (also known as the Summer Davos), WISekey has announced the launch of its WISeID BOCO mobile service in China coinciding with the nomination of WISeKey as one of the 2012 Global Growth Companies of the World ...
Bern (ots) - Despite a challenging economic and regulatory environment, the BKW Group recorded a better result for the first half of 2012 than in the prior-year period. Consolidated operating revenue rose from CHF 1,346.4 million in the prior-year period to CHF 1,368.1 million, corresponding to an increase of 1.6%. Operating profit before depreciation, amortisation and ...
Geneva, Tianjin, Barcelona (ots) - WISeKey announces at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin an agreement with the Football Club Barcelona to build the first global WISeID FC Barcelona generated social media content trusted community. The FCB WISeID is a sports mobile software application to enable social ...
Lausanne, Switerland (ots) - Nestlé Nespresso SA, the pioneer and reference of the premium portioned coffee segment, today announced two important developments in its commitment to aluminium sustainability. Firstly the company has reached its 75% capsule recycling capacity objective one year ahead of plan. In ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey announces the appointment of Mr. Robert Wolf to its Advisory Committee. The committee, chaired by Carlos Moreira, founder of WISeKey, provides advice to the WISeKey board of directors and senior management regarding matters of strategic business development and future revenue growth for ...
Bern (ots) - Following the annual revision, BKW FMB Energy Ltd. (BKW) has restarted Mühleberg (KKM) nuclear power plant. The 2012 annual revision lasted from 5 August to 2 September 2012. During the revision, fuel elements were replaced, repeat tests and maintenance work were carried out, and renovations made to the plant. This year, 32 of the 240 fuel elements were ...
Bern (ots) - BKW Inc. has completed its ultrasonic tests on the reactor pressure vessel at Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM). No anomalies were detected. The safety of the plant is assured. Towards the middle of August, suspected manufacturing faults in the base material of the pressure vessel of Reactor 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant were reported. This ...
Bern (ots) - In keeping with its policy of safety first and based on the information currently available on the Doel 3 nuclear power plant in Belgium, BKW Inc. has decided to conduct ultrasonic tests on the reactor vessel at Mühleberg nuclear power plant (KKM). The test conditions have been defined by the Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI). The work will be performed as part of the current revision. Towards the ...