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The Green Mountain teams up with SCR Altach
Landquart/Schaan/Altach - The Austrian football club SCR Altach is including vegan meat alternatives from The Green Mountain in its culinary offerings at its home stadium. With this move, the club which plays in the Austrian Bundesliga, is seeking to make its internal nutritional concept both sustainable and fit for the future.
ETH team locates origin of lung cancer
Zurich - Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) can see exactly where tobacco smoke changes the DNA of lung cells, thus encouraging the development of cancer. This new approach can be used to determine the safety of many chemical substances more easily than before.
Chinese battery company lists on SIX Swiss Exchange
Zurich/Hangzhou - Zhejiang HangKe Technology Incorporated Company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange on February 22. This makes the lithium-ion battery manufacturer located in Hangzhou, China, the first company to place global depository receipts on the Swiss stock exchange this year.
VirtaMed announces partnership with EndoQuest in Texas
Schlieren ZH/Houston - VirtaMed has announced a partnership with EndoQuest Robotics in Houston. The aim is to develop an innovative surgical robotic simulator. EndoQuest develops robots for fields such as endoscopy.
Sevensense accelerates logistics automation with new robotics solution
Zurich/Chicago - The robotics start-up Sevensense will be presenting its new solution for the testing of its autonomous robot system known as Alphasense Autonomy at the logistics trade fair ProMAT in Chicago. Alphasense Autonomy is intended to accelerate the development and deployment of AMRs and AGVs, while also offering improved performance and expanding their operational capabilities.
Xeltis raises 32 million euros
Zurich - The medtech firm Xeltis has raised a total of 32 million euros after successfully closing a financing round. Xeltis has also concluded a licensing agreement with Grand Pharma for aXess and other potential blood purification products in Greater China.
Switzerland offers the most attractive business locations in Europe
Zurich - The recently published fDi report for European Cities and Regions of the Future 2023 ranks the Swiss cities of Zurich, Zug and Basel as the most attractive business locations in their respective categories. In terms of foreign direct investment, Lugano, the cantons of Zurich, Zug, as well as the Greater Zurich Region, are all of particular interest.
Unisers secures investment totaling 14 million US dollars
Zurich - Unisers has raised a total of 14 million US dollars in seed funding as part of a financing round led by Intel Capital. With this fresh capital injection, the start-up now intends to deliver the first systems featuring its technology to identify contaminations in semiconductor chips.
Nestlé and EraCal enter into strategic partnership
Schlieren/Vevey - Nestlé is joining forces with the biotech firm EraCal Therapeutics from the Greater Zurich Area. The partners will seek to develop new compounds to facilitate controlled food intake. This would be of benefit to metabolic disease patients.
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