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Wetzikon - Reichle & De-Massari AG (R&M) has launched a program focused on the market for renewable energies. This offers particularly robust network technologies and services for the copper and fiber optic data networks of the wind, solar and hydropower industries.

Schlieren/Saint-Prex - PharmaBiome and the biopharmaceutical firm Ferring from the canton of Vaud will in future each jointly develop and manufacture specific bacterial strains to benefit intestinal health. Ferring has secured an exclusive license for therapeutics resulting from this collaboration.

Zurich/Heilbronn - Thanks to a donation from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation in Heilbronn, Germany, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) is planning to build a center for responsible digital transformation. Over the next 30 years, a total of 20 professorships are to be created at both the Heilbronn teaching campus and in Zurich.

Zurich/Cambridge - Marco Hutter will head up the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Zurich. At the same time, the co-founder of the mobile robot firm ANYbotics will remain active as Professor of Robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and Director of the ETH Center for Robotics.

Winterthur - Autoneum improves the acoustic and environmental performance of vehicles by using new components made from Propylat. The material, which comprises recycled synthetic and natural fibers, was developed by Borgers Automotive, a company that was acquired by Autoneum in April 2023.

Zurich - A technology recently developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich to guide tiny gas bubbles through blood vessels using ultrasound also works in the brain. In future, the technique could be used to transport drugs to precise locations.

Zurich - Koa has successfully completed a Series B financing round. With 15 million dollars in fresh capital, the Swiss-Ghanaian startup wants to scale up cocoa fruit upcycling and accelerate the transition to regenerative and climate-friendly agriculture.

Zurich - Switzerland is the most globalized country in the world. This is the result of the Globalisation Index 2021 published by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Economic globalization is recovering, while social globalization has not fully recovered from the pandemic.

Winterthur - WinGD and CMB, a Belgian operator of bulk carriers, have advanced their project to develop ammonia-fuelled ship engines. The Chinese engine manufacturer CSSC Engine and the shipbuilder CSSC Quingdao Beihi Shipbuilding are now joining the project, which was first announced in January.