Maersk chooses Verity drones for warehouse inventory
Zurich/Florham Park - A. P. Møller Maersk is turning to flying drones from Verity to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network. After a six-month trial run at four Maersk North America sites, the plan now is to install drones in all the containership giant’s warehouses that have pallet storage.
WinGD collaborating on the development of a large-scale ammonia engine
Winterthur/Antwerp - Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd (WinGD) is partnering with the Belgian shipping and cleantech group CMB.TECH to develop a two-stroke engine powered by ammonia. In total, ten bulk carriers are to be constructed and equipped at a Chinese shipyard in 2025 and 2026.
UZH anchors gender medicine in teaching
Zurich - The University of Zurich is establishing the first Professorship in Gender Medicine in Switzerland. In so doing, it is seeking to ensure that gender-specific medical insights are first conveyed to students before being adopted in practice.
IRB discovers antibodies to combat future coronavirus variants
Bellinzona - At the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), researchers have discovered 15 regions of the coronavirus that do not mutate. In addition, rare antibodies against precisely these “coldspots” were found in convalescent patients. This could facilitate the development of therapies against existing and future variants.
Researchers improve diagnosis of rare disease
Zurich/Lausanne/Geneva - A broadly based team of Swiss researchers has been able to diagnose with much greater certainty the rare and incurable disease MMA after carrying out innovative research in this area. The disease affects one in every 90,000 newborn babies, who often do not survive past childhood.
Leonardo tests AW09 helicopter in Mollis
Mollis/Samarate - The Italian company Leonardo will keep its location in Mollis in the Greater Zurich Area after acquiring the helicopter company Kopter based there. It plans to use this site to test a new motor in the AW09 helicopters originally developed by Kopter.
Swiss venture capital market continues upward trend
Lucerne/Rotkreuz/Zurich - The Swiss venture capital market has recorded a record high once more for 2022. This is the result of the latest Swiss Venture Capital Report. ICT and cleantech startups attracted the most capital. More than half of all investments went to the canton of Zurich, followed by the canton of Vaud in second place.
First building rights agreement signed for Werkmatt Uri
Altdorf - Detail conception and infrastructure planning can start on the grounds of Werkmatt Uri: Cantonal Minister Urban Camenzind signed the building rights agreement for two construction areas on January 25. The canton and project developers now plan to start with multifunctional development on these sites.
Industry leaders join vertical farming startup Yasai
Zurich/Basel - The Bell Food Group has invested in the vertical farming startup Yasai. The startup’s Board of Directors is being fortified by the CEO of Bell Food Lorenz Wyss and the second new investor, Theo Stolze. He is a former shareholder of the Stolze Group, which specializes in tailored, technical solutions for greenhouse systems.
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