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The latest corporate and financial news from Sweco Group. For press enquiries, please contact our head of press and public affairs.
2007
New acquisition makes SWECO largest in Lithuania
”In the past year we have grown from 80 to over 800 employees in Central and Eastern Europe. Now we are adding another 175 employees and doubling the number of consultants in Lithuania,” says Per Johansson, Managing Director of SWECO Central and Eastern Europe. Hidroprojektas has most of its employees based in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second… Read more
SWECO acquires Norwegian Opticonsult – becomes one of Norway’s largest engineering consultancies
”The acquisition of Opticonsult will make us one of the largest and most competitive consulting engineering companies in Norway with a staff of nearly 800. It will also give us better geographical coverage in the country,” says Vibecke Hverven, Managing Director of SWECO Grøner. Opticonsult has most of its employees based in Bergen and Stavanger.… Read more
SWECO acquires additional company in Norway
”Tveiten is a valuable asset with impressive expertise, long experience. and a strong market position in southwestern Norway,” says Vibecke Hverven, Managing Director of SWECO Grøner. Tveiten AS is a mid-sized consulting engineering firm with 29 employees in the Telemark region, southwest of Oslo. The company’s speciality areas include water and wastewater engineering, environmental engineering,… Read more
SWECO chosen to electrify 100 villages in Botswana
”At the moment, we are carrying out a number of similar assignments in Africa, where rural electrification is contributing to improved quality of life, social development and the creation of new jobs,” says Anders Ståhl, Overseas Manager, at SWECO Energuide. SWECO will study electric power needs in the 100 villages and propose a suitable route… Read more
SWECO to plan new biofuel-fired CHP plant in Finland
The CHP plant will be built in Kerava, a city of 30,000 inhabitants some 30 km north of the capital of Helsinki. The plant will be fired with biomass fuels and will combine electricity and thermal production, covering about 75 per cent of district heating requirement in the city of Kerava. The plant is scheduled… Read more
He teaches future engineers to save energy – now he is being honoured with Swedish Energy Prize
”For his entire life Enno Abel has sought solutions for reducing energy usage in buildings, first as an engineer and later as a professor. He has also inspired many students and researchers at Chalmers,” says Karin Annerwall Parö, Managing Director of SWECO Theorells. Enno Abel has worked as a Professor at Chalmers University of Technology,… Read more
SWECO acquires Probeko in Gothenburg
“We will gain a valuable resource and reinforcement of our electrical expertise. Probeko has a prominent position in the health care sector and will be an excellent complement to our consultants who are also very strong that sector,” says Karin Annerwall Parö, Managing Director of SWECO Theorells. Probeko was established 20 years ago and provides… Read more
SWECO AB (publ)Interim report January-September 2007
• Operating profit improved by 26 per cent to SEK 296.8 million (236.1). • Operating margin strengthened to 9.1 per cent (8.6). • Net sales increased by 19 per cent to SEK 3,259.6 million (2,732.8). • Profit before tax was SEK 292.4 million (239.2). • Profit after tax was SEK 209.3 million (167.2) equal to… Read more
SWECO helping to alleviate water shortage in Kenya
“We have longstanding experience of working with water projects in Africa. In many cases, our assignments are focused on optimising use of the available water resources,” says Kaj Möller, Overseas Manager at SWECO VBB. The catchment area of the Ewaso Ng’iro River is the largest in Kenya, with an area of approximately 210,000 cubic km… Read more
SWECO awarded major contract for Förbifart Stockholm
“This is the biggest road project and the largest consulting procurement ever carried out for a road project of this type in Sweden. Many road investments are carried out in stages, but in this case the client has chosen to procure all consulting services at once,” says Mats Påhlsson, Managing Director of SWECO VBB. Förbifart… Read more
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