Spiffy Pizza Machine, Airport Bussing Halt, and a New Biobank in Lund. Catch up on last week’s news.
A high-tech pizza machine at Campus Helsingborg delights students as they walk to the cafeteria. The pizza machine, by itself, produces the dough and adds the ingredients to the final product. However, the ‘fast food’ machine is not so fast. One round takes a total of two and a half minutes.
A Lundian biobank is to be built and expects to receive millions of new test materials for storage and later use. The biobank is located where AstraZeneca was once located. An interesting new component has also been added wherein a robot inserts the test tubes mechanically into the -80 degree freezer boxes.
A strike is planned for Monday at all Swedish airports for workers running the bussing systems between towns and terminals. The strike is intended as a sympathetic move to protest the refusal of employers and municipalities to hire new workers in the nursing branch. These events will affect airport buses at Arlanda, Bromma, Malmö, Västerås, Landvetter, and Göteborg starting at 2pm. Further actions are also planned for the following Friday.
Swedish snus is currently on the line after a new EU-ruling on flavored tobacco is laid forth. The ruling is putting a ban on flavored additives that according to Swedish snus producers are essential for the manufacturing of snus. “This would mean the end of Swedish snus,” says EU Parliamentary representative Christofer Fjellner. But Fjellner doubts that the ruling will come through. “I expect that Swedish representatives will stand as one to vote down this issue.”
Kent Persson is to replace Sofia Arkelsten as the Swedish right wing party Moderaterna’s new party secretary. According to the article in Svenska Dagbladet, Kent Persson’s hiring is a result of a “rise in speed” in the party’s movements. Reasons as to why Arkelsten has stepped down so soon have not been made entirely clear by prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. However, he has stated that she “intends to move in a new direction in her life and we will further explain at a later time.”
