Labrie Environmental Group, the Canadian manufacturer of equipment for the solid waste industry, is this year’s winner of the Swedish Steel Prize. The company won the prize with its new vehicle model – the Wittke Starlight. According to the jury, this entry puts to most evident use the breadth and opportunities offered by high strength steels, due to the precise optimization of all parts of the vehicle, which are made mainly of high strength steel sheet.
”I am very surprised – and very happy!”
Labrie Environmental Group, Inc. was winner of Swedish Steel Prize 2009. SSAB CEO Olof Faxander revealed the jury’s verdict at the China Theatre in Stockholm. Two very happy representivs of the canadian company entered the stage.
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”This award will make a huge difference in Nepal”
– We have decided to donate the 100,000 SKR award to Björn Söderberg, and his ongoing projects in Nepal, announced Jean Bourgeois, CEO of Labrie Environmental Group and got standing ovations from an audience, moved to tears.
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The Swedish Steel Prize is an international prize. In essence, it can be won by anyone who has developed a product that includes high-strength steel or a method that expands the field of application for high-strength steels. The winners may thus be individual persons, companies or institutions.
The Swedish Steel Prize was awarded for the first time in 1999. It is an annual prize which is destined to encourage all of those who open new paths - be they large or small - towards development and improvement.
The winner of the prize receives a statuette by the artist Jörg Jeschke and a scholarship amounting to SEK 100 000.
In 2009, the Swedish Steel Prize was awarded on November 18 at the China Theatre in Stockholm.
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