"you Can come in as a supplier to the ESS and Max IV, it is a very cool market." Lund’s two new major research facilities can illuminate the situation for technology companies in southern Sweden and Denmark.
In the summer was inaugurated in the Max IV laboratory in Lund, and the construction in progress of neutronanläggningen ACE in the same city. Both will be among the world’s most advanced "light microscope", to be used by the researchers in order to look really close at the material on the atomic and molecular level. And both will need to technology companies as suppliers.
In the region, work is now under way to get the technology companies to understand the needs of the two large plants have and will have, and what companies can do to become current as suppliers.
– We shall be the best possible region for the Max IV and ESS to work in. It is also important that we take advantage of the opportunities that they bring, ” says Anna Hall, vice president of IUC South, the Industrial centres in Region Skåne.
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It is about the possible agreement, but also to be a region where it is attractive to work in technology companies. IUC South look here at how it looks on other similar research facilities, for example, at the nuclear research facility Cern in Switzerland.
– In the Cern ports 80 percent of the operating budget on companies within a 20 mile distance. So we need a local supplier base.
the Facilities in Lund need suppliers who can perform work with very high precision, like moving and placing of instruments, samples and other objects. Or 3d-printing, control systems, support and to get different types of systems to interoperate.
– you Can enter as a supplier to the ESS and Max IV, it is a very cool market, where other research sites in Europe, ” says Anna Hall.
One example is the Danfysik in Taastrup outside Copenhagen, which delivered the big magnetpaket which is a part of the particle accelerator in the Max IV. The company is also a supplier to Cern.
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IUC South, organises conferences and study trips, where regional companies will meet the research facilities in Lund, sweden. Areco Dvel is one of the technology and engineering company that has participated. Dvel consists of eleven employees who are engineers and scientists, and develop control systems and test and measurement systems.
– The event we have been involved with have been very valuable for us. It is about building confidence over the long term, but also on technical discussions and to understand the skills needs, ” says Riki Virc, ceo Dvel.
There are big competitors on the skills locally, such as ÅF, Combitech, Ericsson and Axis. The two research facilities will contribute to make the region attractive to work in, but also means that competition for labour increases.
” We hope to be able to grow in the coming years. It is difficult to find the right skills, but it is attractive and attracts people now, ” says Riki Virc.
Two large research facilities
Max IV is a Swedish-owned synkrotronljusanläggning, which acts as a large microscope to look at materials on the atomic and molecular level. The new plant was inaugurated in June of this year, and now in October
Max IV consists of an electron gun, a linear accelerator where the electrons are coming up in the near the speed of light, and two circular accelerators, one with a circumference of 528 meters. There are powerful magnets, the electrons oscillate, which means that they release a strong light. The light is guided into the strålrör – right now 14 – where it collides with the material to be investigated.
the Cost of the Max IV will be completely developed six billion. Around 250 people will work there. Max IV are expected to have the visit of 2 000 researchers every year who use the plant.
ESS, the European spallation center, is a neutron source being built in Lund, sweden. The first neutrons are expected to be produced around 2020, and the facility will open to researchers in 2023. ACE is a pan-european projects funded by the member states in a consortium. The construction cost is estimated to be 18.4 billion.
ACE, have a great protonaccelerator, where the protons in a tunnel at 537 metres to comes up in a speed close to the speed of light. In a målstation is switched neutrons loss, and guided to the experimental stations where the neutrons are used as a microscope for analysing samples of material at atomic and molecular level.
ACE is expected to have between 400 and 500 employees, and be able to receive 3 000 researchers per year.
Source: Max IV, the ESS, Lund university
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