News archive 2021
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Partnership will provide easy access to hydrogen technology testing
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The competences in hydrogen technology testing are spread out over a multitude of smaller actors. FORCE Technology and Danish Gas Technology Centre (DGC) will change this with a new partnership. -
Pioneering technology for veterinary diagnostics becomes independent subsidiary
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FORCE Technology establishes new subsidiary to handle sales and international growth in using AeroCollect technology, which, with simple air samples, provides a picture of the diseases in a herd. -
DNV certifies new SimFlex Cloud simulator platform
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Design and performance verification ensures that ship managers and training organisations can enjoy innovative new simulation training capabilities according to international regulations. -
Danish GTS institutes help secure the future of Venice
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Venice port authorities get help to widen the Malamocco Canal so that large cruise ships no longer have to sail through the old city with pollution and higher water levels as a result. -
New centre is going to make the world more sustainable with advanced sensors
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On December 1, the Centre for Advanced Sensor Technology, CAST, opened. Danish companies and knowledge institutions have been given a place to go when they lack test facilities, expertise, and advice. -
SimFlex Cloud navigation simulator platform unveiled
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New levels of training flexibility and realism as cloud-based simulator integrates Augmented and Virtual Reality with instructor-led and self-study programmes. -
The MEGA loop construction has begun
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In August 2021, CEO Hanne Christensen and Mayor of Vejen Egon Fræhr took the first step towards the largest investment in the history of FORCE Technology: The MEGA loop for calibrating flow meters. -
AIOLOS, new research project for optimised wind turbine blade production
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With automation and digitisation, a new research project aims to optimise factory output at low cost in the green offshore wind energy. -
'Intelligent' 3D-printed bridge with Danish technology is inaugurated in Amsterdam
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FORCE Technology has developed the sensor network that provide input for the digital twin of a new 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam. It makes it possible to follow the condition of the bridge real time. -
World's first OIML R139: 2018-certificate for hydrogen refuelling station has been issued
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FORCE Certification has issued the world’s first OIML R139: 2018-certificate of conformity on the metering module for a hydrogen dispenser from Nel Hydrogen to be used for refuelling cars. -
New test centre to make hydrogen dreams and climate ambitions come true
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Danish Gas Technology Centre and FORCE Technology have received a grant of DKK 6.8 million from the Green Labs DK programme to establish a test centre for hydrogen technology. The centre will be the first of its kind in Denmark and will help the energy sector with the demanding but necessary transition to hydrogen and Power-to-X. -
FORCE Technology gets new chairman of the board
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As of 1 July 2021, the chairmanship of FORCE Technology will change from Frederik Smidth to Jesper Haugaard. -
MEGA loop revitalised
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The expansion of the laboratory facilities for gas flow calibration at FORCE Technology in Denmark, better known as the MEGA loop project, has been revitalised in the wake of the COVID pandemic. -
Danish research takes risk management in wind farms to new heights
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FORCE Technology is a part of a new Danish research project with the aim of developing an automated solution to in-service inspection of wind turbine blades. -
Annual report: Robust exit from a year of historic difficulty for FORCE Technology
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COVID-19 made for difficult conditions in 2020, but FORCE Technology achieved satisfactory operating profits of 62 million DKK. This is an increase of 56 million DKK relative to 2019, due primarily to the divestment of several business areas. -
The Scandinavia's largest climate chamber is being upgraded to be able to test in extreme cold
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FORCE Technology and LORC are upgrading the climate chamber at the Odense Port so that large systems and equipment can be tested to -60oC. -
Sophia Loren has been replaced by The Terminator
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Mechanical testing of different structures and large full-scale components is vital to optimise structures as well as prolonging lifetime and thereby ensure savings. -
FORCE Technology experts: High speed likely caused grounding in the Suez Canal
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What happened when the 400 m long cargo ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday March 23rd 2021? Our experts have recreated the incident in a ship simulator. -
FORCE Technology will test COVID-19 related products within a project funded by the European Commission
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FORCE Technology has been selected to be the laboratory to test personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers for market surveillance authorities from 23 EU/EEA countries within the framework of a specific project on product safety.