HALIX B.V. has joined a consortium of partners under the guidance of the University of Oxford, to provide GMP manufacturing services supporting the large scale production of a COVID-19 vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19), being developed by the University’s Jenner Institute. This GMP manufacturing scale-up is taking place alongside early phase clinical trials. The trials are crucial in testing whether the vaccine is proven to be effective.

ALSO and Allied Telesis, partners for years, are now expanding their cooperation at a European level. The Japanese technology company Allied Telesis has for 30 years been a leading manufacturer of network solutions for companies, public administrations and organisations with critical infrastructure requirements.

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ALSO has partnered with P.E.G. eG, a leading purchasing cooperative in the German healthcare market, to enable its co-owners to obtain services from the ALSO Cloud Marketplace as-a-service, from IT workplaces to ward trolleys, `being always state of the art when technology is concerned.

ALSO is cooperating with BASF, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of 3D printing materials, which is marketing its Ultrasint®TPU01 product under the Forward AM brand. The material is especially suitable for manufacturing the tough, abrasion-resistant and flexible elastic parts required for sports and leisure footwear and by the automobile industry.

Net profit over 100 million euro (+24 percent). Board of Directors proposes a dividend payment of 3.25 Swiss francs per share (2018: 3.00 Swiss francs).

With this appointment, the Board of Directors is now complete. Next to Dr. Hans van Schijndel, in charge of the R&D program, the Board consists of Florian Rösch being the Chief Commercial & Financial Officer and Dr. Eize de Boer, the Chief Operations Officer taking care of Production and Quality Assurance.

Technology provider ALSO is continuing to expand its 3D technology portfolio. Newcomers to the range are the DWS and Leapfrog professional 3D printers and the Sculpto entry-level model.