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Business Region Göteborg AB
Box 111 19
SE-404 23 Göteborg
Sweden
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Norra Hamngatan 14
Phone: +46 31 61 24 02
Fax: +46 31 61 24 01
Ecoex West Swedish Environmental Export
Ecoex-Working together for environmental progress

Why do we have such clean and unspoiled nature in Sweden? One answer may be our long history of political commitment and implemented environmental decisions and technology, together with continuous research and development of new solutions, products and technology.

Behind the ECOEX project are several public organisations that operate in West Sweden. Our efforts are an expression of the public ambition to develop the environmental sector and to make the environmental companies increase their export of knowledge, products and services. Almost 40 % of all the environmental research in Sweden is performed at the region´s universities. There are also a number of environmental institutes and NGOs in the region.

Ecoex works as a network contact broker and public relations office

ECOEX


- West Swedish Environmental Export

• Coordinates contacts between West Sweden´s environmental companies and decision makers outside Sweden that require environmental expertise.

• Works as a network, contact broker, and public relations office.

• A joint project involving the organisations Business Region Göteborg, Innovatum i Trollhättan, and Green Market Sweden in Falköping.

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Environmental ambitions and solutions since 1969

 
1969 Swedish environmental protection act.

 
1986 Sweden´s first recycling centre was built in Falköping.

 
1992 Göteborg is the first city in Europe to establish an environmental zone in the downtown area, to limit the exhaust from heavy vehicles.

 
1996 In Trollhättan, the first full-scale biogas system for vehicles in Sweden was officially opened.

 
2002 The sewage-treatment plant Ryaverket in Göteborg adds a fourth step to their sewage treatment, thereby reducing the discharge of nitrogen.

 
2003 Göteborg improves its district heating system with further heat and power production from waste incineration and bioenergy. About 80 % of the entire city´s heating demand, as well as the power demand of about 40 000 homes, is now being met with waste heat from industries, waste incineration and biofuel.