Stockholm, October 25, 2016 — Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announces that the trading in Gasporox AB’s shares (short name: GPX) commenced today on Nasdaq First North in Stockholm. Gasporox belongs to the Industrial sector and is the 64 th company to be admitted to trading on Nasdaq’s Nordic markets* in 2016.
Established as a spin-off from Lund University in 2005, Gasporox is a technology company offering instruments and services for gas monitoring in food and pharmaceutical packages. The company’s products are based on so called diode laser spectroscopy, and are used for quality control in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Gasporox holds a number of world-wide patents and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.gasporox.se .
"We are very happy about the huge interest we have received in our recent share issue and for the listing on First North,” said Märta Lewander Xu, CEO of Gasporox. “Our ambition is to give our new and potential future shareholders an interesting journey together with Gasporox. We believe that we can offer a unique product for quality control in food and pharma packages, and that our solution can help clients reduce costs in several parts of the production process. We strongly believe in our product and we are now shifting focus towards the commercialization of our technology."
“We welcome Gasporox to Nasdaq First North,” said Adam Kostyál, senior vice president and head of European listings at Nasdaq. “Gasporox will make a compelling addition to our Industrial sector, and we look forward to supporting the company with the increased investor visibility that comes with a First North listing.”
Gasporox AB has appointed G&W Kapitalförvaltning AB as the Certified Adviser.
*Main markets and Nasdaq First North at Nasdaq Copenhagen, Nasdaq Helsinki, Nasdaq Iceland and Nasdaq Stockholm.
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