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North East tech employed in Sweden

Two North East businessmen have been handed a multi million pound contract with a Swedish firm just months after starting up their own company.

Nick Drew and Derek Lister launched Nicander earlier this year and have won a major contract for their development and maintenance of a traffic management system in Stockholm.

The Central Technical System (CTS) provides traffic managers with the ability to control traffic flow and provides support in response to road accidents.

Derek Lister said: “As a new company, winning this contract was a great achievement fir us.

“Our expertise and Swedish partners are what we believed enabled us to win the contract and we are looking forward to the prospect of even more work in Sweden.”

The Wynyard Business Park organisation secured the new five-year contract from the Swedish Roads Administration (SRA), the country’s equivalent of the Highways Agency and has already created seven new jobs in their new and improved 2,500 sq. ft office space.

The CTS system currently ‘talks’ to 29 different external computer systems, which enables the program to control CCTV, motorway signals and message signs for the Södra Länken Tunnel, Europe’s longest urban motorway channel.

With one major contract under their belts, Nicander now intend to compete for more business on the continent.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .