News – 2012

Italy, Friday, December 21, 2012

BLOM TO SHINE LIGHT ON VEGETATION INTERFERENCE ON POWER LINES

Blom will acquire and process laser data for the Italian national transmission network manager, Terna. The data, captured with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), will be used to identify…

Sweden, Tuesday, December 11, 2012

BERGVIK SKOG (FORESTRY) – USING LIDAR FOR BETTER DECISION MAKING

The forestry applications of LiDAR data have taken off in Sweden! Blom delivers forestry mapping to several organizations including Bergvik Skog, a prominent user of modern remote sensing services….

Spain, Tuesday, December 4, 2012

RED ELÉCTRICA DE ESPAÑA CHOOSES BLOM TO IMPROVE MAINTENANCE AND ENGINEERING OPERATIONS

Red Eléctrica de España, S.A. (REE), the sole transmission and electricity system operator in Spain, has chosen Blom to assist with its plans to improve power line engineering and…

Parma, Thursday, November 22, 2012

BLOM’S ONLINE AERIAL IMAGERY ARCHIVE FOR ITALY, TERRAITALY.IT, IS RE-LAUNCHED

Following extensive updates Blom’s online aerial photography archive known as TerraitalyTM has been re-launched. The huge aerial portal, which allows anyone to quickly and easily purchase…

Oslo, Thursday, November 15, 2012

THE NORWEGIAN PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION BLOMSTREET PILOT PROJECT

During the summer Blom captured a pilot project for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA). The project comprised of approximately 25 km of county roads in Sør-Trøndelag and…

Oslo, Thursday, November 8, 2012

AN ARTICLE SHINING LIGHT ONTO BLOM’S ROTOR WING LIDAR OPERATIONS

Blom has a long and extensive experience of airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) and has been an industry leader within LiDAR technology for many years, delivering data captured by both fixed wing and…

Helsinki, Friday, November 2, 2012

LISTEN TO BLOM’S PRESENTATIONS AT GIS EXPO 2012 IN HELSINKI 6-7 NOVEMBER

Blom will attend the GIS EXPO 2012 conference in Helsinki, Finland, 6-7 November. GIS EXPO (Paikkatietomarkkinat) is the largest Finnish event in the field of geographic information. The program…

UK, Tuesday, October 30, 2012

BRISTOL WATER SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH INNOVATIVE SURVEY SOLUTIONS FROM BLOM

European mapping specialist Blom have completed a further aerial survey for Bristol Water. Following the success of the first aerial survey for Bristol Water in 2011, Blom were commissioned to…

Oslo, Wednesday, October 24, 2012

MOBILE MAPPING NOW OFFERED IN NORDIC COUNTRIES

Blom has recently added Mobile Mapping (car laser) to our product offering in the Nordic countries. The system has been used for a number of projects in the UK and will be capturing data on and along…

Oslo, Monday, October 22, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification INVITATION TO PRESENTATION OF 3RD QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT 2012

Blom ASA will publish its 3rd quarter 2012 report at 08:30 CET on the 25th of October, and invites investors, analysts and media to a presentation: Location: Thon Hotel Vika Atrium, Munkedamsv. 45,…

Stockholm, Monday, October 15, 2012

BLOM ATTENDING THE TEKIS EVENT IN SWEDEN

Blom will attend the TEKIS event in Stockholm, Sweden, October 15-16. Tekis is a large provider of software systems to governments and municipalities in Sweden. Tekis has built integrated solutions…

Brazil, Wednesday, October 10, 2012

BLOM WILL SHOWCASE LIDAR AND FORESTRY PRODUCTS AT FORESTRY EVENT IN BRAZIL

Blom will attend the Seminar on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Forest Engineering in Curitiba, Brazil, October 15 – 18th. Blom is attending the seminar as an Exhibitor, together with our… 

Oslo, Friday, October 5, 2012

PRESENTATIONS AND LIGHTENING TALKS BY BLOM AT ESRI USER CONFERENCE IN OSLO

Blom will attend the ESRI European User Conference (EUC) in Oslo, Norway October 15-17. Blom will held 2 presentations at the user conference: · BlomSTREET inside ArcView by Erik Sundheim…

Oslo, Tuesday, October 2, 2012

VISIT OUR STAND AT THE INTERGEO TRADE SHOW IN HANOVER 9-11 OCTOBER

Blom will attend the Intergeo Trade Show in Hanover, Germany October 9-11. INTERGEO is the world’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. You… 

Oslo, Thursday, September 27, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  CHANGES IN THE DATE FOR THE FINANCIAL CALENDAR 2012

Bucharest, Wednesday, September 26, 2012

BLOM TO BEGIN SIGNIFICANT CADASTRE PROJECT IN EASTERN EUROPE

Romania, Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  BLOM SIGNED NOK 22 MILLION CONTRACT IN ROMANIA

The Romanian subsidiary of Blom, has signed a contract to deliver technical assistance for new infrastructure; “Extension and rehabilitation water and wastewater infrastructure in Hunedoara…

Italy, Thursday, September 13, 2012

BLOM CAPTURES AERIAL IMAGERY OVER EARTHQUAKE HIT AREAS IN ITALY

Stockholm, Wednesday, September 5, 2012

THE CITY OF MALMÖ CREATES NEW OPPORTUNITIES WITH BLOMSTREET TECHNOLOGY

Greenland, Thursday, August 23, 2012

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURED IN GREENLAND

Despite challenging conditions three towns in Greenland have now been successfully captured by Blom as part of a photographic aerial survey project. The photographic survey was commissioned by NIRAS,… 

Oslo, Thursday, August 16, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  2Q 2012 RESULTS AND PRESENTATION

Today, Thursday August 16 2012, Blom presented its 2nd quarter 2012 results. The presentations was webcast. The report in full can be dowloaded here. REPORT FOR 2nd QUARTER 2012 Positive operating… 

Oslo, Monday, August 13, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification INVITATION TO PRESENTATION OF 2ND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT 2012

Blom ASA will publish its 2nd quarter 2012 report at 08:30 CET on the 16th of August, and invites investors, analysts and media to a presentation:   Location: Thon Hotel Vika Atrium,… 

UK, Monday, July 23, 2012

A COMPELLING COMBINATION; SURVEYING, MAPPING AND SMART GEO SOLUTIONS AT THEIR BEST

Sterling and Blom have come together to combine Sterling’s Utility ground surveying, geospatial products services expertise with Blom’s aerial imagery, LiDAR and 3D modelling… 

Oslo, Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  - BLOM ASA HELD AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING 11TH OF JULY 2012.

Johnny Andersson was elected as new member of the Board. Andersson is member of theGroup Management as Group General Counsel of the Hexagon Group, which owns 25percent of Blom ASA. None of the other…

Oslo, Wednesday, July 4, 2012

CYCLOMEDIA’S 360 DEGREE STREET LEVEL IMAGERY NOW AVAILABLE FROM BLOM

Blom ASA and CycloMedia have signed a general reseller agreement for all territories in Europe, after completing a successful pilot project in the Nordic countries. “We are proud to announce… 

Oslo, Friday, June 29, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - BLOM ANNOUNCES ONE YEAR EXTENSION TO THE AGREEMENT WITH MICROSOFT FOR DELIVERY OF OBLIQUE (BIRDS EYE) IMAGERY

Blom and Microsoft have extended the agreement for delivery of BlomOBLIQUE™ by an additional year. The extension was an option available in the five-year framework agreement signed between the…

Oslo, Wednesday, June 20, 2012

AN ENHANCED GIS PACKAGE FEATURING IMPROVED LIDAR TOOLS FROM BLOM

Blom has released v3.5 of its desktop geospatial application, BlomDESKTOP, including significant improvements to LiDAR functionalities. Aimed at professional and academic GIS users, BlomDESKTOP… 

Oslo, Wednesday, June 20, 2012

AN ENHANCED GIS PACKAGE FEAURING IMPROVED LIDAR TOOLS FROM BLOM

Blom has released v3.5 of its desktop geospatial application, BlomDESKTOP, including significant improvements to LiDAR functionalities. Aimed at professional and academic GIS users, BlomDESKTOP…

Oslo, Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

Blom ASA welcomes the shareholders in the Company to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting scheduled to be held on 11 July 2012 at 09:00 CET at in the company’s office, Drammensveien 165,…

UK, Friday, June 15, 2012

SHOWCASING THE VERY LATEST ‘BIRD’S EYE’ OBLIQUE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ACROSS LONDON

Whilst the UK gears itself up for hosting London 2012’s Olympic Games aerial photography specialist Blom has captured the final preparations as they get underway across Greater London. Making… 

Oslo, Tuesday, June 12, 2012

ARTICLE ON EFFICIENT USE OF LIDAR DATA FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND UTILITIES

In recent years the demand for high accuracy laser data within the infrastructure sector has increased. The market has discovered the benefits of using both existing off-the-shelf laser data, and to… 

Oslo, Friday, June 8, 2012

BLOM SIGNS IMPORTANT CONTRACT TO SUPPLY HIGH ACCURACY LIDAR DATA AND FLOOD MODELS FOR IGN IN FRANCE

Blom CGR France, Blom’s subsidiary in France, has signed a contract with IGN, the French National Geographic and Forestry Information Institute, for an airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and… 

Oslo, Thursday, June 7, 2012

ARTICLE ON EDITING OF LASERDATA

Blom has many years of experience in producing high quality elevation models from LiDAR data. Almost all deliveries are preceded by manual editing where the automatic classification is corrected for…

Oslo, Friday, June 1, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  HEXAGON ACQURIES MINORITY STAKE IN BLOM ASA

Blom ASA announces today that Hexagon AB, the leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation technologies, will acquire 25 per cent of the shares in Blom ASA for a total amount of…

Oslo, Thursday, May 31, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  1Q 2012 RESULT AND PRESENTATION

Today, Blom presented its 1st quarter 2012 results.   The presentation was webcast. Please see the webcast here. Please download the presentation here Please download the 1Q 2012 Report… 

Oslo, Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  APPROVED PROSPECTUS

Oslo, Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  INVITATION TO PRESENTATION OF 1ST QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT 2012

UK, Tuesday, May 29, 2012

CELEBRATE A SUMMER OF SPORT WITH BLOM’S STUNNING AERIAL PRINTS

Oslo, Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - NOTICE OF ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING 2012

Blom ASA welcomes the shareholders in the Company to attend an ordinary General Meeting scheduled to be held on 31 May 2012 at 09:30 CET at Thon Vika Atrium in Munkedamsveien 45, Oslo,…

Oslo, Monday, April 30, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - ANNUAL REPORT 2011

The Blom Annual Report 2011 are now available for download.   BLOM ANNUAL REPORT 2011

Oslo, Friday, April 27, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - THE BOARDS APPROVAL OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 2011

Oslo, Friday, April 27, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - CONTEMPLATING NEW BOND ISSUE

Oslo, Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETNG HELD

Reference is made to Stock Exchange Announcement dated 3. April 2012, where an Extraordinary General Meeting was called to vote for resolution to strengthen the Company’s capital structure and… 

Oslo, Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - BONDHOLDER MEETING HELD – BONDHOLDERS AGREED TO REINSTATE POSITIVE EQUITY IN BLOM

 

Stock Exchange Notification - LAST DAY OF TRADING IN “FRN BLOM ASA 2009 SENIOR SECURED BOND ISSUE 2009/2012”

Oslo, Friday, April 20, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - DATE FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND PRESENTATION OF 1Q RESULTS HAS BEEN CHANGED

Blom ASA has changed the dates of the Annual General Meeting and presentation of the results for 1st Quarter 2012.   The new dates are: 1st quarter 2012 31.05.2012 Annual General…

Finland, Tuesday, April 17, 2012

BLOM SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERS LASER SCANNING SURVEY FOR RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN FINLAND

Blom have completed an aerial LiDAR survey for VR Track Oy, the leading rail constructor in Finland. Covering approximately 91 km, the survey ran along the main rail line spanning the Finnish towns… 

Finland, Thursday, April 12, 2012

BLOMSTREET™ IS PROVING ITSELF TO BE A GREAT TOOL FOR MUNICIPALITIES

Finland, Tuesday, April 10, 2012

STORM DAMAGE IN FINLAND DOCUMENTED BY DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOS FROM BLOM

Oslo, Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING AND UPDATE ON THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS

Blom ASA welcomes the shareholders in the Company to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) scheduled to be held on 25 April 2012 at 14:00 CET at Thon Vika Atrium in… 

Oslo, Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING AND UPDATE ON THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS

Blom ASA welcomes the shareholders in the Company to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) scheduled to be held on 25 April 2012 at 14:00 CET at Thon Vika Atrium in…

UK, Wednesday, March 28, 2012

BLUESKY BLOM PARTNERSHIP DELIVERS UNIQUE AERIAL IMAGES ONLINE

Using a powerful online server, high resolution images of hundreds of European cities can now be streamed direct to the desktop. The partnership between two of the UK’s leading geospatial data…

Finland, Tuesday, March 27, 2012

BLOMURBEX INTEGRATED TO ENIRO.FI

Eniro.fi is the most popular web map service in Finland and Blom’s oblique images have been an important part of this service for a few years. In 2011, Fonecta renewed their Eniro.fi service…

Oslo, Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - PROLONGED MATURITY OF BLOM’S MNOK 50 BOND

As announced in the stock exchange notices on February 27th 2012, February 29th 2012 and March 9th 2012 Blom has for some time been in dialogue with a majority of the bondholders regarding a process…

Oslo, Tuesday, March 20, 2012

CHANGES TO BLOM’S PRESENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA

We would like to announce a few small changes to the Blom social media accounts. To make it easier for our followers and to avoid duplication of information, we are combining all of our social media…

UK, Friday, March 16, 2012

MAPPING YOUR SOLAR POTENTIAL…

Bristol City Council have now gone ‘live’ and published an online map highlighting potential untapped revenue across the region. The map, freely available on the council’s website, shows the expected…

Oslo, Tuesday, March 13, 2012

BLOM LAUNCHES V3.2 OF BLOMDESKTOP VIEWER™

Blom announces the release of version 3.2 of the BlomDESKTOP Viewer, desktop application for geospatial data, with enhanced features and a collection of new functionalities, tools and datasets. The… 

Oslo, Friday, March 9, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS OF BLOM’S BALANCE SHEET

Reference is made to the stock exchange notice on February 27th 2012 regarding an update on Blom ASA’s (“Blom” or the “Company”) financial situation and the report for the 4th quarter 2011 dated…

Oslo, Tuesday, March 6, 2012

PICTOMETRY’S APPEAL REJECTED

As notified in the Annual Report for 2010there is an on-going dispute regarding the Technology License Agreement entered into between Blom and Pictometry on 29 January 2009 which was terminated in…

Oslo, Norway, Thursday, February 23, 2012

TOMTOM EXPANDS BLOM PARTNERSHIP TO GET EUROPE MOVING AGAIN

With the help of TomTom’s professional traffic analysis tools, Blom – a European provider of GIS services – can now enable governments in Europe to identify and solve the bottlenecks in… 

Parma, Italy, Monday, February 13, 2012

BLOM ASA AND UNICOM ANNOUNCE IMPORTANT CONTRACT WIN IN SAUDI ARABIA

Blom CGR, the Italian subsidiary of Blom ASA, has partnered with the Saudi Arabian firm Unicom to secure a contract with the Development Commission of Medina (DCOM). The contract involves providing… 

Oslo, Friday, January 27, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification  BLOM ASA SIGNS AGREEMENT TO DIVEST ITS DANISH SUBSIDIARY BLOMINFO A/S

Blom ASA (Blom) has signed an agreement to divest its Danish subsidiary BlomInfo A/S to the Danish engineering and consulting company NIRAS A/S. Blom will receive a consideration of DKK 19.4 million…

Oslo, Tuesday, January 24, 2012

AERIALOGICS EXPANDS INTO EUROPE WITH NEW PARTNERSHIP

As an esteemed aerial measurement services industry leader, Aerialogics has announced a newly signed contract giving the company exclusive rights to access one of the largest geographic imagery… 

Oslo, Monday, January 9, 2012

ONYOURMAP AND BLOM ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP AND THE RELEASE OF A COMMON HIGH PERFORMANCE MAPPING PLATFORM

OnYourMap and Blom announce their partnership and the release of a common high performance mapping platform, integrating the innovative OnYourMap technology and the renowned high resolution oblique…

Sweden, Friday, January 6, 2012

Stock Exchange Notification - BLOM SIGNS FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY €2.6 MILLION WITH STOCKHOLM MUNICIPALITIES

Blom has signed a framework contract with all 26 municipalities in the Stockholm region (Stockholms län), Sweden with an estimated value of approximately €2.6 million. The framework…