White Christmas

Not since 2001 has entire Sweden had a White Christmas. And before then it was 1981. Here in south Sweden we get a white Christmas in average every 11 years. At present we have snow to the power of 2. Traffic has been complete chaos the last few days. In many places I've visited through the years they imagine that here we have polar bears roaming the streets and we travel to work by sledge. This is not the case. Some years we've had 4-14°C and rain all through the year.

But when I look out the window and see 30 cm of snow I am like a child again and start making elaborate construction plans for snow forts, armies of snowmen and such.

And then I snap out of it and realise it's Monday morning and there is plasma business to take care of. So, here I am in my cosy office with central heating looking out at a snowy landscape planning for the coming product launches of 2010. As you may have noticed we have finally had our website updated with the new single phase plasma systems plus the new 100 A SPEEDFIRE.

Next year holds in store a new plasma that will replace UPPERCUT. We have not yet decided the specs on that machine. (That is marketing talk for what the engineers mean when they say "we are not yet sure how much we can squeeze out of it".) But it will be bigger, better and more powerful. Hopefully not too much more expensive though.

The market also seems to be improving and at the moment everything that we can produce until the end of the year is sold. This week we are winding down and look forward to a restful holiday. SPT remains open for business throughout the holiday but must of us are away on holiday.

So, from all of us to all of you we wish you a restful holiday and we look forward to pick up where we left off on January 11th.