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5 unusual facts about Piteå


Kraft process

Weyerhaeuser has operated a Chemrec first generation black liquor entrained flow gasifier successfully at its New Bern plant in North Carolina, while a second generation plant is run in pilot scale at Smurfit Kappa's plant in Piteå, Sweden.

María de Buenos Aires

The opera was translated to Swedish by Leif Janzon and premiered by the Piteå Chamber Opera on 15 October 2011 at Acusticum in Piteå (Sweden).

Markbygden Wind Farm

Markbygden Wind Farm will be a series of interconnected wind farms in the Markbygden area west of Piteå, in northern Sweden.

Norrbotten NEO

The ensemble was formed 2007 and is based in the concert hall Studio Acusticum in Piteå, Sweden.

Vargon

Vargön, Piteå, an island in the northwest of the Swedish sector of the Bay of Bothnia, in the Piteå archipelago


Kalix dialect

Kalix language is very much related to nearby languages/dialects westwards and southwards Råneå, Luleå, Piteå, Skellefteå, Umeå northwards Overkalix etc., basically mutually intelligible with Kalix language as they all are part of a broader Westrobothnian dialect continuum.

Kampala Kids League

Between 2001-2009 KKL prepared a youth soccer squad to travel to Europe and this popular team have won 21 International soccer tournaments, including becoming 6 times Gothia Cup World Youth Cup champions, Norway Cup winners, 8 time Tivoli Cup winners, 3 times winners of Football Festival Denmark, and lifting Haarlem Cup Holland, Pitea Summer Games and Storsjocupen tournaments in Sweden.

The Kristet Utseende

In 2005 the band reunited and performed on the Hultsfred Festival as well as on Augustibuller (literally: August sound pollution), Piteå dansar och ler (literally: Piteå dances and smiles), Sundsvalls gatufest (literally: Sundsvalls street party), Arvikafestivalen (literally: Arvika festival) and in Lund.


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