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Santa Claus' popularity is increasing also virtually. The ten-year-old Santatelevision.com, an Internet television channel focusing on Santa Claus, his elves, Christmas around the world and northern lights, expects a million visitors this Christmas. This means that the channel is expected to have a 25 per cent growth this year. Tommi...
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STX Finland Oy and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs have signed a contract for the construction of a Polar Supply and Research Vessel. The ship will value approximately 116 million Euros and its employing effect will be about 600 man-years. The ship will be built in STX Rauma shipyard and it is expected to be ready for...
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The R&D investment growth of companies headquartered in the European Union increased by 8.1 per cent in 2008. The global increase was 6.9 per cent. Over two subsequent years the growth has been clearly faster within the EU than in the USA and Japan. Two EU companies, Volkswagen and Nokia, were among the top 10 R&D investors. Volkswagen was in...
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Viking Line Abp has won this year's Finnish Quality Award -competition. The award, which is given annually by Excellence Finland (Suomen Laatukeskus), is presented to organizations operating in Finland as recognition of excellence in efforts to improve the quality and competitiveness of these operations. Viking Line was awarded the First Prize...
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International technology Group Andritz will supply and install a High Energy Recovery Boiler, HERB and an evaporation plant for CMPC's pulp mill in Laja, Chile. The delivery includes also the complete instrumentation, control system and electrification for the processes delivered. The total value of the contract is approximately 100 million...
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Raisio is the very first food producer in Finland that has marked a carbon footprint meter on its products. The color code tells about the size of the product's carbon footprint. With the meter Raisio aspires to help consumers in making ecological decisions also in regards to foodstuffs. According to the recent Climate Focus Nordic-research...
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The Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy has chosen three new accelerators for Vigo-program coordinated by the National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes. These new participants are Cleantech Invest Ltd, Koppi Ltd and Food Process Innovations Ltd. The goal of Vigo-program is to accelerate the growth of start-up companies through...
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Finnish 11-year-old Alex Karttunen is one of the winners of the See the Bigger Picture- photography competition. The competition was part of The Green Wave, a youth engagement programme of the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity, encouraging young people to learn about the complexity of life on earth and its role in their...
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Finnish film What Became of Us has won the Best Euro Feature award at the International Film Festival of South Africa. In September the film, which has been directed by 22-year-old Miika Ullakko and realized entirely by an amateur film crew, was the winner of the Audience Award as the Best Feature Film of 2009 at C&CIFF Film Festival in...
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Heartbeats (Kohtaamisia) directed by Saara Cantell and Letters to Father Jacob (Postia pappi Jaakobille) by Klaus Härö received awards at the international Nordische Filmtage - Nordic Film Days 2009 -film festival in Lübeck, Germany. Heartbeats was chosen as the Best Feature Film in the Baltic Films -category, while Letters to Father Jacob won...
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Rautaruukki has signed contracts for delivering components for bridge projects in Vladivostok, Russia; Warsaw, Poland and Sweden. The value of the three contracts totals 5,5 million Euros. The components will be made at Ruukki's Toijala plant in Finland. Vladivostok's Golden Horn -bridge will be nearly 1.4 kilometers long, linking two of the...
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Metso will supply a biomass boiler to the Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Sacul, Texas, USA. The installation features a boiler and a distributed control system. The commercial operation of the plant is scheduled for 2012. The biomass boiler plant will utilize bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology and will use waste wood from logging and...
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Kesko has been rewarded for the best corporate responsibility report and good supply chain reporting in the Corporate Responsibility 2009 competition. The jury appreciated the openness, transparency and the variety of practical case examples of Kesko's corporate responsibility report. The reporting competition was held for the 14th time. This...
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Wärtsilä has signed a ship design contract with Pipavav Shipyard of India. The contract calls for a total of 12 Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) to be designed by Wärtsilä and built by Pipavav, for delivery to ONGC - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, which is the largest oil and gas producer in India. The yard is scheduled to begin production...
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There are approximately 6400 companies in Finland, which have been established by immigrants. The number is about three per cent of all the companies in the country. The number of foreign entrepreneurs has doubled since year 2000 and companies within this sector employ approximately 20 500 people. - Actually there are more companies...
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