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Textile services company Lindström Group is expanding its operations in India. A new business unit was established in New Delhi in November. The unit will be offering workwear services to local businesses. - We are currently looking for premises for the new unit. According to our research, there is significant demand for our services in the...
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Researchers from the Helsinki University of Technology together with University of New South Wales in Australia and University of Melbourne have succeeded in building and measuring a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The research findings were published recently in Nano Letters, a...
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The very first international Millennium Youth Camp will take place in Helsinki next June. A total of 995 youth from all continents submitted an application for the camp. On the basis of these applications 30 participants will be chosen. The camp is organized by Finnish LUMA Centre, Technology Academy of Finland TAF, the Ministry of Education...
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The National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes and the Singaporean Agency for Science, Technology and Research, A*STAR will renew their contract of co-operation with the aim of increasing R&D activities between the two countries. The new contract will continue the research and technology collaboration which was started three years ago. - The...
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Finnish industrial chemicals company Kemira has signed a co-operation agreement with the international development organization Plan. The contract was signed in the end of November. The goal of the co-operation is to support children's rights to water, health and development by arranging concrete projects in different countries. The purpose of...
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Finnish farmers Jyrki Ankelo and Katariina Vapola have received the Baltic Farmer of the Year Award on Thursday 26th of November. The award was presented to the couple by Thomas Johansson, Group Sponsorship at Swedbank and Lasse Gustavsson, Chairman of the WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme. Vapola farm, which is located in Uusikaupunki on the...
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Campfire 2 Go, a ready made campfire produced by SCA Packaging Finland and Valmisnuotio Oy, has been awarded this year's international WorldStar -design award. Earlier this autumn Valmisnuotio Oy won an award also in ScanStar 2009 -design competition. Campfire 2 Go is a ready-to-ignite campfire parcel, which is packed inside a corrugated...
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Metso, UPM, and VTT have developed a biomass-based bio-oil production concept to provide an alternative to fossil fuels. Since June of this year, the Metso R&D Center in Tampere, Finland, has been producing high-quality bio-oil from sawdust and forest residues. Fortum is now joining this development project. The consortium has developed a...
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Helsinki-based 7signal Oy, a technology company specialized in quality monitoring of wireless networks, has been chosen as the Business Incubator Company of 2009. Highly commended in the competition was Mikkeli-based A. Graveolens Ltd. which has developed an innovative "ceramer", a non-combustible and non-toxic alternative to traditional...
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Forest products company Stora Enso says that it will resume production at its Sunila pulp mill in Kotka. The mill has not been used since April 2009. According to Stora Enso, the market situation for pulp has improved since the spring, and the mill will be restarted by the end of the year. However, long-term uncertainties with respect to the...
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