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Clipper Round the World started in Finnish command, when Team Finland, led by the Finnish skipper Eero Lehtinen won the first race from Humber on the southeast-coast of England to La Rochelle in France. - It was a good warm up. It hasn't quite sunk in yet that we've actually started the race and that it's actually happening. It was almost too...
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The Finnish tractor manufacturer Valtra will deliver 306 tractors to China. The value of the deal is 20 million Euros and it also includes spare parts and training. The tractors will be delivered to China's northeastern province Heilongjiang. The 208 horsepower vehicles belong to Valtra's T191 HiTech series and they will be manufactured later...
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VTT Technical Research Centre Finland has investigated different possible uses for community waste. At the moment 60 per cent of the community waste ends up in landfill sites. According to research carried out by VTT for instance separately collected organic waste could be utilized as the raw material of ethanol fuel producing biorefinery. The...
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Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply a barge-mounted power plant to serve a mining operation in Papua New Guinea. The contract, signed in August, is valued at approximately EUR 57 million. The customer is Lihir Gold Limited, a leading global gold company, and the power plant will provide electricity to its Lihir Island gold mine. The power...
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Metso will supply a complete fine crushing and screening system to Norsk Stein's Jelsa quarry expansion in Norway. The delivery will be completed by June 2010. The value of the order is approximately EUR 27 million. The order comprises of four gyratory cone crushers, eight series inclined screens, a stacker conveyor, and a significant amount...
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Inaria Interactive, a game company and a business brand of Lapland Studios in Rovaniemi, will publish a Wii-game called 'Lead the Meerkats'. The game is likely to be the first Finnish Wii-game in the WiiWare download service. - In Lead the Meerkats -game the player has to lead a pack of meerkats through the Kalahari Desert with a plenty of...
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For the seventh year in succession, Kesko was selected for the Dow Jones sustainability indexes DJSI World and DJSI STOXX. In the annual review 2009, Kesko gained the subsector's best score for its innovation management, risk management, standards for suppliers, environmental reporting, operational eco-efficiency, and corporate operating...
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Laitex Oy is an enterprise specialized in the design and manufacture of tailored solutions for materials transfer and handling applications for process industries globally. The company's expertise lies in engineering and manufacture of conveyors and conveyor systems. Laitex has recently received over a million Euro order from a Swedish company...
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Italian Elsevier Masson, a world's leading publisher of science and health information, has chosen the Finnish SFINX database into its repertory. The drug interaction database has been developed by Medbase Ltd. The publisher produces for instance the Italian equivalent to the Finnish Pharmaca Fennica and maintains a medicine register. Medbase...
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The Chicago Transit Authority has awarded a contract to the Finnish technology group Teleste for a system-wide security camera control and recording system covering 144 rail stations. The order value is approximately 3 million Euros. The contract includes the supply, integration, and support of Teleste's VMX video management and network...
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Justus Mutanen from Lyseonpuisto Upper Secondary School, Rovaniemi, triumphed individual championship in the 17 to 18 age-category in the International Statistical Literacy Competition for young people, which was held in Durban, South Africa on August 20th. The competition was organized in connection with the world congress of the...
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The airline Blue1 will increase its flights between Central Europe and northern Finland by opening new routes from Paris and Düsseldorf to Kittilä in the Finnish Lapland. The company will also continue flying between Helsinki and Kuusamo, Ivalo, Kittilä and Rovaniemi this winter. The company is pleased with the popularity of its flights...
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Finnish lactose-free milk has been launched in the US. The product, which found its way onto the shelves of American supermarkets in August, has now entered the product range of nearly all the East Coast retail chains and is available in 3200 stores. The entry to the American lactose-free dairy market is a major breakthrough for Valio. It has...
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Kone has won a contract from Metro Rome for the maintenance of all units, such as escalators, autowalks, elevators and stair lifts, which are installed in the Rome underground lines. The three-year maintenance contract is worth over 12 million euros, including modernization activities which account for more than half of the amount. The...
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Wärtsilä's scrubbers offer a proven solution for markedly lowering sulphur oxide emissions. After performing successfully in a series of tests, the Wärtsilä sulphur oxides (SOx) scrubber has been granted the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) Compliance Certificate by the classification societies Det Norske Veritas and Germanisher Lloyd. A...
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