Outotec signs a 116 million euro contract with National Copper Corporation of Chile

Outotec has signed a contract with the National Copper Corporation of Chile, Codelco for the design and delivery of a copper concentrate roasting plant, gas cleaning system and sulphuric acid plant for Codelco's new Mina Ministro Hales mine close to Calama, Northern Chile. The contract value is approximately 116 million euros. The delivery... Read more

Wärtsilä engines to propel South African research vessel

Wärtsilä has signed a contract with STX Finland Oy shipyard in Rauma to deliver four Wärtsilä 32 engines for an Antarctic polar supply and research vessel. The owner of the vessel will be South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs. The vessel’s crew will be trained at the Wärtsilä Land and Sea Academy in Turku. News about the contract... Read more

Finland wins silver at World Junior Chef of the Year 2010 in Dubai

The Finnish team cooked itself to the second place at the World Junior Chef of the Year competition held in Dubai. The team consisted of chef students from HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences. – Silver is a top class achievement, the best ever ranking by a Finnish team of chefs. This is a big thing to the Finnish restaurant industry,... Read more

Deere & Co continues investing in Joensuu

Deere & Company has accepted the new investment plan for John Deere Forestry Oy’s Joensuu factory. The next phase in the plan includes the building of a new office building, visitor centre and a canteen. In the past few years Deere & Co. has made significant investments on the products and production of the John Deere Forestry Oy factory in... Read more

Champion Door delivers hangar doors to aircraft giant Airbus

International aircraft manufacturer Airbus has made a significant order of airport hangar doors to the Finnish industrial door manufacturer Champion Door located in Nivala. The value of the order is several million euros, and the hangar doors will be delivered to Airbus’s seven factories around Europe. Airbus belongs to the European Aeronautic... Read more

Mauri Kunnas’ Robin Hood charms in eight languages

Master illustrator and children’s book author Mauri Kunnas’ latest book, Robin Hood will be published this year in eight different languages. The number of translations is exceptionally large. Robin Hood has captivated the Swedish back among Kunnas’ publishers, for over 15 years have passed since the latest publication of a Swedish language... Read more

Finnish Cleantech Cluster is the third most thriving in the world

Finnish Cleantech Sector ranked third in the Top 10 Cleantech Cluster Organizations for 2010 -comparison carried out by Sustainable World Capital, SWC. Finland was the leader among the Nordic Countries, following only Austria and the USA. The Finnish cluster was acknowledged for creating 40 new high-growth companies in the country and for its... Read more

Metso signed Value Adding Reseller agreement with Controlmatic GmbH

Metso has signed a Value Adding Reseller (VAR) agreement with German Controlmatic GmbH. Controlmatic is an innovative services provider operating in the fields of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), automation, electrical engineering, instrumentation and control and analytics. Controlmatic operates mainly in Germany but also in Austria and... Read more