Finnish startups get help in Big Apple

Help is at hand for Finnish startups establishing themselves in the United States. Finland’s financial weekly Talouselämä reports on an incubator called Nest New York set up by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, and The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries. The companies currently accepted into the... Read more

Ehovoc delivers cleantech plant to Taiwan

Ehovoc, an international environmental technology provider, has made a breakthrough into the Asian markets with the biggest sale in the company’s history. The Finnish cleantech company is delivering volatile organic compounds (VOC) treatment plant to a Taiwanese flexo print concern, with an option for another plant delivery later on. Ehovoc’s... Read more

Enevo secures angel funding 

One man’s garbage is another man’s gold. Enevo, a Finnish company creating smart sensors to improve the logistics of the waste management industry, has just closed a 200,000 euro angel round with Lifeline and four angel investors. Waste management companies cannot afford to have their waste trucks driving out and dumping containers which are... Read more

Finnair and Japan Airlines deepen their co-operation

Finnair, and its oneworld partner Japan Airlines (JAL), are deepening their co-operation. According to a Finnair press release, Japan Airlines will start flying from Tokyo to Helsinki four times a week beginning March 2013. Finnair and JAL have operated codeshares together for several years, and the new flight deepens their cooperation. JAL is... Read more

Outotec to provide slag concentration technology for Chile

Outotec is to supply technology for the leading copper producer in the world, the Chilean company Codelco, in connection with the slag concentrator used at the Potrerillos copper smelter that the company is having built.  The contract is worth some ten million euros. The order includes two grinding mills, flotation cells and a pressure filter... Read more

Angry Birds get a themed area in Särkänniemi amusement park

Rovio Entertainment’s Angry Birds get their own “land” in Särkänniemi amusement park, located in Tampere, Finland. The Angry Birds Land will be opened in this summer and it is designed especially for smaller children. Särkänniemi’s summer season kicks in on 28th of April. — We want to motivate our fans – children as well as adults – to be... Read more

VTT transforms phone into microscope

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an optical accessory that turns an ordinary camera phone into a high-resolution microscope. The device is accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre. KeepLoop, a new Finnish company based in Tampere, and VTT are already exploring the commercial potential of the invention. The first models... Read more

Kone delivers new lifts to a 100-meter high hotel tower in Sweden

Kone is delivering 23 eco-efficient elevators to the Gothia Towers hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden. The order has been placed by the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre and Peab. A new 100-meter high tower will be added to the hotel complex, making it the highest building in Gothenburg. In addition, the 18-story centre tower, Crown Tower, will be... Read more

Finland has largest share of economy based on ICT

Finland leads the world in the share of its economy based on the production of goods and services related to information and communication technology (ICT), according to the latest United Nations statistics. Nearly ten percent of the country’s non-agricultural business workforce is employed in the ICT sector. The data was released by the UN... Read more

Mendor continues its rapid growth with a new partnership in UK

The Finnish diabetes technology company Mendor continues its rapid growth. The company announced an international partnership distribution agreement with a leading pharmaceutical company in the diabetes field, Merck Serono, covering the United Kingdom diabetes market. Mendor develops, manufactures and markets innovative diabetes management... Read more

Finnair to offer smoother departures for its customers

Finnair, the Finnish national carrier, is renewing its pre-flight services at Helsinki-Vantaa airport in order to offer smoother departures for its customers. All the economy class service desks will be changed into Baggage Drop desks where any hold luggage can be left after the check-in. Company’s service desks will continue to assist... Read more

VTT sets up foam forming project

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is working with industry to develop new recyclable and lightweight wood fibre products Between them, they have set up a new pilot scale technology platform for foam forming applications. The project hopes to demonstrate that foam forming technology can decrease raw material and production costs for a... Read more

Tammermatic to co-operate with Statoil

Washing equipment solution manufacturers Tammermatic have signed a three year co-operation agreement with the Norwegian company Statoil, to include an optional two year extension.  The Tampere-based company will supply Statoil service stations with the car wash machines together with the necessary chemicals and maintenance services. The... Read more

Cabforce teams up with Estonian Air

Just weeks after its official launch, Finnish start-up Cabforce.com appears to be going from strength to strength. The online booking service for taxis, executive cars and minibuses says Estonian Air is the first airline to give public access on its website to Cabforce. Estonian Air passengers can now make bookings at the same time as their... Read more

Finnish runner crosses Sahara solo

A Finnish ultra-distance runner has become the first person to run solo across the Sahara desert. Forty-eight year old Jukka Viljanen completed the 1,600-kilometre distance in 31 days. His route took him from the Moroccan town of Tan-Tan in the Anti-Atlas mountain range to Southern Mauritania near the Senegalese border. Along the way, he faced... Read more