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Health Technologies

  • ”Wood cast” in demand

    Onbone Oy’s new fracture treatment method made of woodchips and biodegradable polymer is the first ecological alternative on the market. The non-toxic product concept, which...

  • Better births

    – How to make childbirth easier for both, the mother and the midwife?, ponders Eija Pessinen, a woman with a long career as a midwife. The search for an answer to this...

  • Specialization in joint replacements is worthwhile

    Joint replacement hospital Coxa Oy brings top class surgical expertise to the public sector services. This operating model has proven to be lucrative, in addition to which it...

  • Biodegradable materials continue growing

    Professor Pertti Törmälä has impressive 30-year experience on research and development on biodegradable materials in medical science. “Competition is tough and only products...

  • Virus therapy destroys cancer cells

    Oncolytic viruses are developing into a new and effective means of treating cancer. Al-ready 200 late-stage cancer patients at the Helsinki based Docrates Clinic have been...

Headlines

Konecranes delivers five RTG cranes to the island of Sumatra

Monday, 26 July, 2010
In June 2010, Konecranes received an order for five rubber tired gantry (RTG) cranes from the Indonesian state-owned terminal operator Pelindo 1. The cranes will be delivered to Belawan International Container Terminal, ‘BICT’, owned by Pelindo 1. BICT is located in the city of Medan on the west end of the Malacca strait, along main... Read more

Outdoor clothing from out of the wilderness

Monday, 26 July, 2010
Outdoor textile manufacturer Sasta tests its products under authentic conditions. With its headquarters in the middle of the wilderness around Nurmes in North Karelia, the company has been manufacturing high quality, well designed textiles for outdoor and hunting use already for the past forty years. - Our operation brings together a long... Read more

Vaisala contributes to the rescue of the Baltic Sea in Pärnu

Monday, 26 July, 2010
Expert in environmental and industrial measurement, Vaisala will deliver a hydrological forecasting system for the Pärnu River basin in Estonia. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Estonian Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and Tallinn Technical University. Once the project is completed, the data provided by the system... Read more

Reinforced plastic manufacturer has the wind in its sails

Friday, 23 July, 2010
Ekin Muovi Oy, the Virtasalmi-based reinforced plastic manufacturer, has succeeded in growing its output even during the recession. One reason for this is the contract it signed with the Finnish wind power company WinWInD to produce the machine room housings for wind power stations.  The housings are the size of a small private house and they... Read more

VTT and Deinove work together in developing biofuel production methods

Friday, 23 July, 2010
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Deinove, a French specialist in the development and commercialization of environmentally friendly and high-performance processes for production of biofuels and chemicals, will begin co-operation. The project, which runs under the title DEINOL, researches the production of ethanol from cellulose. The... Read more

Wärtsilä delivers power generating equipment to Canada

Thursday, 22 July, 2010
Wärtsilä, a global supplier of decentralized power plant solutions, will deliver power generating equipment and associated engineering for a power generation project in British Columbia, Canada. The contract comprises three Wärtsilä 20V34SG gas engine generator sets running on natural gas, which produce a combined output of over 26 megawatts.... Read more

Erä-Eero leads the way into predator country

Thursday, 22 July, 2010
Eero Kortelainen from Lieksa spends his working days among predators. His company arranges guided tours into the countryside where the biggest attractions are Finland’s large, wild predators. In the wilderness surrounding Lieksa, visitors get to see bears, wolverines, wolves, lynx and foxes. - Bears and wolverines are the most popular. Foreign... Read more

Pioneers in nanophotonics

Wednesday, 21 July, 2010
Lehmo-based Nanocomp Oy has been a pioneer in nanophotonics in Finland since 1997. This hi-tech company is one of the few in its field even on a global scale. Nanophotonics involves the direction of a beam of light using micro- or nano structures. At a practical level, it is applied, for example, in mobile phones and in the lenses of camera... Read more

Nokia Siemens Networks strengthens its global position

Wednesday, 21 July, 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the majority of Motorola's wireless network infrastructure assets. The value of the acquisition is 1.2 billion US dollars, paid in cash. The acquisition is expected to strengthen NSN's position especially in the United States and Japan. As part of the transaction, Nokia Siemens Networks expects to continue... Read more

Promising results for the treatment of HIV positive patients

Wednesday, 21 July, 2010
Tampere-based FIT Biotech Oy has published promising research results on the treatment of HIV infection. The biotechnology company has succeeded in developing a therapeutic vaccination, which reduces the virus count of HIV-positive patients. The results, which were published at the XVIII International AIDS 2010 Conference in Vienna, indicate... Read more


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