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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

Metso delivers fiber board production equipment and defibrator systems to China

Friday, 09 July, 2010
Metso has signed two important contracts to China. The company will supply fiber board production equipment to YiYang SenHua Forestry Development Co. Ltd., Yiyang City, Hunan Province, and two defibrator systems to Guangdong Hanhong Wood Industry Co.,Ltd. for their site in Shaoguan City in the Guangdong province. The Yiyang delivery includes a... Read more

The evolution of stick-based exercise

Thursday, 08 July, 2010
Finnish company Gymstick International Oy’s family of exercise equipment has developed over recent years into a number of keep fit and wellness concepts. Set up by fitness professionals in 2003, the company has already been producing and developing fitness equipment for both enthusiasts and professionals for seven years now. To start with, the... Read more

Vaisala, the major contributor to 50 million euro CLEEN research project

Thursday, 08 July, 2010
The Finnish Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation for Energy and Environment, CLEEN Oy, launches a research program on environmental monitoring and services. The total value of the five-year program is 50 million euro, and a wide cross-functional consortium, including leading Finnish technology providers and research... Read more

Andritz supplies a new biomass boiler island to Swedish E.ON

Wednesday, 07 July, 2010
International technology Group Andritz will supply a 70 megawatt biomass boiler island for E.ON's Åbyverket power plant in Örebro, Sweden. The Åbyverket power plant is one of Sweden's largest biofuel-fired cogeneration plants. The value of the order is approximately 30 million euro and the start-up of the boiler is scheduled for the end of... Read more

Aspen’s microbes purify oily ground

Wednesday, 07 July, 2010
The fast growing Aspen, usually considered worthless, has been proven to have extremely beneficial properties. Aspen grows well in oily ground and the microbes, which grow in the tree’s root system, are effective in breaking down soil contamination. The newly discovered properties of the aspen were reported by the Finnish Tekniikka&Talous... Read more

Contract management gets its very own online bank

Wednesday, 07 July, 2010
Sopima Oy has done for the world of contracts what online banking did for payments. At the end of May the company was listed among Europe’s most interesting technology start-ups in the Microsoft global growth program. The company’s Managing Director Jaan Apajalahti already conceived idea behind Sopima Oy already while working in his previous... Read more

VR Group expands in Russia

Tuesday, 06 July, 2010
Transpoint International Oy, a subsidiary of the Finnish transport company VR Group, will acquire the entire share capital of Avain-Trans Oy, a provider of logistics and road transport services from Finland to Russia and other CIS countries and distribution services to Moscow and St. Petersburg.   - Through the acquisition we will be able to... Read more

Basware delivers purchase-to-pay solutions for Norway’s university and college sector

Tuesday, 06 July, 2010
Finnish expert in purchase-to-pay process automation, Basware will deliver Purchase Management, Invoice Automation and Scan and Capture services to UNINETT FAS, data administrator and service provider for Norway’s university and college sector. The value of the contract exceeds 3.5 million euro over the next 8 years. - We are happy to work... Read more

A flash of light makes crossings safer

Tuesday, 06 July, 2010
The idea for the Välkky warning module sprung three years ago from breaking street lamps. Now the product is on the market and its future looks bright, even on the international stage, according to its inventor Jouni Hänninen from Havainne Oy. In 2004 he began experimenting with hot-dip zinc coated street lamps which, according to the news,... Read more

Magisso - From a design concept to a finished product

Monday, 05 July, 2010
A successful company can even be born out of the sight of a kitchen cloth draped over a tap. That sight grated on Miika Mansikkamaa's nerves for so long, he came up with the solution. Today his innovative and patented kitchen cloth holder is a global product. The raw idea that came to him in 2006 of a magnetic kitchen cloth holder was turned... Read more


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