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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

Ruukki supplies steel structures for Aker Verdal wind farm project

Monday, 05 July, 2010
Finnish specialist in metal products, systems and services, Ruukki has agreed with the Norwegian company Aker Verdal AS on the delivery of steel structures for the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm project to be built off the German North Sea coast. Steel structure deliveries for offshore wind farm foundations broadens Ruukki's solutions for the... Read more

Pöyry acquires nuclear energy platform NUMEX

Monday, 05 July, 2010
Pöyry expands its services within the nuclear energy sector by acquiring the entire share capital of Brennus Ingénieurs Conseils SA. The acquisition makes Pöyry responsible for NUMEX, Europe's leading platform for operators of nuclear power plants (NPP), which is a facilitator of exchange of NPP-related maintenance experience and acts as a... Read more

Rautakesko opened OMA department store in Minsk

Friday, 02 July, 2010
Rautakesko, a leading provider of building and home improvement products in the Nordic and Baltic countries, has opened a department store in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus. The store will be operated by OMA, a subsidiary of Rautakesko's Lithuanian subsidiary Senukai. The new store, located on Napoleana Ordi street in Minsk, is a versatile... Read more

Aalto University students design a new look for Blue1 planes

Thursday, 01 July, 2010
The Aalto University School of Art and Design and Blue1 Airlines have entered into a partnership for the design of the outward appearance of the company's new airplane models, starting in autumn 2010. Students from the Degree Programme in Graphic Design and Illustration taking a Business Image Design course came up with ideas for the new... Read more

Finland is the world’s fourth most developed digital economy

Thursday, 01 July, 2010
Finland ranked fourth at the Digital Economy Rankings 2010 carried out by The Economist and IBM. The generalization and development of e-services in the country helped Finland to reach the top of the list. Digital Economy Rankings research compared the utilisation of electronic communications and information technology in seventy countries.... Read more

VTT brings a new innovation tool to the software market

Wednesday, 30 June, 2010
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a body of knowledge for software companies. The purpose of the Software Innovation Body of Knowledge, or SinnoBoK is to speed up the emergence of new business models. SinnoBoK is based on research that VTT has carried out on the birth of innovations in the software sector. The research... Read more

Finnish companies take part in a major science project

Wednesday, 30 June, 2010
Five Finnish companies take part in developing technology for a future particle collider. The new collider is being designed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN. The decision about the collider's building will be made in the next five years. The Finnish coordinator for CERN-cooperation is the Helsinki Institute of Physics,... Read more

Wärtsilä alleviates Bangladesh’s energy crisis

Tuesday, 29 June, 2010
Wärtsilä, a global supplier of decentralised power plant solutions, has received equipment orders for two new power plants in Bangladesh. These two new power plants will add significant generating capacity to the country's national grid. The total value of the two contracts is approximately 68 million euro. Summit Naryanganj Power Co. Ltd has... Read more

Finnish architecture mesmerizes in Norway

Tuesday, 29 June, 2010
Kilden Performing Arts Centre, designed by the Helsinki-based architecture firm ALA has reached its ridge height in the City of Kristiansand, Norway. The building, which is expected to be completed in a year's time, is considered to be Norway's most important cultural building project after the Oslo Opera House. ALA describes its architecture... Read more

Pöyry engineers a pumped storage plant project in Austria

Monday, 28 June, 2010
Pöyry has been awarded contracts by VERBUND-Austria Hydro Power AG both for the provision of engineering services and for site supervision during the construction period of Reißeck II pumped storage plant. The total value of the two contracts is approximately 9.2 million euro. Pöyry's engineering services comprise the project's execution... Read more


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