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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

Cargotec signs 20 million euro load handling solution orders to China

Tuesday, 22 June, 2010
Cargotec has received new orders worth approximately 20 million euro for the delivery of MacGregor bulk handling cranes and hatch covers. The equipment for the first order will be delivered for seventeen 37 000 dwt bulk carriers. The vessels will be built at the Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. shipyard in China. Each of the 37,000 dwt... Read more

Finland in the spotlight on the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

Monday, 21 June, 2010
According to the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE there is a tight competition between countries seeking to be in the spotlight at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Each country can only be chosen once. Finland has been propelling the project already for three years. The total budget of the project is estimated to be about four million euros in... Read more

Tieto invests on the Russian market

Monday, 21 June, 2010
Finnish IT service company Tieto continues growing in Russia. The company has announced that it will deliver data centre services to Moscow, and establish a Centre of Excellence for Oil and Gas in the country. The Energy Components Center of Excellence is intended to bring the company’s Energy Components production management system closer to... Read more

New laser sensing technique optimizes Baltic Sea research

Monday, 21 June, 2010
New, fast and effective imaging technique that may revolutionise for instance research of the Baltic Sea has been developed. The method, which was developed as part of the ULTRA project led by by Metsähallitus Natural Heritage Services, is based on LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) laser sensing technique utilised in aerial surveying. In... Read more

Limowa signs a logistics partnership network agreement in Sverdlovski, Russia

Friday, 18 June, 2010
Finnish logistics cluster’s partnership network Limowa has agreed on extensive cooperation with logistics-related development projects in the Sverdlovski region of Russia. The partnership protocol was signed together with the Russian Ural Logistics Association.   – The infrastructural needs connected to the Russian economy open significant... Read more

Outokumpu steel reinforces the structure of a Thai temple

Thursday, 17 June, 2010
A Buddhist temple being built in the Chounbri province of Thailand will lay its concrete foundation with lean duplex reinforcement bars manufactured by the Finnish stainless steel company Outokumpu. The aim of the developers is to build a temple with as long a lifetime as possible. The local community has wished for a temple, which would serve... Read more

The World Bank welcomed Wärtsilä to advance natural gas utilization

Thursday, 17 June, 2010
The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) partnership has welcomed Wärtsilä as the first associated partner to join the global effort to reduce the flaring or burning of natural gases associated with oil production. The aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the utilization of natural gas, which is released as oil... Read more

Finnish film wins in New York

Wednesday, 16 June, 2010
Finnish film 'On Thin Ice' (Kukkulan kuningas) has won an award for the Best Screenplay at the Brooklyn International Film Festival in New York. The festival took place from June 4-13th. Directed by Alli Haapasalo, On Thin Ice is a story of two men who meet on Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is on duty, when he picks up a... Read more

Pöyry acquires Hungarian nuclear power engineering company ETV

Wednesday, 16 June, 2010
Pöyry has acquired Hungary's largest privately owned power sector consulting and engineering company ETV-Eröterv. ETV's product range comprises nuclear and conventional power plant engineering, services for radioactive waste related projects as well as full scale designing services in the area of transmission and distribution. The company's... Read more

Mari Kiviniemi – Finland’s new Prime Minister

Tuesday, 15 June, 2010
Minister of Public Administration and Local Government Mari Kiviniemi has been elected as the chairwoman of Finland's biggest political party, the Centre party of Finland. Practically speaking, the election means that from this week until the 2011 parliamentary elections Kiviniemi will also serve as the Prime Minister of Finland. Kiviniemi is... Read more


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