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Every fourth programming company to hire new workforce

Companies within the programming industry have a much more optimistic outlook into their future than other small and medium businesses in Finland. One fourth of all companies in the programming industry are planning to recruit more workforce within next year. Only one company out of a hundred considered there to be a need for reducing... Read more

Real estate service sector has employed thousands in 2009

Finnish real estate service sector has hired approximately 3000 new employees during the first quarter of 2009. The figures were revealed by a research carried out by Kiinteistöpalvelut ry, a member organization of the European Federation of Cleaning Industry EFCI. Companies offering cleaning, property maintenance and security and technical... Read more

Paulig builds a new coffee roastery in Russia

Gustav Paulig Ltd. has made a decision to build a new coffee roastery in Tver, Russia. The implementation of the project was postponed last autumn due to the uncertain economic conditions in Russia. The plans for the implementation of the project are complete and the transaction for buying the required plot of land has been effected. The... Read more

Aava Books receives silver in IPPY Awards

The Finnish publishing company Aava Books Co. has won silver in the IPPY - Independent Publisher Awards with its book Attachments. The book, which was written in English took part in the competition within the category photography books/most original concept. Attachments is the creation of the New Yorker gallerist and photographer Anne-Marie... Read more

‘Hot in the City’ introduces a new way of creating social networks

VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, has developed a new networking method using NFC technology. The new ‘Hot in the City’-solution allows its users to create friendship networks by the touch of a NFC-phone. Several patents have been applied for the knowhow of the application and it is accessible for instance via Facebook. NFC... Read more

The first Helsinki Global Chemicals Forum

Helsinki will receive an audience of chemistry specialists, who gather in Helsinki Conference Centre on 27th-29th of May.   For the first time academic researchers, politicians, non-governmental bodies, human interest groups and representatives of industries get together in Helsinki to discuss global environmental challenges and the role of... Read more

Iron Sky targets international film markets

Iron Sky is the forthcoming science fiction movie by the Tampere-based production company Energia. Energia became famous in 2005 by ’Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning’ - sci-fi parody, which was realized by a group of amateurs. Star Wreck has been a great success and it has been donwloaded online nearly 9 million times. Iron Sky portrays runaway... Read more

Kone receives a major order from China

Kone was chosen to supply escalators for China’s national high-speed railway project. The project is known as the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway and once completed it will link two major economic zones in China in approximately five hours. The project began in April 2008 and is being undertaken by China’s Ministry of Railways. Once... Read more

Cinemas started the year with excellent visitor numbers

Cinema chain Finnkino has started the new year with excellent visitor numbers. Finnkino cinemas have attracted over 1,8 million visitors from January to April 2009, which means that it has been Finnkino’s best period ever. There was a 15 per cent growth in visitor numbers and nearly 240 000 more cinema viewings than at the same point in time... Read more

Finnish invention scares geese away in Canada

The Finnish innovation, a falcon bird repeller scares away disruptive bird flocks all the way in America. The genuine looking plastic falcon which swings in the air in between a long pole and a cable wire drives unwanted birds off very effectively. The plastic falcon has been designed by Antero Mäkilaakso from Espoo. Kari Wilander, the Finnish... Read more