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Helsinki-Vantaa Airport opens a brand new terminal

The first section of the new terminal extension at the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport was opened for passengers last week. The extension serves primarily the long-distance traffic at the airport. In addition to the new waiting areas for long-distance passengers, the extension introduces new passenger gates. The service area of the extension will... Read more

VTT develops new cancer drugs

The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany have signed a two-year research cooperation contract for developing new cancer drugs. The new project is a continuation of similar cooperation, which ended last year. In the research, VTT will utilise newly developed 3D cancer cell culturing model that enables... Read more

Finnish researchers discover a promising nerve growth factor for treatment of Parkinson's disease

Finnish researchers have found a nerve growth factor, which improves the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Certain nerve growth factors can be used to prevent the advancement of damage caused by neurotoxins. It can also be used for restoring functionality of damaged cells. The neuroscience research programme of the Academy of Finland has... Read more

Joyride Games strives to bring ClimbStation to international markets

Joyride Games Oy, a company established in 2004 in Vantaa, has finally brought its prototype climbing wall into the market. The company, which survived the product's research and development phase with assistance for instance from the National Technology Agency Tekes, is now looking for a long term investor for ClimbStation. One of the... Read more

Amroy glues wind turbines with pine resin

Lahti-based Amroy Europe Oy is in the process of developing natural epoxy which will be suitable for glueing the vanes of wind turbines. The resin derived from pine oil may be suitable for replacing the petrochemical based epoxies, which have been used for the purpose so far. The resin will be used for glueing the glass and carbon fibre parts... Read more

A collective labour agreement in Technology industry helps the Finnish economy to recover

Confederation of Finnish Industries, EK, considers the results of the negotiation on the collective labour agreement between the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, and the Metalworkers' Union as an important initiative during current economic conditions. The negotiations were finalized on Thursday. The Confederation states that what... Read more

Bio-technology sector grows in Oulu

The British bio-technology specialist, ValiRx expands its operations to Finland. The company will start off by employing about five specialists in the field. The main focus of ValiRx Finland Plc is in new technologies which benefit cancer care. The bio-technology sector is growing in Oulu where there are already nearly 50 companies utilizing... Read more

Lapland’s gold rush brings revenue to Inari

Prospecting of gold has a great significance to the municipality of Inari. Gold miners coming into the area from elsewhere guarantee a million Euro revenue to Inari every year. According to a research carried out by the University of Oulu gold miners spend weekly about 50 Euros only for groceries during the mining season. Money spent on... Read more

Port of Hamina to have Panamax-class channel

The sea channel leading into the Port of Hamina will be realigned and dredged to 12 metre immersion. The implementation of the channel project is carried out by the Finnish Maritime Administration while the dock works are commissioned by Port of Hamina Ltd. Deepening of the channel is particularly important for the operation of Hamina oil... Read more

Leading cancer researchers meet at Turku BioCity Symposium at the end of August

BioCity Symposium, which is held in Turku at the end of August, brings together the top of the world's cancer research now for the 19th time. This year's Symposium's theme is Tumor Microenvironment in Cancer Progression. The event is organized by the University of Turku and the Foundation for the Finnish Cancer Institute. The keynote speaker... Read more