HELSINKI, 24-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — YIT has signed a contract with Hollister Incorporated, a US-based medical products manufacturing company, to construct the second stage of a medical device factory in Kaunas, Lithuania. The value of the deal for YIT is approximately EUR 25 million … Read the full press release
Posted in Construction, Finland, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Lithuania
Tagged construction, Hollister Incorporated, Kaunas, Lithuania, medical device factory, YIT
HELSINKI, 24-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Kalmar, part of Cargotec, and Yara have entered into an agreement in which Kalmar will deliver fully autonomous equipment, software and services for a unique, fully digitalised container handling solution at Yara’s Porsgrunn facility in … Read the full press release
The Škoda Transportation Group became the 100% owner of the only Scandinavian manufacturer of rolling stock in Finland, the Transtech company. The majority stake in Transtech was purchased by Škoda in August 2015. The agreement to buy the remaining 25 … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Czech Republic, Finland, Investment, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged Petr Brzezina, rolling stock, Sinituote Oy, Škoda Transportation, trams, Transtech, Zdeněk Majer
Vantaa, Finland, 22-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Assuruá Energia Solar PV power plant started to generate energy in the first quarter of 2018. Located in the city of Itaguaçu da Bahia (Bahia), the plant has an installed capacity of 30 Mwac. Pöyry … Read the full press release
BRUSSELS/ THE HAGUE, 17-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The winners of the 2018 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were announced today by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Awards, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Society, Spain, Turkey
Tagged 2018 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Europa Nostra, European Commission, European heritage network, Plácido Domingo, Tibor Navracsics
New agreement with Pan European ice hockey competition has digital activation at heart ZUG, Switzerland, 16-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — iLOQ, the rapidly growing leader in digital access management, and the Champions Hockey League (CHL) have announced a new four-year partnership to help … Read the full press release
ESPOO, 07-May-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Fortum takes a step forward in its Bio2x programme by establishing a joint venture together with Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and Chempolis for building and operating a biorefinery in Assam, India. Fortum will invest to the … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Industrial
Tagged Assam, Biomass, biorefinery, Chempolis, Fortum, Heli Antila, INDIA, Numaligarh Refinery Limited
ESPOO, 20-Apr-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Pittsburg Unified School District (PUSD), a public school district based in Contra Costa County, California, has switched some of its vehicles from operating on petroleum diesel to using Neste MY Renewable Diesel™. Neste MY Renewable Diesel … Read the full press release
HELSINKI, 17-Apr-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Consumers rank Valio as the most sustainable brand in Finland. The dairy and food company received the recognition for the fifth consecutive year in the Nordic’s largest brand study on sustainability. Issues of particular importance to … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Food & Beverage, Society
Tagged brand, dairy, FOOD, Kristiina Kiviharju, sustainability, Valio
HELSINKI, 17-Apr-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Valio has over 110 years of experience in dairy innovations and is a true pioneer in lactose free products. Today, Valio is bringing selected products from its globally largest lactose free –sin lactosa– portfolio to the Spanish … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Spain
Tagged Alimentaria, Alimentaria2018, dairy, lactose, lactose free product, protein, protein snacks, snacks, Valio, Valio PROfeel®
Vantaa, Finland, 27-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Commencing on 1 March, Pöyry Deutschland became a member of the German Chapter of the international organisation buildingSMART. With this membership, it allows Pöyry Deutschland to be even more effective in this community and in taking … Read the full press release
Posted in Construction, Finland, Germany, Management
Tagged BIM, BIM standards, building, buildingSMART, Dr. Axel Brommer, Pöyry Deutschland
HELSINKI, 27-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Lineo™ by Stora Enso, a renewable replacement for oil-based phenolic materials, has been awarded ‘Bio-Based Product of the Year’ at the Bio-Based World News Innovation Awards 2018. Shortlisted alongside products from Clean Plus Inc. and … Read the full press release
ESPOO, 21-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Neste has started up the world’s first large-scale renewable propane production facility in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The first cargo of renewable propane has been delivered to SHV Energy, who will market and sell the product … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Finland, Industrial, Netherlands
Tagged BioLPG, LPG, Ms Kaisa Hietala, Neste, Propane, renewable propane, renewable propane production facility, Rotterdam
HELSINKI, 20-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The technology group Wärtsilä is to acquire Transas, a global company headquartered in the U.K. The move will speed Wärtsilä along its path towards its Smart Marine Ecosystem vision. Established in 1990, Transas is a global market leader … Read the full press release
Nokia and Zain Saudi Arabia will work together to provide opportunities for the country’s youth to innovate and develop applications and services for the domestic market MoU to enable promising Saudi talents in the areas of cloud and edge computing … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Ali Al Jitawi, API, Cloud, cloud computing, Eng. Sultan Abdulaziz AlDeghaither, engineers, IT service platforms, MoU, Nokia, Saudi Arabia, Vision2030
NIB and the Norwegian dairy company Tine SA have signed a loan agreement of NOK 400 million (EUR 42 million), with a 12-year maturity, on financing the construction of Tine’s new dairy in Bergen, Norway. In order to save energy, waste … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Banks, Business, Financial, Finland, Food & Beverage, Norway
Tagged Bergen, construction, dairy, loan, NIB, Norway, Tine SA
HELSINKI, 15-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Valio’s unsalted butter won Best of Class at the World Championship Cheese Contest 2018 in Wisconsin, USA, on March 8. There were 30 leading butter brands from around the world participating in the unsalted butter class. … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Finland, Food & Beverage
Tagged Annamari Lammi, Award, Butter, cheese, Cheese Contest, unsalted butter won, Valio, World Championship Cheese Contest 2018
HELSINKI, 14-Mar-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Harald Xperience Ltd. is the first company in Finland to introduce an application with AR aimed to enhance the customer experience in restaurants. The application called EatX allows the customer to visualize the various dishes … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Food & Beverage, Internet & Online, Marketing, News, Retail, Small Business, Technology, Travel
Tagged 3D, 3D presentation, app, AR, AR application, AR technology, augmented reality, dishes in 3D format, EatX, Gastro Helsinki 2018, Harald Xperience, Jaana Kettunen, Kai Lindevall, Magnus Ekström, mixed realities, På Kroken, restaurant menu, restaurants, smartphones, tablets
Nokia demonstrates successful trial of Cloud RAN in Oklahoma City, featuring its Cloud BTS with Verizon’s Virtual Cloud Platform for the operator’s vRAN 1.0 architecture Trial advances joint work between Nokia and Intel to develop Verizon’s vRAN 2.0 architecture to … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 4G, 5G, Bill Stone, Caroline Chan, Cloud, Cloud RAN architectures, Intel, IoT, Marc Rouanne, Nokia, RAN, Verizon
Expanded portfolio of Nokia residential devices and gateways now supports intelligent mesh Wi-Fi capabilities, strengthened by new Unium software New software and analytics provide self-healing, self-learning, self-care functions that optimize Wi-Fi networks and maximize performance Nokia enables service providers and … Read the full press release
Posted in Finland, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom
Tagged connectivity, Federico Guillén, in-home Wi-Fi solution, Networking, Nokia, WiFi, WiFi performance
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