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Fennia Prize
The Fennia Prize is a Finnish design award. The purpose of the Fennia Prize is to present well-designed products and to encourage firms and companies to apply design in a comprehensive and interactive manner in product development, manufacturing and the corporate image. The prize has been awarded since 2003. The Fennia Prize is awarded as a part of the Fennia Prize – Good design grows global competition. The prize is awarded every second year to a firm or company. In the competition, there are two series: Product Design Series and Open Series, including, for example, business and service concepts and environments. The prize-winning products are presented to the public at the Fennia Prize exhibition. Design Forum Finland Design Forum Finland is the promotion organization of Finnish design. It is maintained by the Finnish Society of Crafts and Design, which was founded in 1875. The aim of Design Forum Finland is to promote Finnish design both nationally and interna ... and the Fen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Design Forum Finland
Design Forum Finland is the promotion organization of Finnish design. It is maintained by the Finnish Society of Crafts and Design, which was founded in 1875. The aim of Design Forum Finland is to promote Finnish design both nationally and internationally and to encourage business life to utilize the opportunities of design. Among other things Design Forum Finland awards prizes, reports about current issues in the design field of Finland and organizes competitions and exhibitions. Prizes and competitions Kaj Franck Design PrizeFennia Prize - Good design grows global competition The Young Designer of the Year PrizeEstlander Prize See also * Scandinavian design Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sw ... References External links ICSIDNetwork for Cultural Export"Souvenirs of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metso
Metso Oyj was a Finnish industrial machinery company focusing on providing technology and services for mining, aggregates, and oil and gas, recycling, pulp and paper and other process industries. On 30 June 2020, Metso's partial demerger and combination of Metso Minerals business unit and Outotec took place. Two new companies started operations 1 July 2020: Neles and Metso Outotec. History Metso was created through the merger of Valmet and in 1999. In 2013, Metso demerged into two separate companies: Metso Corporation and Valmet Corporation. 1990s Metso was created on 1 July 1999 through the merger of Valmet, a paper and board machine supplier, and Rauma, which focused on fiber technology, rock crushing and flow control solutions. In 1998 Rauma's businesses included: * Timberjack forest machines * Sunds Defibrator fiber technology equipment * Nordberg rock crushers * Neles Controls valve-control systems The new company had overlapping operations and to some extent the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konecranes
Konecranes Oyj (KCI Konecranes prior to 16 March 2007) is a Finland, Finnish company, headquartered in Hyvinkää, which specialises in the manufacture and service of crane (machine), cranes and lifting equipment as well as the service of machine tools. The firm produces about one in ten of the world's cranes, of which around 80% are for use in factory, factories, the rest at ports. The company was initially a division of KONE, who began to manufacture cranes and hoist (device), hoists in the 1930s, but was spun off as an independent company in 1994 when KONE underwent extensive restructuring. The firm listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange two years later and has since grown to become a constituent member of the benchmark OMX Helsinki 25 index. Konecranes is arranged into two business divisions - Equipment and Service (covering crane Maintenance, repair and operations, maintenance, safety and machine tool service). References External links * {{OMX Helsinki 25 companies Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The Helsinki urban area, city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the List of urban areas in Finland by population, most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has History of Helsinki, close historical ties with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen (and surrounding commuter towns, including the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingrid
Fingrid Oyj is a Finnish national electricity transmission grid operator. It is owned by the Finnish state (53.1 %) and various financial and insurance institutions (46.9 %). In 2011, power companies Fortum Power and Heat Oy and Pohjolan Voima sold their stakes in Fingrid (25% each), because of EU Internal Market Directive in Electricity, which requires that power production and ownership of the transmission systems should be separate. CEO of the company is Jukka Ruusunen. The transmission from and to the Russian network was interrupted by the Russian side on May 13, 2022. See also *Energy in Finland *European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators, represents 39 electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) from 35 countries across Europe, thus extending beyond EU borders. ENTSO-E was established and given legal mandates b ... (ENTSO-E) References External links * Companies based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä Oyj Abp (), trading internationally as Wärtsilä Corporation, is a Finnish company which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets. The core products of Wärtsilä include technologies for the energy sector, including gas, multi-fuel, liquid fuel and biofuel power plants and energy storage systems; and technologies for the marine sector, including cruise ships, ferries, fishing vessels, merchant ships, navy ships, special vessels, tugs, yachts and offshore vessels. Ship design capabilities include ferries, tugs, and vessels for the fishing, merchant, offshore and special segments. Services offerings include online services, underwater services, turbocharger services, and also services for the marine, energy, and oil and gas markets. At the end of June 2018, the company employed more than 19,000 workers. Wärtsilä has two main businesses; Energy Business focusing on the energy market, and Marine Business focusing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RePack
RePack is a packaging service which enables the return and reuse of delivery packaging for online retailers and their users. The service and packaging is designed by Original RePack Oy, a Finnish company focused on sustainable products and business model solutions. Business On supported e-commerce sites, the customer can select to use RePack as the online order's delivery packaging. The customer will then receive the goods in RePack's recyclable packaging. This packaging can be returned to RePack by dropping it into a local letterbox. The return rate of RePack's products has reached 95%. RePack is used by over 200 online retailers in Europe and the US. Awards In October 2013, RePack was awarded the Pactec 2013 innovation prize by the Finnish packaging association. In January 2014, RePack was awarded the Fennia Prize. In September 2014, RePack won the Green Alley startup competition in Germany. In November 2014, RePack finished fourth in Slush 100's pitching competition fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa.HS: Nokian juuret ovat Tammerkosken rannalla (in Finnish) In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalo Helsinki (born 1989), Aramean-Dutch footballer
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Jalo may refer to: * Jalo oasis in Libya * Jalu, a city in the oasis * Jalo (name), a Finnish given name and surname (including a list of people with the name) * Álvaro Jaló (born 1992), Portuguese footballer * Daniel Fernandes Jaló (born 1994), Guinea-Bissauan footballer See also * Jaloo, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a village in Pakistan * Jalo Bhati, a village in Punjab, India * Jallo Park, in Punjab, Pakistan * Gaby Jallo Gaby may refer to: People Gaby is short for Gabrielle, Gabriella or Gabriel, and in particular may refer to: *Gaby (singer) (born 1965), Panamanian Reggae en Español and Reggaeton singer and rapper *Gaby, a Spanish clown, one of Los Payasos de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponsse
Ponsse Plc ( fi, Ponsse Oyj) is a company domiciled in Vieremä, Finland, a forest machine manufacturer run by the Vidgrén family. Ponsse manufactures, sells and maintains cut-to-length forest machines such as forwarders and harvesters and also builds their information systems. Harvesters operate digitally: for example, production data is reported daily to the client. Ponsse is one of the world’s largest forest machine manufacturers. It is the market leader in Finland: more than 40 per cent of all forest machines in Finland are made by Ponsse. All machines are manufactured in the company’s birthplace in Vieremä. Ponsse Group employs about 1,800 people in 10 countries, and the company’s shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic List. History 1970s – The early years In 1969, forest machine entrepreneur Einari Vidgrén was working at Tehdaspuu Oy’s logging site, where he built a forest machine from a wheel loader’s components. The forwarder was named PONSSE Paz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
