Valmet Oyj is a Finnish company that is a developer and supplier of technologies, automation systems, and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.
UPM-Kymmene Oyj is a Finnish forest industry company. UPM-Kymmene was formed by the merger of Kymmene Corporation with Repola Oy and its subsidiary United Paper Mills Ltd in 1996. UPM consists of six business areas: UPM Fibres, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers and UPM Plywood. The Group employs around 17,000 people and it has production plants in 12 countries. UPM shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange. UPM is the only paper company which is listed in the global Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the only forest industry company invited to the United Nations Global Compact LEAD sustainability leadership platform.
Posti Group Oyj, trading internationally as Posti Group Corporation, is the main Finnish postal service delivering mail and parcels in Finland. The State of Finland is the sole shareholder of the company. Posti has a universal service obligation that entails weekday deliveries of letters in all of Finland's municipalities. Posti's head office is located in Pohjois-Pasila in Helsinki. Posti's history spans nearly 400 years.
Tietoevry Oyj, Tietoevry Corporation, is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services. Tietoevry is domiciled in Espoo, Finland, and the company's shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and Oslo Stock Exchange. Tietoevry has approximately 24,000 employees across 20 countries, and has customers in the energy, forestry, banking, and healthcare sectors.
Neste Oyj is an oil refining and marketing company located in Espoo, Finland. It produces, refines and markets oil products, provides engineering services, and licenses production technologies. Neste has operations in 14 countries.
Pohjolan Voima Oy is the second biggest Finnish energy company, which owns hydropower and thermal power plants.
Huhtamäki Oyj is a Finnish consumer packaging company whose production includes food packaging, disposable containers, as well as egg cartons and fruit packaging for quick service restaurants, coffee shops, retail stores, caterers and vending operators. It operates globally and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
KWH Group Ltd is a Finnish family-owned company based in Ostrobothnia that manufactures and markets abrasives and plastic products and provides forwarding and logistics services, including cold storage of food. The company was formed in 1984 when Oy Keppo Ab, founded by Emil Höglund, bought the shares of Oy Wiik & Höglund Ab, founded by Höglund and Edvin Wiik.
Renewable energy in Finland grew to 38.7% of total final energy consumption by year end 2014, achieving joint second position with Latvia in terms of renewable energy consumption by share amongst the EU-28 countries, behind its neighbour Sweden in first position on a 52.6% share. The 2014 share in Finland breaks down as renewable energy providing 52% of the heating and cooling sector, 31.4% of the electricity sector and 21.6% of the transport sector. By 2014, Finland had already exceeded its 2020 target for renewable energy use under the EU renewable energy directive as shown in the table of country targets.
Business Finland is a public organization under the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy. It was established on 1 January 2018, with the goal of attracting trade, tourism and foreign investment to Finland as well as providing funds for innovation. And as such, Business Finland is also involved in funding Finnish space researches, under the New Space Economy program, as well as startup companies, under Young Innovative Company funding program among other projects. The organization is made up of two entities: Innovaatiorahoituskeskus Business Finland and Business Finland Oy.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is a state-owned and controlled non-profit limited liability company. VTT is the largest research and technology company and research centre conducting applied research in Finland. It provides research and innovation services and information for domestic and international customers and partners, both in private and public sectors.
Energy in Finland describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Finland. Energy policy of Finland describes the politics of Finland related to energy. Electricity sector in Finland is the main article of electricity in Finland.
St1 Oy is a Finnish energy company owning the St1 service stations' chain in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Poland. The company was established in 1995 under the name Greenergy Baltic Oy. In 1997, the St1 chain was established in Finland. In 2000 Greenergy Baltic changed its name to Green. In the same year, it purchased the St1 chain. The company adopted the name St1 in 2005.
Helen Oy, stylized as HELEN, formerly known as Helsingin Energia (Finnish) and Helsingfors Energi (Swedish), is one of the largest energy companies in Finland. The company, founded in 1909 produces and sells electricity, district heating and district cooling.
Fennovoima Ltd is a nuclear power company established by Russian state's nuclear company Rosatom and a consortium of Finnish state-owned power and industrial companies.
Finland is one of the last countries in the world still burning peat. Peat has high global warming emissions and high environmental concerns. It may be compared to brown coal (lignite) or worse than this lowest rank of coal. Peat is the most harmful energy source for global warming in Finland. According to IEA the Finnish subsidies for peat in 2007-2010 undermined the goal to reduce CO
2 emissions and counteracted other environmental policies and The European Union emissions trading scheme.
Caverion is a Finnish listed company that designs, implements, and maintains building technology and industrial services. Its offering covers the entire life cycle of buildings, infrastructure, or industrial sites and processes: from design and build to projects, technical and industrial maintenance, facility management, and advisory services. The company has two business units: Services and Projects and has about 14,500 employees in 10 countries. Its shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.
Finnfund, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd is a Finnish development financier and impact investor, that offers long-term investment loans and venture capital to private companies for projects in developing countries. Finnfund’s statutory duty is to promote economic and social development in developing countries.
