Success Cases
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DesinFix™ -chlorine-free disinfection of effluent waste water
DesinFix is a complete disinfection technology including chemicals, equipment and related services. DesinFix is based on a mixture of formic acid and hydrogen peroxide, which when accurately mixed forms a highly efficient biocide, DEX-135™. The technology is developed by Kemira –for your environment.
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Ehovoc’s solution lowers emissions treatment costs to one-tenth
Oulu-based Ehovoc manufactures, markets and sells the world’s most energy-efficient catalytic oxidizers for treating industrial emissions. At a Rettig Lämpö Ltd factory in Pietarsaari, Finland, treatment costs dropped from one-thousand to below one-hundred euros per day, thanks to Ehovoc’s technology.
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St1 Biofuels turns waste into biofuel in an environmentally friendly way
St1 Biofuels, a subsidiary of St1 Oy operating in traffic fuel distribution and energy sector, develops and commercializes sustainable low-carbon dioxide solutions for traffic fuels. Bio-waste that used to be composted for soil by Kiertokapula Oy will soon turn into biofuel in cooperation with St1 Biofuels.
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Vaisala's research on desertification processes
The world's population is expected to exceed 86 hundred million by 2030. At a time when the population is growing rapidly and a food crisis is feared, agricultural areas are, in contrast, decreasing. Desertification is one of the most serious problems we are facing on Earth today. It results from both climate variations and human activities.
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High-tech modeling contributes to more sustainable mining machines
Mining and the subsequent metals and minerals processing is an energy-intensive process. As part of improving sustainability, the mining industry is continuously looking for new ways to enhance energy and extraction efficiency, and thereby to reduce the carbon footprint of equipment. Metso supports its mining industry customers by offering solutions for new and existing operations.
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Hiab solution provide better waste management and savings of 30-50%
The results of a waste management pilot project in Nanjing, a city of one million in China, are encouraging. A solution designed by the Hiab business area of the Finnish company Cargotec clearly cuts costs and reduces the burden on the environment.
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Proventia’s CHILI filter for small diesel machines cuts emissions to the minimum
Proventia works for clean air by developing and supplying solutions to reduce emissions from machines, vehicles, power plants and ships. For light-duty off-road machines like forklifts, mini excavators and street sweepers, Proventia now offers a brand-new CHILI filter.
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Hazardous waste recycled without harming the environment by AkkuSer Ltd
AkkuSer Ltd specializes in recycling hazardous batteries in a totally environmental way. With AkkuSer’s unique technology it is possible to process and restore batteries for reuse without harming the environment.
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GreenStream Network - a leading European specialist in renewable and carbon markets
GreenStream Network is a leading Northern European actor in the carbon and renewable energy markets, with offices across Europe and in China.
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Kenno Tech sandwich structure increased an elevator's capacity by a ton
Laser welded sandwich structures enable savings of up to 50 percent in steel. The floor elements designed by Kenno Tech allowed Kone Plc to increase the capacity of a vehicle elevator from four to five tons and to double the elevator speed at a four ton load.
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Ekokem Oy Ab uses Gasmet™ CEM systems
Gasmet Technologies is a leading supplier of gas monitoring systems for demanding industrial and environmental applications. Majority of these systems are used for continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) in power plants, incineration plants and cement kilns. All Gasmet™ gas monitoring systems are reliable, user-friendly and provide consistently accurate results.
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Eagle’s Magnum high efficiency air filter, a key factor by cutting recoverable losses in power industry
Power plant operators around the world are taking more interest in how they can improve GT efficiency, reliability and decrease CO2 emissions, through improved air intake filtration.
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Revolutionary high-speed compressor run by Vacon AC drive
Compressed air is an essential utility in many processes and manufacturing operations. However, generating the high volumes of air required can have a significant environmental impact. Since energy costs account for 80-90 % of a compressor’s total cost over its lifetime, energy consumption is a real focus for product development. In close collaboration with CompAir, Vacon has been instrumental in the development of Quantima, a revolution in oil-free centrifugal compressor design.
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Efficient solution exploits waste
Biovakka produces biogas and recycled nutrients from organic raw materials, such as manure from farms, wet sludge from the food industry and biowaste from the retail trade and municipalities.
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Outotec's customer company Yanggu Xiangguang Copper receives the highest environmental award from the Chinese government
Outotec's customer company Yanggu Xiangguang Copper receives the reputable Chinese environmental award. Thanks to Outotec's environmentally friendly technology, the copper plant will meet even the strictest environmental requirements not only now but for years to come.
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Crude vegetable oils, chicken, fish and industrial process side streams. All can be fuel sources.
Wärtsilä began testing crude vegetable oils as early as 1995. The first commercial power plant running on palm oil was taken into operation in 2003. Now, we have delivered the world’s first engine-driven combined heat and power (CHP) plant to be fuelled by a variety of liquid bio-fuels, such as oil extracted from the seeds of the jatropha plant.
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Wärtsilä
In Azerbaijan the country’s complete electricity system was decentralized using Wärtsilä technology.
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Metgen
MetGen is offering custom development of higher performance specialty enzymes for cleantech industry. We focus on accelerating discovery or/and improving target proteins properties. Our services vary from site specific mutagenesis design, combinatorial DNA libraries construction to library screening and recombinant enzyme assay with substrate of choice. MetGen is building the range of the enzymes to solve critical energy efficiency issues that address needs in two key markets: industrial processes and biofuels.
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Doranova - Turning an environmental problem into energy production
Methane emissions from landfills and leachate water from waste pose a major threat to the environment. The system supplied by Doranova Oy has enabled the Rosk’n Roll Ltd landfill in Lohja to turn the expense of handling the problems into energy production, with enough left over to sell.
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Ensto is building electric car infrastructure in Norway
Norway has an ambitious goal to have all public-sector cars CO2 free by 2020. Ensto will play a big part in the shift to more sustainable transportation by providing the charging infrastructure for electric cars. The project started in 2010 with the provision of hundreds of charging posts for the city of Oslo.
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Halton’s solutions really make the difference – IKEA, Australia: Green Project of the Year 2008
An innovative approach to the air conditioning of the 30,000m2 IKEA outlet in Australia reduced both energy consumption and costs by 50 percent compared with traditional systems. Halton made a considerable contribution to this achievement by supplying passive chilled beams for this project.
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Corrosion in the splash zone is a potentially serious problem for any marine structure
Periodic maintenance of the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge, which was constructed in 1994, revealed sever deterioration of the protective coating. The bridge engineering consultants recommended a splash zone retrofit protection system. Several techniques were evaluated. The decision to use Corrosion Control Retrowrap STD was based on its proven long term performance and total installed cost.
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Tana’s shredder treatment doubled the value of recycled material
A Finnish company specializing in the treatment of reusable solid waste was looking for a shredder that could shred most waste fractions ad especially tough materials like undersea cables. The Tana Shark was able to shred the cables that none of the previous technologies could. The value of the material was more than doubled and the machine paid for itself within the first three months of operation.
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Stalatube - Better end products and more efficient production
The Australian company Noosa Cat was looking for a better material solution for its catamaran trailers. The cost savings, longer durability, and simplified manufacturing process of Stalatubes stainless steel hollow sections were the main reasons behind their choice.
