Cleantech Finland^®

Cleantech means all products, services, processes and technologies which prevent or reduce impacts of harmful actions on the environment. Cleantech stands for better quality, efficiency, progress, effectiveness, profitability and excitement. Cleantech Finland is a guarantee of cutting edge technologies and services as well as reliable and efficient business practices. Cleantech Finland unites the top Finnish cleantech companies and experts.

Finnish cleantech companies are characterized by their agility and reliability. Technological solutions developed in extreme natural conditions, understanding of clean technologies and their demand and long experience are also defining features for them. Finnish experts are agile operators in solutions and projects. A good example of true agility is Finland’s ability to combine the private and public sector players to respond to customer demands. Even though Finland may not be the biggest player in the market Finnish cleantech companies are already at the top of the world in several key cleantech sectors. For instance bioenergy, clean industrial processes and energy efficiency experts are the top of class.

Finland has vast expertise of challenging conditions, backed up by the fact that Finland has limited natural resources and an extremely challenging climate. Still Finland has coupled economic growth with sustainable development. This is the know-how that Cleantech Finland wants to offer to you. (Cleantech Finland homepage)

The Fine particle Forum is an independent and neutral network of actors in the Finnish nano- and fine particle sector. It was established in 2006 as a natural follow-up forum for Fine - the fine particle technical research and development program financed by Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation). The Fine particle Forum today has more than 60 corporate, academic and organisational members. (Fine Particle Forum homepage)

Beneq Marketing Manager Joe Pimenoff is a member of the Representative Council of the Fine particle Forum.

Glass Global provides the international glass industry with a platform of high quality information and services available world wide - 24 hours a day. Starting in 2000, www.glassglobal.com has manifested its position as leading international e-commerce portal website for the glass industry. Our monthly statistics continuously show about 340,000 different visitors per month and far over 1,500,000 page impressions. Glassglobal with its network e.g. glassmachines.com, glassindex.com, glassjobs-online.com or also glass-news.com proves to be the most important portal website providing information about glass industry and trade throughout the world in a polyglot and concise company directory focussing on this field, giving detailed company information from raw materials suppliers up to the finished product traders. (Glass Global homepage)

HighTech Finland profiles a broad cross-section of the exciting work being done by Finnish companies and researchers – in areas ranging from mobile communications and sustainable energy to environmental technologies, new types of health care, advanced industrial processes and materials, and more.

The HighTech Finland Team produces a print edition of HighTech Finland every year, and maintains its Web site, which features the content of the latest edition, as well as previous editions, together with a news section. We work closely with a wide range of organisations and companies – and our partners at Tekes, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Finpro – to help keep you up-to-date with Finland’s most interesting innovations. (HighTech Finland homepage)

The Licensing Executives Society (LES) was founded in the USA in 1965 by a group of licensing professionals. LES is a world-wide non-profit association of licensing professionals with the aim of helping its members gain knowledge, acquire skills and make contacts with their counterparts around the world. LES provides a unique opportunity for alert companies to make new contacts and exchange ideas, thus providing a basis for successful technology transfers and licensing of industrial and intellectual property rights. LES International is the parent organisation which co-ordinates and supervises the activities of the national societies. each local association is an independent unit that organises activities within its own area.

LES Scandinavia

LES Scandinavia, formed in 1970, is a regional society which covers all five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The members of LES Scandinavia are lawyers, scientists, engineers, patent attorneys, licensing consultants, company executives and academics from companies large and small, public bodies and universities. (LES Scandinavia homepage)

The Nanotechnology Industries Association, NIA, was formed in 2005 by a group of companies from a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare, chemicals, automotive, materials processing, and consumer products. In September 2008, the NIA opened its office in Brussels; globally the only industry-focused trade association in nanotechnology, the NIA provides a uniquely consolidates perspective derived from a highly multi-disciplinary membership, which operates across a wide range of markets and industrial sectors.

The NIA membership is made up of many varied companies, all of which at different stages of their life cycle and with a variety of interests in the huge range of technologies that derive their benefit from the nanoscale. In the NIA, these companies have a representative association to create a clear single 'voice' on behalf of the industries’ views, to interface with governments, to be a source for consultation on regulation and standards, to engage with the public, to communicate the benefits of nanotechnologies, to interact with the media, and to inform the debate on nanotechnology. (NIA homepage)

The Organic Electronics Association is the information and communication platform for companies and research institutes active in this emerging technology. Our Vision is to build a bridge between science, technology and application.

The OE-A represents the entire value chain in organic andprinted electronics. Our members are leading international companies and institutions:

• component & material suppliers
• end-users
• equipment & tool suppliers
• R & D institutes
• producers / system integrators

More than 120 members from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia work together to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic and printed electronics. The OE-A is an integral part of the VDMA division “Innovative Business” which expands the activities of the VDMA in the field of new technologies such as productronics, micro technologies and flat panel displays. (oe-a homepage)