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Enter Espoo is an ambassador for SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025

We are honoured to be appointed as an ambassador for SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025, Asia's largest global innovation conference. Enter Espoo will host an Espoo "city booth" at the event, with key innovation players from Espoo. Stay tuned for more!

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Niittykumpu metro station. Photo: Sari Knuuti

EriCa Green Chemistry Park to Open in Espoo in 2025 as part of Green Line

EriCa Green Chemistry Park is set to open in Espoo in 2025, serving as Finland's hub for green chemistry innovation. EriCa is part of the Green Line competence centre for green chemistry, circular economy, and cleantech.

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Meet Enter Espoo at Web Summit 2024

Enter Espoo is at Web Summit 2024 and offers you access to Europe's leading hubs for quantum technology RDI and green transition. Espoo is among the finalists in the European Capital of Innovation Awards 2024 (iCapital Awards).

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Micro electronics

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VTT opens pilot plant to turn captured carbon dioxide into plastics and chemicals

VTT opened a pilot plant in Espoo, Finland, to turn captured carbon dioxide into materials that can replace fossil fuels in making plastics and chemicals.

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Innovation ecosystem

Niittykumpu metro station in Espoo, Finland with light art in the ceiling and two trains speeding away.

Green Line

Green Line is Finland's leading green transition hub located in Espoo. Green Line brings together international companies, startups, researchers, education institutions, and investors in the fields of chemical, circular economy, and clean technology.

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BioMush's culinary innovation available on Japan Airlines flights — collaboration facilitated by Enter Espoo

BioMush and Japan Airlines have started a collaboration to create a sustainable, one-of-a-kind culinary innovation, a soyless and all-natural Umami Sauce-based yuzu dressing, for Japan Airlines' inflight menu.

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Infinited Fiber Company closes a €40 million development financing round

Infinited Fiber Company, the sustainable fashion tech startup, completed a two-part €40 million development financing round. The new investors include Inditex Group, TTY Management, Youngone, and Goldwin.

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Aalto University and Murata explore new frontiers in nanotechnologies — collaboration facilitated by Enter Espoo

Aalto University and Japan's Murata Manufacturing Company collaborate to find new pathways in material science and fibre processing, focusing on shape-controlled nano-powdering technology of synthetic polymers.

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Marubeni and Nordic Bioproducts Group sign a MoU to collaborate on sustainable biomass utilisation

Marubeni Corporation and Nordic Bioproducts Group Oy (NBG) have signed a MoU. Through the collaboration, the companies aim to establish a biorefinery business utilising NBG's AaltoCellTM technology, focusing on processing woody bioass from Marubeni's plantations in South Sumatra, Indonesia.

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Paptic secured €27.5 million in growth financing in 2023

Paptic Ltd, a high-growth company in wood fibre-based packaging, secured EUR 27.5 million in growth financing in 2023. With a focus on replacing plastic films, Paptic aims to expand in Europe and Asia.

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Meet us at Web Summit 2023

We're at Web Summit 2023 and delighted to offer you easy access to the leading innovation ecosystem in the Nordics and the world-leading deep tech and sustainable solutions that Finland and Espoo offer.

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Espoo Innovation Day showcased world-changing innovations

Espoo Innovation Day gathered Ambassadors of foreign states in Finland and their representatives of economic affairs from almost 50 different countries to explore the unique innovation community in Espoo.

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