Industry & Natural Resources

Building technologies

Energy efficiency

Bioenergy

Heat pumps and testing

Small scale energy production

From Kemi
Electric power engineering
Incl. Smart grids,

New lab investment going on

Contact

Project Manager, Ms Milla Hirvaskari, tel. +358 40 571 6578, milla.hirvaskari

Winter and cold climate technologies

Measurement application

Big data, Internet of things, Industrial internet

Intelligent traffic

Laboratories

Contact

Project Manager, Mr Heikki Konttaniemi, tel. +358 40 161 4521, heikki.konttaniemi

www.arcticpower.fi

Usability of steels

New hot rolled structural and wear steels

• Cooperation with SSAB, mines, industry, and industrial service companies
• Thinner steel, lighter structure
• Wear resistant steel, longer life time and less material

Welding in cold

• Tests made in the Arctic Power Cold lab

High level laboratory equipment for both destructive and non-destructive testing

Mineralogy

Polarisation microscope, Carbon coater / Sputter coater, Rocksaws

Sieve sets, Precision cutter, Knelson concentrator

Portable XRF (Bruker), Portable hardness tester

Drying cabinets, Scales, MLA- software (NSS Thermo)+ detector

Contact

Project manager, Mr Rauno Toppila, tel. +358 50 310 9542, rauno.toppila

Materials Usability Research in Lapland UAS

Applied research and development in

• Intelligent knowledge management for maintenance
• Preventive maintenance and methods
• Failing mode and cause analyses
• Effectivication of maintenance work planning
• Mobile technologies in maintenance (incl. AR)

Partners

• Stora Enso
• Metsä Fibre
• Outokumpu
• Outokumpu Chrome
• SSAB
• Sähköpojat
• Solteq Oyj
• Ramentor Oy
• BMS
• Efora
• Etteplan
• Agnico Eagle
• University of Oulu
• VTT Espoo
• Kajaani University of Applied Sciences
• Luleå University
  
  

Financers

• Business Finland
• Regional Council of Lapland
• Interreg, ECSEL JTI
  

Contact

Project manager, Mr Aslak Siimes, tel. +358 50 427 6421, aslak.siimes

Capability

• Applying optical measurement technologies for industrial needs
• Machine vision (2D/3D) and 3D coordinate measurements
• Prototypes and demonstrations

Laboratory

• Research environment, tachymeter, Industrial X-ray system, thermal cameras
• Embedded systems

Partners

• Industry: Outokumpu, Terrafame, STX, Stora Enso, SSAB
• Equipment and service suppliers: Metso Automation, Rambooms, Prismarit, Efora, Inspecta, Etteplan
• SMEs: Inspex, VisiCaMet, AMS, Rubibco, MBV Systems
• Research: Luleå University, Oulu University

Training

• Robotics
• CAD
• Machine vision

Contact

Project manager, Mr Harri Pikkarainen, tel. +358 50 316 8262, harri.pikkarainen