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NEWS NEW BUSINESS PARK on the Tampere-Nokia border The cities of Tampere and Nokia have engaged in a sizeable joint business park project. The new park, Kolmenkulma, will be developed next to the Myllypuro business concentration in Tampere’s western quarters. The total area of the new business park will be 800 hectares, making it one of the largest business parks in the Tampere urban region. The first plots in Kolmenkulma are to be handed over in 2007. Photo Nokian Tyres Changing up to the GREEN GEAR Switching to harm-free oils in tyre production was a challenge. To retain existing characteristics or further improve on them, the tyre mixes had to be redesigned and tested. Wet-grip characteristics have been achieved by taking into use entirely new polymer types, for example. Harmful oils in winter tyres have been replaced with Finnish rapeseed oil, which improves grip on ice and in the wet as well as tear resistance. Tampere hosts MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE The European Machine Vision Association, EMVA, will hold its next annual conference in Tampere on 30 June and 1 July, 2006. The congress will be attended by management from European, US and Asian machine vision companies as well as sales and marketing experts. Key themes at the conference will include the prospects in machine vision markets, new areas of application and the Nordic machine vision market. EMVA was founded in Barcelona in 2003 to act as an umbrella organization for European machine vision companies and national associations in the field. Tampere is a fitting host for the machine vision congress due to its strong research and technological expertise. Research into machine vision is conducted at Tampere University of Technology and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The technology itself is utilized in large, internationally operating Tampere companies such as Metso Automation and Fastems, which supply factory automation systems, and in mechanical engineering companies like Kalmar. Several growth companies utilizing machine vision or digital imaging have also emerged in Tampere in recent years. “Machine vision has traditionally been used in the electronics industry in the quality control of increasingly small components. In Finland, camera-based measuring has been applied since the 1970s, particularly in the sawmill and paper industries,” says Pertti Aimonen from Atostek Oy, a company that designs machine vision systems. Aimonen is responsible for the congress arrangements in Finland. “New application prospects are offered by fields such as medical imaging and automatic digital imaging, for example in automated traffic monitoring. Tampere also has exceptionally strong optoelectronics research and hosts spin-off businesses that utilize machine vision in their production and manufacture components for the industry.” Nokian Tyres has changed over to an increasingly environmentally friendly tyre manufacturing method and relinquished the use of HA oils entirely. In its own production the company now uses only purified oils which replace high aromatic oils now classified as harmful. The change applies to all products manufactured by Nokian Tyres: passenger car tyres, heavy vehicle and work machine tyres and Nokian’s Noktop retreading materials. Nokian Tyres is the only tyre factory in the world to manufacture products using only purified oils. The purified oils used by Nokian Tyres have fewer PAH (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon) compounds than required by an impending EU directive. The directive comes into force in 2009 or 2010 at the latest and obligates tyre manufacturers to switch to purified, harm-free oils. MOLOK’S environmental technology to Brazil The Nokia-based developer of deep waste collection technology Molok Oy has achieved a significant opening in the Brazilian waste management market. Comlurb, a waste management company operating in the Rio de Janeiro area, has approved Molok containers for use in real estate and parks. The deep containers have also been taken into use in the capital, Brasil. Comlurb opted for Molok’s deep collection system due to its high collection capacity, cleanliness and odour-freeness. To date Molok has delivered approximately 40,000 deep collection containers to Finland and other Nordic countries as well as to Brazil, Spain, Canada and the Arab Emirates, among others. 16 Tampere Business • Science • Life
Photo: Kalmar Industries Automated, unmanned straddle carriers handle the transfer of containers between the wharf, stockyard and truck loading area at Fisherman’s Island, Brisbane, Australia. Both the straddle carriers and their control system have been supplied by the Tampere factory of Kalmar Industries Oy Ab. FOCUS ON CONTAINER HANDLING INTELLIGENCE and AUTOMATION Kalmar has established a new dedicated business unit, Kalmar Intelligence & Automation, to focus on the marketing and development of on-board smart features for container handling equipment, integrated systems and remote maintenance products in cooperation with customers and partners. The move reaffi rms Kalmar’s leading role in the evolution of integrated intelligence and automation for ports and terminals. The new Tampere-based business unit started operations in spring 2005. Jorma Tirkkonen has been appointed president of the new unit. Prior to this appointment Tirkkonen spent more than eight years in the US as President of Kalmar Sales Company for the Americas and the Kalmar Trailer Logistics business segment. In addition to marketing and R&D activities, Kalmar Intelligence & Automation’s primary responsibilities include the timely and successful implementation of automation delivery projects and customer support on a 24/7 basis. An improved effi ciency of operations, better machine performance and safety and environmental advantages are typical benefi ts customers can expect as a result of increased automation. More effi ciency, improved safety Kalmar is a pioneer in the automation of container handling equipment. It has created a large variety of intelligence and automation products, systems and services for the container handling industry. The fi rst signifi cant step towards the automation of container handling equipment came in the early 1990s when the company introduced Driver Assisting Features (DRAF). In association with Patrick Stevedores, in 2002 Kalmar accomplished its longterm goal of building the world’s fi rst fully automated straddle carrier terminal at Fisherman’s Island, Brisbane, Australia. Kalmar’s Smartrail ® automatic gantry steering system for RTGs is based on a Global Positioning System (GPS) which steers the crane along a pre-determined virtual rail. This enables the driver to travel at maximum speed between lifts and to concentrate fully on picking up or setting down containers. Smartpath ® is a container position verifi cation system for straddle carriers and RTGs. The system provides real-time position verifi cation for each container handled, enabling individual machines to be tasked in the most effi cient way. Remote Machine Interface (RMI) is a monitoring and maintenance system/software for all computerized Kalmar container handling machines and trucks. It enables a terminal control room to monitor the operation of a large number of machines and can be used for machine monitoring, maintenance tasks and reporting. Machines can also be monitored via the internet by Kalmar’s product support or design department. Customers are able to receive support and assistance directly from the factory. As an unmanned rail-mounted yard crane, the automated stacking crane (ASC) has won favour in high-throughput terminals where a combination of high speed and high stacking density is required. Tampere Business • Science • Life 17
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