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Writer: Sanna Peltonen, MUOVA, Pictures: Veera Hautala, MUOVA SMEs need support from external organisations when they are developing eco-innovations. Intermediary organisations have an important role in encouraging, promoting, and facilitating business-to-business linkages and partnerships. Intermediary organisation can be public or private. They can be non-profit or for-profit organizations like chambers of commerce, trade associations, local…
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Image by Sulapac Writer: Tommi Silvan, Vaasa university of Applied Sciences, Design Centre MUOVA. There is some interesting companies in Finland working with sustainable materials in order to replace widely used plastics in production. One and maybe best known by now is Sulapac Ltd. Sulapac Ltd has got lot attention with their material innovation and…
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Writer: Trine M. Nielsen, VIA University College An important task in the project is to communicate about ECOLABNET, making the network visible. This post is an example of such an activity. We would be happy to do it again.PRE- Corona, Team VIA presented the ECOLABNET project externally at a conference in an Intermediary organization “Hedensted…
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Writer: Trine M. Nielsen, VIA University College A survey conducted within the ECOLABNET project in the 6 partner countries – Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark – shows, that the manufacturing SMEs in regard to eco-innovation in general are: highly motivated, already working with eco-innovation or at least considering it making procedures for implementing…
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Writer: Mangirdas Malinauskas, Vilnius University We have investigated acrylated epoxidized soy bean oil (AESO) based photocurable resins, which were proven to be suitable for both commercially available personal table-top 3D printers and to state-of-the-art ultrafast laser nanolithography dedicated setups. Thus, it covers the range of 5 orders of magnitude in spatial fabrication resolution/accuracy, which by…
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Writer: Sanna Peltonen, Vaasa university of Applied Sciences, Design Centre MUOVA. The importance of ecological aspects has increased in recent years and eco-innovation is often discussed in the context of sustainability. According to the European Commission, “Eco-innovation refers to all forms of innovation – technological and non-technological – that create business opportunities and benefit the…
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Writer: Veera Hautala, Vaasa university of Applied Sciences, Design Centre MUOVA. Ecolabnet project researchers participated in the leading industrial event in Northern Europe in Helsinki on March 11-12, 2020, called PacTec, FoodTec & PlastExpo Nordic. A total of 2,765 visitors visited the fair over two days. Although the current coronavirus significantly reduced the number of…
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Writer: Dariusz Dudek, CTU Czestochowa University of Technology On October 27-29, 2019 in Czestochowa, the second working meeting of the ECOLABNET Network of Service Providers for Eco-innovations in Manufacturing SMEs project, implemented as part of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region program, aimed at creating a network of service providers supporting ecological innovations in manufacturing SMEs…
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Writer: Jolita Ostrauskaite, KTU Kaunas University of Technology Tarragona, October 15-18, 2019. Kaunas University of Technology representatives attended the 7th International Baekeland Symposium devoted to the strengthening of academic and industrial networks. This conference was an exciting and inspired meeting of the world experts working in the field of thermosets. The latest results from the…
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