Kemira headquarters in Helsinki
Kemira is a global two billion euro chemicals company that is focused on serving customers in water-intensive industries. The company offers water quality and quantity management that improves customers’ energy, water, and raw material efficiency. Kemira’s goal is to be a leading water chemistry company.
Paper
We offer chemical products and integrated systems that help customers in the water-intensive pulp and paper industry to improve their profitability as well as their water, raw material and energy efficiency. Our solutions support sustainable development.
Municipal & Industrial
We offer water treatment chemicals for municipalities and industrial customers. Our strengths are high-level application know-how, a comprehensive range of water treatment chemicals, and reliable customer deliveries.
Oil & Mining
We offer a large selection of innovative chemical extraction and process solutions for the oil and mining industries, where water plays a central role. Utilizing our expertise, we enable our customers to improve efficiency and productivity.
ChemSolutions
We offer chemical products and customer-driven solutions to the food, feed, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Utilizing our application expertise, our customers can benefit through improved profitability and enhanced product quality.
Kemira to form a joint venture and a strategic alliance with IVRCL in India
Kemira Oyj
Press release, September 7, 2010
Kemira Oyj and the Promoters of IVRCL have agreed to form a joint venture in India. In addition, Kemira, Hindustan Dorr-Oliver (HDO) and IVRCL are forming a strategic alliance to serve Indian water treatment markets. IVRCL and HDO are leading water infrastructure companies in India.
The joint venture will include an inorganic coagulant manufacturing facility to be constructed in Vishakapatnam (Vizag) in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Inorganic coagulants are essential chemicals used in industrial and municipal water treatment. The manufacturing facility is expected to be operational during the second half of 2011.
The joint venture is 51% owned by Kemira and 49% by the Promoters of IVRCL. The strategic alliance includes a supply agreement under which Kemira will provide water treatment chemicals to IVRCL’s water treatment plants in India. The joint venture and the supply agreement are not expected to have a significant short-term financial impact on Kemira.
“This cooperation is well-aligned with Kemira’s strategy to grow profitably in India. Through this cooperation Kemira will have a strong manufacturing base in India and an opportunity to broaden our business. Combining Kemira’s water chemistry know-how and IVRCL’s expertise in building water infrastructure we are able to meet the rapidly growing water demand, especially in the industrial customer segments. Also with the local production facilities we can ensure cost-effective and efficient customer deliveries,” says Hannu Virolainen, Senior Vice President, Industrial customer segment, Kemira Oyj.
IVRCL is a publicly listed company in India with a 1.5 billion USD turnover. It is one of the leading water infrastructure companies in India and it has several water infrastructure projects in water treatment plants, mining operations and refineries. Kemira has established its Indian operations in 2008 headquartered in the city of Hyderabad. Globally, Kemira is one of the leading water chemistry companies.
The Switch
The Switch is a leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages that effectively capture power from highly variable new energy sources like wind and solar. The technology ensures reliable, future-proof grid compliance and maximized energy yields. Since starting operations in July 2006, The Switch has reached net sales of EUR 125 million, with 5,000MW of installed wind power capacity. The Switch is headquartered in Vantaa, Finland with production facilities in Finland, China and the US, and offices in Denmark, India, Germany, Korea and Spain.
Switching power to energy is company’s mantra.
Combining a permanent magnet generator with a power converter in a drive train is simple, but nobody integrates them into a totally optimized package the way The Switch does. Our generator and converter package, The Switch Drive™, is tailored to meet each of our customers’ specific requirements and enables them to get more energy from wind power and New Energy sources.
The Switch Drive™ is the soul of every reliable wind turbine. We aim at being the technology leader for electrical power conversion by switching one turbine at a time wherever energy is gathered.
Key facts
What we do
The Switch provides generator and converter packages for wind power and other renewable energy applications.
Who we are
The Switch personnel numberes more than 190. We have 8 nationalities among our team.
How we are doing
Consolidated turnover in 2008: EUR 53.7 million
Consolidated balance sheet in 2008: EUR 33.5 million
The soul of every reliable wind turbine
The Switch supplies megawatt-class permanent magnet generator (PMG) and full-power converter (FPC) packages that effectively capture power from the wind and meet the needs of today’s wind turbine applications. Each of our solutions is designed and built to withstand harsh conditions.
The Switch Drive™ for wind, our fully optimized generator and converter package, enables our customers to get more energy from wind power. Combining a PMG with a FPC in a drive train is simple, but nobody integrates them into a totally optimized package the way The Switch does.
We offer the widest range of standard and tailored generator and converter packages designed to maximize wind power generation. Our technology ensures reliable, future-proof grid compliance and maximized energy yields.
The Switch enters India’s booming wind and solar market;Establishes The Switch India Office in Chenna,
Business Standard, February 01, 2011
The Switch, a Finland-based new energy technology company, announced the expansion of its international presence by establishing a wholly-owned The Switch India office in Chennai. The new home base serves as the company’s beachhead to strengthen its business network and to lead business development efforts in the fast-growing wind and solar power market in India.
Pertti Kurttila, VP, Supply at The Switch: “India’s growing wind and solar power market is highly attractive for us. The government’s wind and solar power program has been the fastest growing sector of the country’s energy planning process. India’s wind power potential exceeds 45,000MW and the country also possesses a large and high-potential solar energy resource. By 2022, India’s target is to have 38,500MW of installed wind power capacity and 20,000MW of solar power respectively, part of which is based on grid connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.”
The Switch has more than 5,000MW of installed wind power capacity in the global market and in solar solutions the company’s focus is on high-power level applications starting at 500kW. “Our strategy is to provide efficient and reliable technology to help India achieve the government’s energy goals and to meet the country’s growing energy needs also in the future,” Kurttila explains.
Permanent magnet technology gains momentum in the Indian wind power market
By focusing on permanent magnet technology, The Switch has helped the world’s top turbine manufacturers, such as Goldwind, Doosan and Powerwind generate more high-quality electricity.The Switch products are already also gaining momentum in the Indian market. Through the recent wind turbine purchase agreement signed by Chinese Dongfang Electric and Indian KSK Energy, The Switch will be contributing to the export of 166 1.5MW wind turbines to India. The Switch is a technology provider and key component supplier of permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages for Dongfang Electric.
“For us, the Dongfang Electric and KSK Energy deal is a step in the right direction, and we look forward to participating in many more businesses in the Indian wind and solar power market,” said C.Sundar, who is responsible for the sales and marketing activities for the Switch in India. “Of the total 18,000MW of installed Indian renewable energy capacity, some 13,000MW come from wind energy alone and the number is expected to grow. Our intent is to be the partner of choice for our Indian customers for multi-megawatt power generation and to help them develop the country’s vast potential for clean energy.
On 4 February 2011, The Switch participated in the 2011 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. A number of leading minds gathered here this week, including heads of state, economists, CEOs and other private sector representatives, to discuss sustainable development and economy from local perspective. The notion of a Green Economy has gained momentum in recent years due to increased understanding of the links between the environment and the economy, and the emergence of climate change as a major global priority. If our future is to be in any way assured, our economies need to achieve human well-being without destroying the environment on which that well-being depends.
Ruukki Oyj
Ruukki is a multi-skilled company in the steel and engineering industries. Having 11,800 employees in 27 countries, including the Nordic countries, the Baltics, Russia & Ukraine and Central Eastern Europe, Ruukki supplies metal-based components, systems and integrated systems to the construction and mechanical engineering industries. Ruukki’s official name in English is Rautaruukki Corporation and in Finnish is Rautaruukki Oyj. Having its registered office in Helsinki, Finland, the company uses the marketing name Ruukki.
Ruukki’s product offering
Foundations and frames
Trusses
Steel piles, WQ beams, CWQ beams, Trusses, Load-bearing sheets.
Sandwich panels
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External walls, Intrnal walls, roofs, ceilings, cold storage.
Facade claddings
Facade claddings
Façade claddings, Liberta rainscreen panels,Claddings lamellas, Design profiles.
Prefabricated wall elements
Prefabricated wall elements used in Technopolis Vantaa, Finland
Prefabricated external wall element.
Steel roofs and roof structures
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Steel roofs for homes, prefabricated roof elements, Load-bearing sheets, Sandwich panels.
Market position
Ruukki Construction
Pacesetter in steel construction in Northern, Central Eastern and Eastern Europe.
Leading foundations and transport infrastructure constructor in the Nordic countries.
One of the leading residential steel roofing providers.
Ruukki Engineering
Leading supplier of systems and components to global OEM customers in the lifting, handling and transportation equipment industry and to equipment manufacturers in the energy industry.
Ruukki Metals
- Strong foothold in core markets in the Nordic countries.
- Cutting-edge maker of special steel products.
- Extensive range of services in steel service centres in Finland, Sweden, Poland and Russia.
