Materials & Manufacturing

“There are so many opportunities in tech, and not everything is coding,” explains Lulu Zhang, head of Digital Enabling Platforms at KONE IT. During almost two decades in the IT sector, Lulu has taken the plunge into new waters many times. Read more ›

Imagine a car on the highway – with the driver collapsed on the wheel, leg still on the accelerator, while more cars keep joining the same lane. That’s how we…Read more ›

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is one of the single most important Finnish inventions of all time. Today, ALD applications are everywhere. The technique involves coating structures with thin films one…Read more ›

Real-time data in air quality monitoring is helping in weather observations and can provide well-being for everyone. Our host Henkka Hyppönen discusses the subject with John Liljelund, Director at Vaisala, a global leader in weather, environmental and industrial measurement products and services.Read more ›

Could wood-based textile fibers change the way we produce clothing? Watch the Millennium Talks with innovation leaders video with Metsä Group’s Niklas von Weymarn to learn more about responding to the pressure on finding more sustainable raw materials!Read more ›

Metsä Group, a Finnish forest industry group, a forerunner in sustainable bioeconomy, has started as a Millennium Technology Prize Partner on the 1st of January 2020.Read more ›

The 2016 Millennium Technology Prize winner Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry and is now the third person to have won these two prestigious prizes.Read more ›

The increase in storage capacity enables us to create and store an ever increasing amount of data, and apply big data to a multitude of applications. Big Data refers to the capture, storage and analysis of voluminous sets of unstructured data masses with the help of advanced IT solutions.Read more ›

The world is choking with toxic clothes waste and the Finnish Ioncell technology could be revolutionizing the textile recycling.Read more ›