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01.12.2025 • Business Joensuu news

Finland’s Longest-Running Startup Competition is now Susicorn

PRESS RELEASE 1 December 2025 The Start Me Up business idea competition, organized since 1999, has been renewed and will take place under the name Susicorn Startup Competition in 2026. It is...

18.11.2025 • Green transition

Lipa-Betoni becomes the world’s first precast concrete manufacturer to adopt Carbonaide’s carbon capture technology

PRESS RELEASE Nov. 11th, 2025

23.10.2025 • Business Joensuu news

Eastern Finland Energy Forum 2025: Finland’s Electricity Grid Faces Historic Expansion to Power the Green Transition

At the Eastern Finland Energy Forum 2025, leading energy infrastructure experts from Fingrid, Caruna, and OX2 presented a unified message: Finland’s electricity grid must undergo rapid and strategic...

08.10.2025 • Business Joensuu news

Visma Sirius acquires Kodia Oy – Start Up Fund Joensuu among early investors

Visma Sirius, a provider of software solutions for the real estate sector, has expanded its operations by acquiring Kodia Oy, a Joensuu-based real estate software company. The acquisition was...

18.08.2025 • Business Joensuu news

Grow and develop your company with the Business Whisperers in Joensuu

This autumn, Business Joensuu will once again carry out the Business Whisperers campaign during weeks 35, 40, and 45. Throughout the campaign, Joensuu companies will be approached personally to...

13.12.2024 • City of Joensuu

The Joensuu Region's Economy is Thriving: Major Investments and International Success

A new factory is being built in Kitee with €29 million in funding, Valio is creating 100 new jobs in Joensuu, and Kelluu Oy has gained international recognition through NATO's DIANA program....

13.12.2024 • Business Joensuu news

Business Whisperers 2024 campaign reached over 500 companies and highlighted business needs

This autumn, the Business Whisperers campaign connected with 516 companies in Joensuu, identifying needs to support business development. Discussions with entrepreneurs revealed recurring themes such...

11.12.2024 • Business Joensuu news

Kelluu selected for NATO’s DIANA Programme from over 2,600 applicants

The Finnish company Kelluu Oy, specializing in environmental data collection with airships, is one of 75 companies chosen for NATO's DIANA Programme for 2025. Out of more than 2,600 applications,...

17.10.2024 • Business Joensuu news

Feteco Oy focuses on Data-Driven Management

Jukka Kurkinen was on the lookout for a final career project after over a decade in international online business and then leading product development at a major engineering firm. In 2021, he found...

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21.09.2026 • ICT and digitalisation

Kelluu builds new factory at Joensuu GreenPark– airship production to triple

Kelluu is building a new production and R&D factory at GreenPark in Joensuu. It will triple the company's manufacturing capacity and take output to one hundred autonomous airships a year. The...

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16.09.2026 • Forest bioeconomy and circular economy