Reviled in Argentina, paper mills bring life to Finland
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At the heart of an angry dispute between Argentina and Uruguay, pulp mills, sometimes seen as major polluters, have brought life to parts of Finland where they have often been around longer than the trees themselves.
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The road to this island on  Finland&#39;s western coast winds through pristine fields and  forests, an idyllic place for a cottage by the shore -- if you  ignore the heavy-duty power lines overhead.
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By Morris, Helen  This staff-owned firm finds investing in its products and a 100m biomass plant yields rewards. By Helen Morris  Paper manufacturing in the UK has gone through a torrid few months.
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CANBERRA, Australia - An environmentally friendly paper manufacturer has stumbled upon an unlikely way to put an unwanted natural resource to good use.  The company has created its first batch of paper from marsupial manure.
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Free the Finnish fur foxes, Pamela Anderson says. After arriving Thursday to host a music festival west of Helsinki, Anderson told Finnish President Tarja Halonen in a letter that her nation should emulate other countries that have banned fur farms.'It's time for Finland to move into the 21st century and follow suit,' said Anderson, whose great-grandfather was Finnish. The letter was distributed to the media by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.Finland's fur auctioneers said the appeal was unrealistic. 'It's not surprising coming from her, a known anti-fur campaigner,' said Paivi Mononen-Mikkila, a spokeswoman for the Finnish Fur Sales auction house. 'It's really not realistic as so many people earn their livelihood from the fur trade.' Read more
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Finland is recovering from its mobile hangover, says Juha Mikkola. Finnish companies were not making globally hungry business plans and product companies were aiming only for subcontracting, but things are ...
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Brussels, December 7: Finland again came out on top of a worldwide education study of the organisation for economic cooperation and development.
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Finland, a perfectly livable little European country with five million of the hardiest hockey fans this side of Moose Jaw, had an inferiority complex.
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Nokia, the mobile phone company, is standing by its decision to close its factory in Bochum, western Germany. About 2,300 employees are affected along with, according to trade union estimates, up to 2,000 jobs at suppliers and subcontractors. The Finnish company's decision has provoked indignation. The reasons for the public outrage are obvious: Nokia earns EU90,000 a year from each production worker - operating profit at Bochum runs at an annual EU134m. Nevertheless, production will now be shifted to Romania.
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BusinessWeek Online - It's late summer in Finland's lake country, and a group of twenty 59-year-olds are lolling around a sauna at a wooded resort in high spirits, occasionally plunging into the frigid lake. For the second year in a row, Europe's No. 2 paper manufacturer, UPM, has invited the group of aging mill hands to a two-day retreat. No, it's not a prelude to retirement. UPM is coddling the group with fine food and lectures on health, flexible work programs, and retraining in the hope that they will all stay on the job until age 65 -- if not longer. ...
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When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity Â an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
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Finland plans to sell as much as 1.37 billion euros ($1.83 billion) worth of shares in TeliaSonera AB, the Nordic region s largest phone company, as part of the country s program of stock sales to reduce debt.
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New raw materials are proving a technological leap in packaging. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed new products from potatoes and grain for the packaging, paper, construction and medical ...
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Finns are not known for their loquacity, but even by their reserved standards last week&#39;s statement from Perlos, a no-frills manu&shy;facturer of covers for mobile phones, was blunt. &quot;There are no possibilities to continue production operations in Finland,&quot; it declar&shy;ed, and with that 1,123 people were out of work.
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Holmen's Hallsta Paper Mill in Hallstavik, just north of Stockholm, Sweden, is today starting union negotiations regarding the previously announced cost reduction programme.
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Finland is about more than the holy trinity of sauna, Jean Sibelius and Kaurismaki: the country is also rich in science, art and popular music.
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THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Dec. 18 (IPS) - Uruguay urged the International Court of Justice  Monday to force Argentina to take measures against environmental  activists who block three access roads to Uruguay, where a  controversial pulp mill is being constructed.