Funding for SMEs and midcap companies

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Funding for SMEs and midcap companies

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TBusiness Finland is the most important publicly funded expert organisation for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. Business Finalnd offers funding and support for SMEs operating in Finland and aiming at the international markets or looking to expand their international business.
The funding and support can include, for example:
- Developing a product or service, production methods and business models
- Testing and demonstrating functionality through pilots
- Innovation vouchers to purchase new knowledge and skills for your business

Quick-Check Energy

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Quick-Check Energy

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Quick-Check-Energy (KURZ.energiecheck) provides an initial assessment of a company's energy consumption, which can be compared with averages in the respective industry. The check thus provides a good basis for identifying critical areas ahead of an energy appraisal by consultants, for example.

Eco-Cockpit Tool

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Eco-Cockpit Tool

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Eco-Cockpit helps companies determine their product, process and location-related CO2 emissions. In a second step, the tool helps to identify actions required and develop concrete measures for CO2-emissions reduction, which also provides a good basis for identifying potential material and energy efficiency gains.

Compressed Air Efficient Tool

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Compressed Air Efficient Tool

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Compressed Air Efficient helps by optimising a company's energy consumption and reducing costs in compressed-air applications. An additional Excel-Tool provides information about the life-cycle costs of the compressed-air system.

CO2-Tool

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CO2-Tool

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The CO2-Tool provides assistance by assessing a company's CO2 emissions during production and highlighting where improvements can be made. Areas with high energy reduction potential are machines, compressed air, air-conditioning and cooling systems, space heating, etc.

Cleantool

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Cleantool

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The Cleantool provides assistance in assessing and planning metal surface cleaning processes through a database of good practice examples. These processes were invented in small and big enterprises which means they have a proven track record.

Construction Waste Tool

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Construction Waste Tool

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The Construction Waste Tool comprises several valuable aids to properly assess, manage and optimise a company's construction waste streams. It also presents ideas and opportunities on how to build with recycable materials and provides information about the separation of building rubble during demolition.

Exhaust Heat Calculator

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Exhaust Heat Calculator

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The Exhaust Heat Calculator helps a company to evaluate its exhaust-heat potential. After entering basic data about the company's waste-heat sources, the tool calculates the available amount of waste heat and provides information on whether it makes sense to use it. In addition, the reasonable investment costs are estimated and the necessary operating time of the system is specified.