Exhibitors 2024
The Kokkola Material Week, held annually, provides a high-level overview of current research and development perspectives in chemistry, bioeconomy, and mineral economy. This year’s event will take place from November 11th to 14th, 2024. It’s an excellent opportunity for networking!
For the 12th time, this event offers a fantastic chance to showcase your company or organization’s activities to visitors interested in the themes of Kokkola Material Week.
All exhibitor spots are now fully booked. Thank you for the great interest!
Exhibitor; please remember to register for the event through the registration link!
Additional Information:
Visit Kokkola / Milla Kulmala, milla.kulmala@visitkokkola.fi or +358 44 7809 714.
The exhibition space reserved for exhibitors is located in the Gamlakarlebyaula at Kokkola City Hall.
Each exhibitor space includes a table (182cm x 74cm x 74cm) covered with a dark tablecloth.
Exhibitors can set up their tables starting from Monday afternoon, November 11th.
Exhibitors 2024
Boliden Kokkola is a world-class zinc plant producing high-quality zinc products to meet the needs of renewable energy production, green transition and modern society. The zinc we produce is used in cars, bridges, batteries, light poles, constructions — everything our modern way of life needs. We are part of the international Boliden Group with production facilities in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Ireland. Our goal is to be the most climate-friendly and respected metal provider in the world.
Umicore operates a highly automated hydrometallurgical processing facility at Kokkola’s Industrial Park on the West Coast of Finland. It is the largest cobalt refining plant outside China and a big European precursor plant. Operational since 1968, our facility became part of the Umicore Group in 2019. We currently employ around 400 people and our number of personnel is growing strongly.
Our plant’s expertise is based on extensive R&D efforts and long experience in the refining, recycling, purification and processing of cobalt into high purity chemicals. Our cathode precursors are transformed into active cathode materials in Umicore’s cathode production facilities and end up in Li-ion batteries of portable electronics and electric vehicles.
Similar to all other plants at Umicore, safety and respect for the environment are a top priority as well as the ethical sourcing of its raw materials, such as cobalt.
The Umicore Group has a long standing expertise in metal treatment of more than 200 years. The plant in Kokkola fits its strategic growth path and its ambition to contribute to the accelerating transition to cleaner mobility in Europe and the rest of the world.
Työplus – The biggest occupational health care provider in this area
Työplus is dedicated to providing and developing healthcare services for the workforce, and providing educational and consulting services in the field. Työplus provides services for 27.000 employees locally in the Kokkola, Pietarsaari, Lesti- and Perhojokilaakso areas at 11 different locations.
Työplus is also located at Port Tower, situated in the heart of Kokkola´s growing industrial zone. Our operations are founded on our values, which include trust, empathy, accountability and fair cooperation. Our clientele includes a wide range of different companies in the production sector.
We specialize in preventive occupational healthcar
Holger Hartmann Oy – Analytical Technology and Comprehensive Service Holger Hartmann Oy is a supplier of analytical instruments for the technology industry. We offer top-quality products such as NITON XRF and SPECTRO analyzers, as well as HERZOG sample preparation machines and automation systems, all renowned for their precision and reliability. Our innovative solutions help industrial players improve the efficiency and quality of their processes. Our service doesn’t end with the purchase—we provide comprehensive maintenance services to ensure the longevity and reliability of your equipment.
HYDAC is best known for hydraulics and lubrication services, but our company also has a lot of expertise in process and heat transfer technology as well as water filtration. Our end customers include large companies in the paper and pulp industry, the steel industry and mining, the chemical and refinery industries, as well as the energy industry, in which we have been involved for example in the energy industry heat pump and district heating/cooling projects. We are also strongly involved in renewable energy. We have 20 years of experience with hydrogen.
Rittal Oy is part of the German Friedhelm Loh Group, which has 94 subsidiaries worldwide and employs almost 12 000 people. Rittal Oy is located at Tammiston kauppatie 35 in Vantaa. The office, warehouse and workshop are located at the same address. In Finland Rittal has around 60 employees and a turnover in 2023 of more than EUR 40 million. We offer a variety of switchgear cabinet systems, individual cabinets, IT racks, outdoor enclosures, HD enclosures, related power distribution, cooling and heating systems, and numerous other accessories and much more.
KIP Infra Oy operates in Kokkola Industrial Park (KIP), where we actively develop the competitiveness, reliability and safety of existing and future companies in the Park. We improve the operating conditions of companies by letting facilities and providing logistical services. KIP Infra Oy manages its land areas, buildings and infrastructure. KIP Infra Oy also rents premises in the centre of Kokkola.
We are the market leader in contract logistics in the Nordic countries. We offer a wide range of services with which we create added value for our customers. We are an independent operator without our own infrastructure and we always tailor the solution according to the customer’s needs.
Our service concept includes:
- Logistics consulting services
- Warehousing services
- Production logistics services
- Transportation services
- Customs and forwarding services
- Port and terminal services
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. We provide process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analytics, temperature, recording and digital communications, optimizing processes in terms of economic efficiency, safety & environmental impact.
As a global leader in laboratory technologies, Agilent is committed to helping scientists bring great science to life. As they pursue small, everyday advances and life-changing discoveries, we provide trusted answers to scientists’ most critical questions and challenges. Leveraging more than 50 years of expertise, we create advanced instruments, software, and consumables supported by teams of highly skilled and knowledgeable people.
Our comprehensive solutions produce the most accurate results as well as optimal scientific, economic, and operational outcomes. By working collaboratively with our customers and supporting their needs, we help them bring great science to the environmental, energy and, chemical fields.
Valmet has a global customer base across various process industries. We are a leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and with our automation and flow control solutions we serve an even wider base of process industries, like mining and metals, chemicals, refining, energy and many other process industries.
Labo Line Oy is a Finnish family-owned distributor of laboratory equipment, founded in 1993. Labo Line offers expertize high quality products, training and technical services for the whole life span of laboratory equipment – from consulting to after sales technical service. Labo Line is focused on cold storage equipment, protective workstations, chemical storage solutions, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization solutions, and heat technology equipment such as furnaces and ovens. The most important customers are universities and research institutes and industrial QC and RD laboratories.
Atolli is a Finnish plastics specialist serving industries in different fields. Our main customers operate in chemical industry, battery industry and water purification. We have acquired knowledge and experience of plastic materials and products over the course of over fifty years.
The Accon Group is a major supplier of bulk packaging to the industry in the Nordic countries. With 40 years of experience, Accon’s principal focus has always been to be a reliable business partner that offers standard and customised packaging and handling solutions.
We deliver projects, services, and products for a wide range of Industry, such as food and agriculture industries, fishery and aquaculture, pharma industry, environment, recycling industries, as well as transport and logistics. Accon offers innovative and sustainable solutions.
Accon Suomi Oy is part of Accon Group, which has own manufacturing plants in Finland and Estonia and sales offices in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
We can handle it!
AFRY provides engineering, design, digital and advisory services to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in industry, energy and infrastructure sectors, creating impact for generations to come.
AFRY’s services for mining, minerals processing, and metal industry extend from preliminary exploration activities and environmental permitting to finished goods for use in further production, to end-of-life recycling. We offer a full range of consulting and engineering services to help mining and metals companies in shaping and developing their ideas and concepts into technically, financially and environmentally sound solutions. We can identify the optimal technological options for each project as we are completely independent of machine suppliers.
Technology with purpose
Siemens Osakeyhtiö is a company that builds a sustainable future through technology. Our mission is to provide society with solutions to meet the challenges of a changing world together with our partners and customers. As a forerunner in the digital transformation, we are constantly developing smarter products and services for industry, buildings and grids. Through our innovations, we promote the well-being of both present and future generations.
Sibanye-Stillwater’s Keliber Lithium Project
The goal of the Keliber Lithium Project is to start the production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide from its own ore, making it the first in Europe to do so, thereby supporting the green transition by facilitating the electrification of transportation. The Keliber Lithium Project is being developed by Keliber Oy, a subsidiary of the international mining and metals processing company Sibanye-Stillwater. The second largest owner is Suomen Malmijalostus Oy, which is developing the domestic lithium-ion battery value chain. During the construction phase, the lithium project will employ approximately 500 workers, and once production is stabilized, it will employ 300. The production ramp-up is scheduled to begin in 2025. Come meet us at the Kokkola Material Week event!
Lindström offers textile services based on circular economy that are designed to make life easier for our customers. By committing to operating in accordance with the circular economy and sustainable development, we can offer our customers an option to minimize the burden on the environment, which is alternative to disposable products, owning textiles and washing at home.
Lindström is an international family business from Finland. We are one of Europe’s leading textile service companies with over 175 years of experience in the textile industry. We have a comprehensive service network in Finland, and our services are close to our customers.
We offer a comprehensive variety of textile services from workwear, mats, hotel and restaurant textiles to industrial towel services.
Lindström operates in 24 countries in Europe and Asia. We employ 4,700 people worldwide.
Talent Coastline is an ecosystem of actors working towards the availability of skilled international labor in Ostrobothnia and Central Ostrobothnia. In the ecosystem we promote attraction and retention and streamline international recruitments, i.e. implement the objectives of the national Talent Boost program.
We provide employers information on current issues, events and networks related to international recruitment and compile ongoing projects promoting the employment of international experts in Ostrobothnia and Central Ostrobothnia.
The entire Talent Coastline ecosystem – a wonderful group of various actors – are contributing to create successful encounters between employers and skilled labor! Come and be part of it!
Work and life in Kokkola
Do you want a good job or a good life? We offer you both. Kokkola is thriving, and we have a wide variety of available jobs for different skills.
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Central Ostrobothnia is the smallest but spunkiest municipality in Ostrobothnia, it’s seasoned with internationalism and bilingualism, communality and experience. Something that isn’t small is our growing and forward-looking export industry, entrepreneurial traditions and modern businesses, distinctive and strong cultural life, as well as the great opportunities to pursue all your interests. It has always been easy for us to see beyond the end of our nose and welcome all newcomers.
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