Mikkeli

Mikkeli Region Centre of Expertise strengthens the renewal and international competitiveness of Finnish industry and promotes the birth of technology intensive new business. The centre of expertise fosters applied research, product development and commercialization of thin film coating technologies and new materials for plastic composite and environmental technologies.

Mikkeli region takes part in two national clusters of the Centre of Expertise Programme:

Nanotechnology Cluster

• R&D of functional thin film coatings and their commercial applications
• Applications in several fields of technology: energy, optics, electronics and microelectronics, chemistry and mechanics, pharmacy, process industry and biotechnology

Forest Industry Future Cluster

• Design, simulation and testing of new combined structures containing plastic-wood composites
• Part of the renewal process of the Finnish wood industry combining it with the latest expertise in composite technology

Strategic Focus Areas

Functional thin film coatings

• Surface Engineering: wear resistant, protective, catalytic, functional and decorative coatings, surface modification
• Thin Film Deposition technologies: magnetron sputtering, ALD, CVD
• Surface and thin film analysis: mechanical, structural, optical properties
• Research: ASTRaL - Advanced Surface Technology Research Laboratory, a unit of Lappeenranta University of Technology
• R&D facilities: Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences
• Spearhead companies: Savcor Group, Environics

New combined structures

• Research, design, simulation and testing of new plastic composite structures
• State-of-the-art modelling methods, design expertise and advanced test equipment
• Research: Tampere University of Technology, Laboratory of Plastics and Elastomer Technology
• R&D facilities: Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences
• Spearhead companies: Exel, Ahlstrom Glassfibre and a group of advanced SMEs

Environmental applications of new nanomaterials

• Functional materials and thin films for water purification and other environmental applications
• Research: Laboratory of Applied Environmental Chemistry of Kuopio University

Development of pilot production environments and production technologies

• manufacturing processes, facilities and equipment for pilot production in order to enable and boost commercialization of new thin film and composite solutions

Links:

http://www.miktech.fi