/INS. Pankaboard, a leading Finnish specialty cartonboard producer, will open an own sales office in Russia to strengthen its local presence in the market. In addition to Russia, the office will serve the CIS markets as well.

/INS. Viessmann introduces a new solution for retailers to sell both fresh and packaged groceries. SOFIE, the new double-decker counter has been developed in cooperation with a leading food retailer to offer new options in presenting food. As a result, the customer can increase grocery sales, create totally new product display concepts, and improve the in-store efficiency.

/INS. Viessmann introduces a revolutionising innovation for the sales of frozen food – Iconic, the semi-vertical freezer. Today, a shopper spends on average only 20 seconds in the frozen food area and food retailers have no real alternatives to improve the shopping experience and attractive product displays with the current freezer cabinets. Iconic creates totally new opportunities for retailers to tackle these challenges and increase the profitable frozen category sales.

/INS. Viessmann introduces a new multideck innovation for the sales of chilled food – e-Visio. Rapidly changing shopper demographics and increasing access to technology have led to changes in the current retail formats. For example, due to e-commerce, store sizes are getting smaller but at the same time the grocery offering is becoming wider. When high display volume is needed in a small floor footprint, e-Visio is the right solution.

/INS. Viessmann has launched two highly energy-efficient remote multidecks on the market, open multideck e-Ventus and e-Novus, multideck with doors. Energy efficiency has been taken to a completely new level with a breakthrough innovation, the e-ncore technology (patent pending).

Viessmann's product range now includes innovative system solutions for the food retail industry /INS. The Viessmann Group, one of the leading international manufacturers of system solutions in heating, air conditioning and cooling technology, will be exhibiting at Euroshop 2014 with an extended range of products and services. In addition to cold rooms for trade and industry, the company is now offering innovative, high-efficiency refrigeration systems for food retailers.

/INS. (UPM, Helsinki, 20 February 2014, at 9:30 EET) - The Biofore Concept Car, a unique, futuristic street-legal vehicle demonstrating the use of renewable biomaterials in the automotive industry, will premiere at the 84th Geneva International Motor Show, March 6-16, 2014. The car is designed and built by next generation of talent from Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and showcases the versatile use of UPM’s innovative biomaterials.

/INS. PankaPlex, which is designed and widely used in food service applications, has now been granted the demanding compostability certificate for the substances between 190 and 240 gsm. The tests were conducted and successfully approved by the third party ISEGA Laboratory according to the European norm EN 13432 (“Packaging, Requirements for Packaging recoverable through composting and biodegradation”). The norm defines the test program, conditions and the assessment criteria, which the compostable packaging has to meet.

/INS. One of the largest whey powder production plants in Finland recently increased its production by more than 10 per cent without having to invest in any hardware or use more energy in the process. The production plant was able to do this solely by implementing Neste Jacobs’ NAPCON® Suite’s applications for advanced process control (APC) to optimize the critical and energy intensive last stage of the production process.

/INS.Konecranes South Africa was commissioned to erect the main turbine hall cranes for the three new Eskom power generation plants in South Africa. Medupi and Kusile are the two latest coal-fired power stations from Eskom, and Ingula is its most recent hydroelectric power plant. Altogether, four 120/50t cranes and two 265t overhead cranes were installed at these power stations.