Cooperation

Our new research project ‘’ALL-IN for Plastics Recycling’’ at its start phase

17.07.2020 Cooperation, Projects, Research

The PLASTin research project is established for next 2 years to together with wider consortium to develop systemic, and environmentally optimized recycling concepts. The project is focusing on the new knowledge gained about recycling processes and technologies such as sorting, pretreatment, mechanical and chemical treatment and reject handling, and about system level understanding, allowing improved business opportunities based on recycling. The project will focus on certain challenging plastic waste fractions,…

DIGIMANU – Digital och fysisk tillverkning

07.04.2020 Cooperation, Education, Projects, Research

Arcadas forskningsmässa Färdig för framtiden – Future Ready måste skjutas upp till 31.3.2020 och hållas online på grund av den rådande krisen. Trots den snabba omställningen var det en mycket lyckad mässa och jag vill passa på att gratulera arrangörerna för ett utomordentligt bra arbete. På forskningsmässan presenterade Prefekten (Institutionen för Energi- och materialteknologi) Mirja Andersson projektet DIGIMANU. Projektets namn är en förkortning av den engelska termen Digital Manufacturing, som…

PlastExpo Nordic 2020 at Messukeskus, Helsinki

11.03.2020 Cooperation, Events, Projects

Despite all the worries and uncertainties with epidemics/pandemics the leading industrial events in Northern Europe at Messukeskus Expo and Convention Center Helsinki 11–12 March 2020 took place. The trade events for the packaging, food and drink, and plastics industries – PacTec, FoodTec and PlastExpo Nordic – brought together industry professionals at Messukeskus in Helsinki. Arcada UAS organised booth at PlastExpo Nordic fair area hosted by 4 students from engineering study…

Learning from Scratch

17.01.2020 Cooperation, Education, Projects

Owen Kelly (D. Phil), Principal lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS In November 2019 I reported about a project that Irma Sippola and I started and which we call Snowcastle Valley. As part of this I have committed myself to teach eleven teenage girls and women, and five teenage boys, all school dropouts living below the poverty line, to code using the Scratch programming…

Sju frågor till Arcadas nya bibliotekschef

20.11.2019 Cooperation

Arcadas långvariga bibliotekschef Maria von Hertzen gick i pension i höst. I denna intervju berättar hennes efterträdare Heini Oikkonen-Kerman om sig själv och sin vision för biblioteket. (Heini är klädd i helsvart på bilden) Vem är du? Jag är en 36 år gammal tvåbarnsmamma, och har nyligen börjat jobba som bibliotekschef vid Arcada. Det är fint och spännande med full rulle i både arbets- och familjeliv! Vad gjorde du innan du började på Arcada? Mitt intresse för…

The NURED Final Seminar – WELCOME!

30.09.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events, Projects

Dear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…

Students get hands on experience spraying polyurea

13.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

As the final lab exercise on the Surface Properties course, our materials engineering students last week visited Teknos’ industrial testing facility in Helsinki. Chemist Sami Kivi instructed us on the science and engineering behind paints and coatings, then took us to their spraying building where everyone had the opportunity to spray polyurea coating. It is a waterproof polymer coating that cures rapidly, and due to its toughness and elasticity is…

Largest waste water treatment plant in the Nordic countries

13.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

Our materials processing students on the Sustainable Engineering course were on the move again today to Viikinmäki waste water treatment plant in Helsinki. We went underground through the largest treatment plant in the Nordic countries, which processes the wastewaters of around 800,000 residents as well as the wastewaters of the region’s industry. We learned about the different treatment stages of screening, sedimentation, aeration and biological filtration, and about the current…

Where is Helsinki’s electricity and heating generated?

09.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

This was a real eye-opening excursion for our engineering students, many of whom had lived in Helsinki for years unaware of the huge energy infrastructure under our feet! We visited Helen’s Salmisaari power plant in the Ruoholahti area of Helsinki. It is a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, where the share of renewable energy is increased by burning wood pellets together with coal. We learned about the challenge of…