Significant chemical industry area with access to sustainable raw-materials and synergies for Hydrogen or Biorefining Investments.

Laanila Industrial Park offers a unique production environment for example production of hydrogen or production of wide range of bio-based products ranging from biofuels, bio chemicals to higher added-value end-products.

• Kemira owned chemical industry site (T/kem)
• Land area of ~26 ha for new investments in north side of Laanila Industry Park
• Existing connections to utilities, electricity, water, steam, process chemicals etc.

Existing production in the area includes formic acid, hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, sulphuric acid, nitrogen and air gas as well as high pressure steam, heat and electricity form combined heat and power plant, as well as access to cooling water.

Several companies operating in the area:

• Taminco Finland Ltd.  / Formic Acid and Derivatives Plants
• Kemira Chemicals Ltd. / Hydrogen Peroxide and Peracetic Plants
• Air Liquide Finland Ltd. / Air Distilling Plant
• Oulun Energia / ECO and OEBIO Power Plant
• Pharmatory Ltd. / Pharmaceutical R&D and contract manufacturing
• Eurofins Ltd. / Laboratory Services§Other service companies

Industrial area, lot owned by City of Oulu

The areas of Ruskonselä and Rusko are Oulu's largest and most important concentration of industry, construction industry, electronics industry, subcontracting activities and small industry.

The area is further developed to meet the needs of space-demanding industry, warehouse operations and material sorting operations. In addition, the area will be reserved for versatile workplace activities such as offices, services and industrial activities that do not cause harm to the environment.

• Greenfield site ~36 ha available (up to 200 ha possibility)
• Zoning ready for light industry
• Electrical power: 110kV line from Leväsuo power station (1,4 km)
• Water utilities on site: Potable water supply available
• District heating network: District heating network available
• Distances
  • 9 km to Oulu Port Vihreäsaari, Bulk Harbour
  • 15 km to Oulu Port Oritkari, Container Harbour
  • 19 km from Oulu international airport.
  • 1 km nearest hospital or health care center
    • Emergency vehicle response time 5 minutes

Area will be expanded in the coming years, opportunity from tens up to hundreds of hectares.

LEVÄSUO - PERMITS AND CONNECTIONS READY FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART DATA CENTER

• Building rights 37.000 m2
• Site area 54.000 m2
• Building permits ready
• National Grid substation 400kV /110 kV onsite
• Water and wind cooling available
• Possibility to utilize waste heat

CONNECTIVITY

• Optical Fiber onsite
• Several Optical Fiber suppliers
• Dark Fiber onsite
• FICIX3 hub located 7 km from the site. Connection ready.

Contact
Tapani Niskanen, 358 400 585 383
Tapani.niskanen@finnosalo.fi

PORT OF OULU

The largest container port in the Bothnia Bay provides service in the most rapidly growing city in northern Europe. All three harbours of the Port of Oulu – Oritkari, Nuottasaari and Vihreäsaari – are open 24/7, all year round. Deep sea route with 12,5 m draft.

New land area and a new industrial site is building up in Port area. In a few years' time there will be up to 50 hectares of land with zoning suitable for manufacturing and chemical industry. Zoning process for new land area has been started.

https://ouluport.com/en/home/ 

Circular Economy Park

The largest industrial plot in Rusko industrial area. Available land area and premises for new partners operating in the fields of circular economy.

Excellent synergies:

• Area for circular industry, wastemanagement and logistics
• Highly integrated utility networks in the area
• Operations and services available in the area
• Circular economy and waste handling companies in the area

At the moment, there is about 1.5ha of building stock to be lined, also services for building business and production facilities required for your needs. Additional services on site e.g. loading and unloading equipment, such as wheeled machines and forklifts.

Excellent industrial infrastructure on site and in the surrounding Rusko area.

• Plot size 27ha, of which 15ha is free for construction, building rights approx. 140,000m2 
• Onsite 20kv electricity connection, a 110kv line runs along the eastern border of the plot
• Water and wastewater connections: 300mm drain and 110mm water pipe
• Bio gas connection from Kiertokaari on site. 
• Approval for a bio gas plant and heating plant is underway for the area
• Distances
  • 9 km to Oulu Port Vihreäsaari, Bulk Harbour
  • 15 km to Oulu Port Oritkari, Container Harbour
  • 19 km from Oulu international airport.

Since 1969 the area has hosted operations requiring environment permits, such as a Kiertokaari (local waste management company), Syklo Oy, Kuusankoski Oy, Paupek Oy, Stena and Lassila&Tikanoja.

Isape Oy / Ekopolis Oy, is circular economy company and a real estate development company that produces offices and operational areas for the use of industry operatingin the circular economy. https://www.isape.fi/

CONTACTS:
Sami Isola, CEO, Isape Oy
sami.isola@isape.fi

Process based waste treatment and disposal site

Välimaa circular economy area is a total area of about 150 hectares. Välimaa offers operating environment for several actors in the field of circular economy.

The area is located in Oulu, along Kiimingintie (mt 849), about 7 km north of Kiiminki and 28 km from Oulu city center. The starting point for the development of the area is material efficiency and development of new innovative solutions and products for circular economy.

More details: https://www.ouka.fi/oulu/valimaa

100 million euro investment opportunity – Nallikari resort has superb possibilities for developing and diversifying tourism, training and education, sports, leisure and recreational facilities.

Nallikari Resort is a beautiful seaside location, 3km from the city center, with beach, restaurant, wide range of outdoor and recreational services, and a variety of events around the year. New city plan boosts Nallikari resort’s attractiveness in tourism by enabling new services and functions and ensuring effortless accessibility with different modes of transport.

New city plan of Nallikari area includes 95 hectares with a total building area of 75,000 m2.

• Amusement Park (opportunity for investors / partners)
  • Total area ~6 ha, new building permit 6000 sqm,
  • Investment size 15M€
• Conference facilities and services (opportunity for investors / operators)
  • Building permit 8000 sqm for travel services
  • Investment size 20M€
• Holiday apartments, restaurant, leisure services (opportunity for investors / operators)
  • Building permit 8500 sqm
  • Investment size ~20M€
• Spa Hotel and Chalets; owner Capman, opportunity for operator
  • Building permit 10 000 sqm
  • More information: Pirjo Ojanperä, Capman
• New holiday accommodation
  • Building permit 2500 sqm
  • More information: Toni Lehkonen, SOK

Nallikari - Northern Riviera - Visit Oulu

Leading European centre for health and social care research, testing, training, innovation and development will be established in Oulu. Future health technology and service development will be accelerated in globally unique environment utilising latest technology and research. OuluHealth

5 segments of OYSTER:

• OYSTER Digital Health Solutions Arena (innovation and testing): Developing wireless solutions for health and social care enhances the accessibility of health services independent of time and location and enables extending specialized health care services to primary health care centers.
• International Reference Centre - Research, Development and Medical Device Clinical Trials: Integrating virtual environments into research and development accelerates the commercialisation of health technology innovations. 
• Training Centre Knoppi 2.0 – Virtual Learning Exported: Virtual training and teaching enable learning independent of time and location, scalable into a global export product. Hands-on clinical skills will be trained in virtual and mixed reality environments in the future.
• OYSTER – Commercializing Demand-Driven Innovations: Co-creation innovations in wide-ranging collaboration between the clinical environment and professionals, tech experts and infrastructure and the anchor companies enables faster commercialization and born global products.
• Facilities and Real Estate Investment Linked to the Future Hospital OYS2030: A globally unique entity, “all under one roof”: testing facilities, training and simulation facilities, digital health research and evaluation unit facilities, premises for business with supportive functions, close collaboration with ICT cluster enabling future innovations in an interdisciplinary manner.

Market Square Hotel

Oulu Market Square Hotel and a covered winter market have been designed next to the 110-year-old Market Hall. 

The hotel is planned to have four floors and 130 hotel rooms.

The covered winter market space will serve year-round market activities and provide a sheltered space for a variety of events during the winter.

OPPORTUNITY for investors and operators

Contact for more: juha.huhtanen@srv.fi 

OULU - HOME OF DATA

Oulu welcomes Data Center investors and operators to the Silicon Valley of North! We offer “one stop shop” service to help, support and advice your unique Data Center kick-off from investment phase to ramp-up. Our approachable project staff is ready and eager to help you!

Oulu is one of the leading ICT centers in the world, a start-up generator and a university town, with skilled and dedicated workforce and an effective supplier ecosystem ready to serve the forthcoming Data Centers. Power grid in the Oulu region has been built to support mission critical industries like paper mills and provides renewable power that can scale up to any data center demand. Our local power supplier Oulun Energia provides smart and green energy services and waste heat recovery solutions to companies and is a key partner in Home of Data -project.

Two Greenfield Sites for DC:

- Leväsuo: 5,4 ha, 37.000 M2 building right with fiber and electricity connections - All this ready onsite!

- Ruskonselkä: 36 ha, greenfield site. Well connected to the power grid, district heating network and natural water available for cooling. 

Find the higher grade of ICT in Oulu – join the ICTOulu movement

RadioPark - Living Lab for Everything Connected

- Complete solution for your radio-based device and service development. 

- Leading edge connectivity service available through versatile partner ecosystem. 

- Productized service packages associated with professional support.

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- World class research (6G Flagship) at your reach.

- Laboratory capacity per your needs.  

- Planned to support industry verticals needs

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Read more: https://oulu.com/ictoulu/radiopark/

For more details contact Heikki.Huhmo@businessoulu.com 

OpenFab - Business Enabler Factory for the Next Level

Based on the over a decade's work done in PrintoCent ecosystem on printed electronics and intelligence, tens of millions of investments done, OpenFab starts a new era of electronics manufacturing technologies.

The PrintoCent pilot manufacturing lines and laboratories are the heart of the operations. The pilot factory enables technology development and testing from prototyping to proof-of manufacturing and pilot scale production for early market trials. Events for innovation and training are a way to dive in and to start exploring the opportunities of Printed Intelligence.

Offering examples include:
– Pilot scale manufacturing trials
– Factory planning and construction, machinery selection
– Product technical design and device integration
– Production ramp-up support
– Quality and performance audits

Facilities at PrintoCent founding member sites are:
– VTT: MAXI pilot production, Hybrid integration, Over-moulding read more
– OUAS PrinLab: Sampo R2R printing line read more
– Oulu University: Lab scale machines and testing devices read more