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market in 2008. One-year later the company's turnover was one million Euros and
the company had 30 employees. In the 2010 respective values were €3.3 million
and 50 employees. This year (2011) the company will have a turnover of €7
million and employees 60. Currently the company has installations on ca. 100
vessels (cruise, container, tanker, bulker, ropax). Total annual savings in fuel
corresponds ca. $20 million and 100,000 t of CO 2 .
For further information, please contact:
Aki Luukkainen, VP, Marketing and Operations
Eniram Oy, Tel. [phone],
aki.luukkainen(at)eniram.fi
www.eniram.fi
11.1.1 Canatu Oy
Nanobud revolutionises car control
Car dashboards will become touch screens in the future. Today this may sound
like utopia, but the Finnish company Canatu Oy has already developing technol-
ogy that will make it possible. In 2006, a new kind of carbon structure, the
nanobud, was discovered in the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto
University Schools of Technology). It combines the properties of fullerenes and
carbon nanotubes providing new interesting functionalities. Canatu makes carbon
nanomaterials which enable highly transparent, conductive and flexible films.
''The original invention was a kind of diamond, so we further developed the
material and product properties''. ''One potential use is touch sensors, because this
nanobud film is flexible and thus allows us to design sensors in a more innovative