Finland

On April 26, Canatu announced that it is investing EUR 10 million in increasing production capacity in Vantaa. The investments are aimed at the new cleanroom, production line and equipment to be built at the carbon nanotube factory.

The goal of the investments is to increase production capacity, improve the level of automation, and strengthen leadership in carbon nanomaterial and reactor products. Investments also increase employment. The work started in 2023 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024. 

The new clean room meets the ISO3 level, the strictest standard in the semiconductor industry. In an ISO 3 class clean room, there must be no particles larger than one micrometer in size. The more efficient CNT film production line, on the other hand, triples the capacity and halves the lead time.

Based on Canatu press release 

On April 29, Nokian Tyres announced that it faced additional disadvantages due to the Red Sea crisis as well as the political strikes in Finland during the first quarter of 2024. Due to the strikes in February–April, it lost in total approximately three weeks of production in passenger car tires and one week in heavy tires.

Nokian Tyre also updated that its new and the world’s first zero CO2 emission tire factory in Romania will start production in 2024. The US investment phase will also be completed, and new innovative products will be launched.

Based on Nokian Tyres press release 

Bosch HMI, a leading provider of comprehensive Human-Machine Interface (HMI) solutions, joined forces with Basemark, a leading AR development tools company, committed to accelerating immersive solutions for automotive AR experiences.

As a member of Basemark’s Rocksolid Partner Ecosystem, Bosch HMI is equipped to rapidly develop, test, and debug AR-based UI concepts and prototypes and transition them to series production at speed.

They will partner on conceptualization of in-car AR experience, and creation of tailored UX and applications, turnkey solutions like HMI Test Automation Equipment and end-to-end IoT Testing, and verification and evaluation of concepts and prototypes.

Bosch HMI and Basemark can help the automotive industry to make advances in the existing user interfaces making it future-proof. Subsequently, offering OEMs a vantage point in delivering intuitive experiences, enhanced safety features, contextualized UI/UX, and more.

(Based on Basemark press release on April 29, 2024)