Netcycler To Expand To UK This Spring
Netcycler is the Finland based startup that developed an online service to help people recycle their goods. In the most basic form, it helps to do this with two people who find something else they're willing to exchange their own good for. This also works on a larger scale, where you may be giving someone else your good and receiving a good from a third person. Last week, the company announced they're opening shop in UK.
Everyone's Garbage Is ZenRobotics' Treasure
ZenRobotics is a technology startup from Finland working in an area that many would easily overlook. The company is using artificial intelligence and machine vision to sort out recyclable material from garbage. There's a lot of fantastic progress behind the concept already; they have a killer team, funding and paying customer that happens to be the largest environmental company in Europe. Let's take a look at all this in more detail.
Battery Recycler Akkuser Acts On An Expanding Market
You must have wondered what happens to the gazillions of batteries (or 200 000 tons in the EU to be more exact, to quote the Finnish environment minister) that are increasingly used in the things we play around with. Finnish expansion company Akksuer knows. We talked to CEO Jarmo Pudas about the expanding battery recycling market.
What kind of batteries do you handle and why is the way you do it unique?
Basically everything... We handle laptop and mobile phone batteries (polymer), Li-ion, Ni-Mh. We do it without chemicals, without heat and without water. We have our own factory. We have an online sorting system and use dry technology (crushing and gas treatment) to recycle the materials.
Metallkraft Attracts € 17 Million As Climate Change Capital Enters Nordic Cleantech
Norwegian company Metallkraft has a new part owner in Climate Change Capital, the UK based cleantech fund now making their first (but I imagine not last…) entry into the Nordic cleantech space. The € 200 million cleantech fund led the investment round and subscribed to € 10.3 million of the total € 17 million in convertible bonds that where issued. Current owners also took part.
