The Savonlinna region boasts top-level expertise in the main buiness operations related to technology, the forestry insustry, the electro-technological industry and investors are welcome to participate in its various development projects. The growing tourism cluster also offers productive targets for investment. You will find several interesting investment opportunities for investors and buinesses in the Savonlinna Invest In' programme.

　　Business introdution in Savonlinna

　　Technology

　　Technology is one of Savonlinna’s target industries. The main products and services designed and manufactured in Savonlinna to the international markets includes equipment for the chemical forest industry, water treatment and environmental technology, automation, metal parts manufacturing, composites, ICT, electricity distribution systems as well as the electro-technological industry.

　　Forest industry

　　The largest concentration of mechanical forestry industry in Europe operates from Savonlinna. Metsä Group, Punkaharju Plywood Mill and Kerto-Wood factory manufacture specialist veneers as well as veneers and beams that serve as a replacement for metal. UPM Plywood Mill in Savonlinna specialises in long and usually large veneers, which are supplied to the automotive industry and the like. Product development is intensive and ongoing. Also some saw mills and SME’s manufacturing wooden products operate in Savonlinna.

　　Manufacture of equipment and engineering industry

　　The global expertise of the Andritz group centres on the manufacture of pulp fibre washers and sorters, amongst other things and the group is concentrated in the Savonlinna region. The Andritz Savonlinna engineering plant has manufactured DD washers for the world's largest pulp factories in South America and Asia and will deliver the main equipments to the new bioproduct factory owned by MetsäFibre in Äänekoski. This top-level expertise in the manufacture of equipment for the pulp and paper industry also provides employment to Saimatec Engineering, which manufactures paper roll wrapping systems, as well as other sub-contractor plants in the region. For the pulp-processing element of the business, Savonlinna also features MAMK Fiberlaboratory, which carries out research into the optimisation of refining processes and new equipment solutions in conjunction with Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences and Lappeenranta University of Technology. Wetend Technologies Ltd of Savonlinna represents one of the most significant new innovations in paper and board industry. Aquaflow Oy – the part of the global Veolia Water Technologies – design and deliver water and sludge treatment systems for the global forest industry and also for the other industries and municipalities in Baltic Sea region. A significant group of growing metal working firms are also located in Savonlinna. The good example of this specialized know-how is Joros Oy – the biggest metal pipe systems manufacturer in Finland.

　　Electro-technological industry

　　All the equipment relating to the supply of electricity, such as transformers and substations, are designed and manufactured in Savonlinna. The product home and production plants for the largest domestic substation manufacturer, Norelco OY, are situated in Savonlinna.

　　Incredibly powerful industrial computers and measuring equipment are manufactured here by Control Express Finland OY, as is the world’s leading communication equipment, Savox Communication. 3K-Factory of Electronics serves as a support for the equipment manufacturing and new product development and product tests.

　　Research and product development

　　The development of pulp technology, new innovations in bioprocessing, optimisation in the use of smart materials and new innovations in water treatment all offer interesting opportunities to the industry.