5/2012 KEMISPECIAL ISSUE Finnish ChemicalA Magazine MEGATRENDS Create Mega- opportunities Uusi Nicolet FTIR iS50 Helppokäyttöisyys CHEMICAL Monipuolisuus INDUSTRY Still Going Strong BUILDING A Sustainable Chemistry Future THE NEXT Generation of Bioscientists – Lost or Found? www.hosmed.fi Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition, and high-tech materials. In Finland we market over-the-counter products, prescription medicines, tools for monitoring diabetes therapy, crop protection agents and control substances, and industrial materials and chemicals. Our pharmaceutical production plant in Turku focuses on polymer-based drug delivery technology and exports medicines to over 100 countries. Finland is also a base for research & development and worldwide clinical trials. Bayer’s regional headquarters are located in Espoo, Finland. Our region comprises Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. www.bayer.fi Bayer_kemia-lehti_A4_110512_ah.indd 1 16.5.2012 8.51 CONTENTS • SISÄLLYS 6 Megatrends Create 59 KEEMIKKO Megaopportunities Tyhjäkäyntiä Timo Leppä 60 VIHREÄT SIVUT 10 Steady Production Growth 66 AJANKOHTAISTA in Chemical Industry Voiko lainsäädäntö johtaa Simo Pinomaa innovaatioihin? 14 Towards Long-Term Climate Väittely Reachistä jatkuu Objectives through Kimmo Heinonen Energy Efficiency and Emission Trading 68 UUTISIA Aimo Kastinen and Juha Pyötsiä 73 TUTKIMUKSESSA Scanstockphoto 18 The Chemical Industry TAPAHTUU Hanging on to 76 Keskiajan kirjantekijät High Quality of Skills olivat myös kemistejä Riitta Juvonen Arja-Leena Paavola 22 Innovation Funding 79 NAISET JA KEMIA Overcoming the Finland has been in the forefront for Émilie du Châtelet Sustainability Gap biobased fuels. Ongoing projects loistaa yhä Mika Aalto foretell that the Finnish chemical parrasvaloissa 26 Patents Bring Protection to industry will gain from changes in Sisko Loikkanen Biotechnology Inventions energy trends. (p. 6) Sisko Knuth-Lehtola and Outi Virtaharju 30 Building a 44 Industrial Renewal Brought about by Sustainable Bio-based Platform Chemistry Future Chemicals in an Uncertain Europe Ali Harlin Rodney P. Townsend 46 Renewing Finnish Industry through Materials Research Markku Heino and Markku Lämsä 48 The Plastics Industry Producing New Solutions Vesa Kärhä 50 The Rubber Industry Harva tutkija nousee yleisön suosikiksi Views Cautiously on the oopperalavalla. On osuvaa, että sen Positive Side tekee Émilie du Châtelet, joka ylitti Tuula Rantalaiho rajoja jo 300 vuotta sitten. (s. 79) 53 Paint and Printing Ink Industries Exports on a Brisk Rise 80 PIENI SUURI NANO Aimo Kastinen Nanopinta tallentaa tiedon 56 Industrial Minerals and Rocks Berner Oy Maija Pohjakallio Shadowed by Economic Hair care products are the largest 81 NÄKÖKULMA sector in the Finnish cosmetics and Uncertainty Kala ja kuolema hygiene market. (p. 34) Markku J. Lehtinen Anja Nystén 34 No Real Surprises in 82 G. A. Serlachiuksen ura alkoi Rohtopuodin Cosmetics and rojunkeittäjänä Detergents Pekka T. Heikura Eeva-Mari Karine 86 Biojätti Brasilia 38 Today’s Pharmaceutical hamuaa lisää kemistejä Research Creates Saila Seppo Tomorrow’s Drug Therapies Mia Bengtström 88 Näytteenotto on ympäristömittausten a ja o 42 The Future Generation Marja-Leena Rapinoja ja of Bioscientists Marja-Leena Kuitunen Lost or Found? Carmela Kantor-Aaltonen 90 ULKOMAILTA 92 HENKILÖUUTISIA Kun Gustaf Adolf Serlachius oli 15-vuotias, työelämään tutustuminen 96 TULEVIA TAPAHTUMIA tarkoitti ankaraa kuria ja 15-tuntisia 97 SEURASIVU päiviä. Sitkeä yrittäjä uurasti apteekeissa yli 20 vuotta ennen 98 KEMIAA KOKO ELÄMÄ harppaustaan paperidynastian Polkupyörä tulevaisuudesta perustajaksi. (s. 82) Gösta Serlachiuksen taidesäätiö Jari Kettunen 4 KEMIA 5/2012 LEADER September 4, 2012 KEMIKA e mi Vol. 39 Coden: KMKMAA ISSN 0355-1628 Toimitus • Redaktion • Office People behind success Pohjantie 3, FIN-02100 Espoo puh. +358 400 578 901 Finland’s oldest operating paint factory, Tikkurila Oyj, celebrates its faksi +358 9 3296 1520 th [email protected] 150 anniversary this autumn. What is the secret to its vitality? Päätoimittaja • Chefredaktör • Editor-in-Chief The people, says Kirsti Manninen, the author of the recent DI Leena Laitinen +358 40 577 8850 corporate history of Tikkurila. [email protected] When the company’s paint products were launched in the 1920s, Toimituspäällikkö • Redaktionschef • Managing Editor the chemist Ragnar Holmström and office manager Albin Sandström Päivi Ikonen +358 400 139 948 [email protected] spared nothing in their marketing efforts. It was possible to see Taitto • Layout this couple at handicraft auctions of master painters’ wives, where K-Systems Contacts Oy they bought boxfuls of tablecloths and socks for the pleasure of Päivi Kaikkonen +358 3 714 1614 [email protected] the ladies, while simultaneously preparing the ground for future Sihteeri • Sekreterare • Secretary purchases by the painting firms. Irja Hagelberg +358 400 578 901 One of those who found her place at Tikkurila was Tamara [email protected] Alexejev, a refugee from two wars, having moved from Latvia to Vakituinen avustaja • Permanent medarbetare Vyborg in 1915 and ending up in the Helsinki area in 1944 with the • Contributing Editor Sanna Alajoki +358 40 827 9727 Karelian evacuees. Without feeling sorry for herself, she initiated the [email protected] Christmas collections for needy children and the elderly, which still Ilmoitukset • Annonser • Advertisements continues within the company. [email protected] The fact that Tikkurila is one of the best-known brands in Myyntipäällikkö • Forsäljningschef • Sales Manager Kalevi Sinisalmi +358 44 539 0908 present-day Russia can be accredited to Pirkko Ikonen. When [email protected] the company’s eastern trade collapsed along with the Eastern Tilaukset • Prenumerationer • Subscriptions bloc in the early 1990s, exports manager Ikonen was the first to puh. +358 400 578 901, faksi +358 9 3296 1520 recognise the potential of the consumer market and carried through [email protected] an unprecedented campaign on Russian national television, buses Tilaushinnat Kotimaassa 89 euroa (kestotilaus 79 euroa), and trolleys. muut maat 120 euroa These and other stories in the book speak for the most important Kouluille 45 euroa, www.aikakaus.fi basis of a successful company, the workers—capable men and Prenumerationspris i Finland 89 euro, övriga länder 120 euro women, who do not hesitate to grasp the challenges and show what Subscription price (out of Finland) EUR 120 they are capable of doing. Irtonumero/Lösnummer/Single copy EUR 15 Energetic workers are complemented by a responsible (special issue 5/2012 EUR 19) management. In the turmoil of negative news and personnel Osoitteenmuutokset Suomen Kemian Seura reductions there is every reason to highlight another puh. +358 10 425 6300, faksi +358 10 425 6309 Tikkurila employee, the former executive [email protected] director Raimo Piironen. He led the Kustantaja • Utgivare • Publisher company through the 1990’s Kempulssi Oy Toimitusjohtaja • Verkst. direktör • Managing Director depression years without a Leena Laitinen single dismissal or lay-off, an Pohjantie 3, FIN-02100 Espoo achievement that will be long puh. +358 40 577 8850 [email protected] remembered. Toimitusneuvosto As reasoned by Piironen • Redaktionsråd • Editorial Board at that time, the workers Laboratoriopäällikkö Susanna Eerola, Roal Oy constitute a company’s Toimitusjohtaja Saara Hassinen, SalWe Oy Professori Matti Hotokka, Åbo Akademi capital and the best Toimituspäällikkö Päivi Ikonen, Kemia-Kemi means to attain better Tutkija Helena Laavi, Aalto-yliopisto times. Such capital is not Päätoimittaja Leena Laitinen, Kemia-Kemi Professori Jan Lundell, Jyväskylän yliopisto to be wasted. Apulaisjohtaja Juha Pyötsiä, Kemianteollisuus ry Professori Markku Räsänen, Helsingin yliopisto Tiedotuspäällikkö Sakari Sohlberg, VTT Aikakauslehtien Liiton jäsenlehti Leena Laitinen Keskipainos 5 100, erikoisnumeroilla 500–3000 kpl:n lisäjakelu. Karolliina Ek Karolliina Forssa Print, Forssa 2012 ISO 9002 5/2012 KEMIA 5 Megatrends Create Megaopportunities Megatrends of the world harbour great opportunities for the Finnish chemical industry. Timo Leppä Finland has been in the forefront for biobased fuels and on- going projects foretell that the Finnish chemical industry will gain from changes in energy trends. Scanstockphoto 6 KEMIA 5/2012 Megatrends are shaping our world in a Our plastics industry companies have Shale gas reserves are examined significant way and with an unforeseen long played an active role in building and globally and safe extraction technologies speed. Major changes in the population renewing water and waste water piping are developed for them. Poland, France volume and structure combined with systems in fast growing markets. The and Norway have the largest shale gas shifting consumption patterns produce Finnish paint companies are leading the reserves in Europe and development of vast changes that are reflected in our way in efficient use of tinting systems. efficient and safe use of chemicals in life. extraction technologies is crucial for this Changes are always linked with Energy mix raw material. challenges, but also with new opportun- is changing The Finnish chemical industry together ities. Many megatrends harbour big with Finnish universities and research opportunities for the chemical