Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Riihimäki old power plant

The Riihimäki old power plant is located in the center of the city (Kauppala, 1960).

Riihimäen Lasi was an important manufacturer of glass a few decades ago.

It's also a cross-road for train connections north and south, east and west.

The waste management company Ekokem is located in Riihimäki.

Ekokem is a leading waste management and recycling company looking for opportunities abroad.

Koskisen sawmill in Järvelä

Koskisen sawmill in Järvelä is one of the largest private (family owned sawmills).

The sawmill is located close to the Järvelä railway station.

Koskisen Oy does have a Biograte bioenergy plant, I guess.

You can see the smoke from the biofuel fired bioenergy plant.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Wood Chips from Belarus

Wood Chips from Belarus (natural moisture)

Hello everybody,  We are reviewing our contracts for the following moths .
From end of January up to 15 000 tons/monthly of wood chips are available from Belarus.
If your company is interested, please write us on info@grinvich.eu.

Source: Linkedin

Thursday, January 05, 2012

We have to Network


We've to Network
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel
Invest in your future: start Networking. Learn to use technology in your office and while working while on the road.

Save money and time through mastering skills for efficient collaboration and open learning.

The cyberspace is often a confusing cocktail, like moving to a new country, but learning to work creatively in global expert teams helps to solve problems faster and more efficiently.

You're also able to spot new opportunities in unknown places destinations and business fields.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year 2012


Happy New Year 2012
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel
Happy New Year 2012. The Year 2011 has been a great year for us.

We've more time and resources for new things. As an example: learning Spanish language.

I used to travel in South America for business without any basic knowledge of Spanish or Portugeese.

Learning is a life-long process. Spanish is now on our agenda. Have a great new year.

Friday, December 09, 2011

Service Design


Service Design
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel
Service Design. Let's take a closer look at RCM. Wikipedia teaches:

Reliability Centered Maintenance, often known as RCM, is a process to ensure that assets continue to do what their users require in their present operating context.

It is generally used to achieve improvements in fields such as the establishment of safe minimum levels of maintenance, changes to operating procedures and strategies and the establishment of capital maintenance regimes and plans.

Successful implementation of RCM will lead to increase in cost effectiveness, machine uptime, and a greater understanding of the level of risk that the organization is presently managing.

Let's look at Reliability-centered Maintenance as a process to establish the safe minimum levels of maintenance. RCM starts with the seven (7) questions below, worked through in the order that they are listed:
  1. What is the item supposed to do and its associated performance standards?
  2. In what ways can it fail to provide the required functions?
  3. What are the events that cause each failure?
  4. What happens when each failure occurs?
  5. In what way does each failure matter?
  6. What systematic task can be performed proactively to prevent, or to diminish to a satisfactory degree, the consequences of the failure?
  7. What must be done if a suitable preventive task cannot be found?

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Water


Water
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel
The World Water Week is an interesting event. I've been following it from a distance since the '90s.

The Stockholm Water Front - A forum for global water issues No. 3, November 2010  - is now on my desk.

I'm reading a the retrospect of 2010 World Water Week.

One of the themes: The Effects of Industrial Pollution on Ecosystems and human Well-Being.

The Stockholm story makes me think about the importance of water.

Paris


Paris
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel
Paris, Champs Elyse, France in retrospect: food and water are essential ingredients for life on earth.

What happens if we pollut the rivers and lakes?

Eating poisoned food can't be the sustainable goal for new industrial investors.

We can learn a lot from past mistakes in the Forest Industries.

I will be writing short stories about the implications and effects of investments in mining activities in Finland.