Smart Chemistry Park
Smart Chemistry Park is an innovation platform and network for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises that bring new solutions to the bioeconomy and circular economy. Smart Chemistry Park provides premises, activities, and networks for companies seeking sustainable growth.
What Smart Chemistry Park offers to growth‑oriented companies
- An operating environment suitable for research, development, and innovation (RDI) work, including laboratory facilities
- An operating environment suitable for piloting
- Support for scaling up business operations to an industrial scale
- A network that supports the growth of companies
An Environment that supports sustainable business growth
Education and expertise: Smart Chemistry Park companies have hired chemistry and process chemistry experts who graduated in the region. Also, many of the inventions related to product and process innovations at Smart Chemistry Park companies originate from universities.
Cooperation and networking: Cooperation between various actors, such as companies, research institutes, universities, public actors, and financiers, has created an innovative business environment and network for Smart Chemistry Park.
Innovation and research: Smart Chemistry Park works closely with research institutes and universities, enabling companies to participate in product development projects that promote sustainable business. At their best, innovative solutions and technologies create competitive advantages and improve business efficiency.
Set up your business in Smart Chemistry Park
Smart Chemistry Park offers companies office and laboratory space, as well as the opportunity to scale up production to industrial levels.
Raisiokaaren Teollisuuspuisto Oy is responsible for leasing the property’s premises. Smart Chemistry Park operates the park, assists in premises negotiations, and is often the first point of contact for companies interested in moving to the park.
Please contact us if you are looking for new premises for your company or would like to become part of our innovative cooperation network!
Bio- and Circular Economy Network guides carbon footprint calculation
Smart Chemistry Park is part of Business Turku’s Bio- and Circular Economy Network.
Smart Chemistry Park companies
The core expertise of Smart Chemistry Park companies is chemistry and its various sub-fields.
Smart Chemistry Park companies are pioneers in their respective business sectors. They offer services, products, and technological expertise to many industrial sectors, such as the metal, energy, paper & packaging, construction, and chemical industries.
Smart Chemistry Park companies also include consulting firms whose expertise complements the value chain with services.
There are about ten companies located in Smart Chemistry Park.
CH-Bioforce is a developer of the world’s leading biomass fractionation technology, founded in 2016. Using the company’s technology, industrial wood chips can be separated into their three main components: hemicellulose (96% purity), sulphur-free lignin, and cellulose (98% purity).
The technology is based on deep expertise in biomass chemistry. CH-Bioforce combines advanced chemistry with innovative reactor design and process control. Compared to conventional pulp production processes, both operating costs and capital expenditure are very low. The cellulose fiber can be used as dissolving pulp, as well as in the production of paper and cardboard.
Founded in 2009, CH-Polymers supplies high-quality binders for pigment coatings as well as for the nonwovens, paints, and construction industries. The company’s binders are used in the production of technically and commercially highly competitive products.
Tailored solutions are developed based on customer needs and are created and manufactured in the company’s laboratory and at its high-quality production facility.
FP-Pigments specializes in high-performance pigments for a wide range of applications. The company’s unique opaque pigments are used in numerous applications around the world.
These high-performance specialty pigments have unique properties that allow them to replace conventional pigments while adding value-enhancing effects to end products. FP-Pigments’ products can also be used to improve the environmental profile of end products, as they can help reduce their carbon footprint. The company’s portfolio includes applications for paints and coatings, paper and board, plastics, printing inks, and other pigment-using industries.
CrisolteQ Oy, founded in 2005, is a service company specializing in the recovery of valuable substances. The company primarily utilizes valuable components from side streams of the metallurgical and chemical industries, recovering them and refining them into new products.
CrisolteQ is on its way to becoming a major industrial operator in the Finnish circular economy. Large industrial side streams can be used to recover metals such as nickel, chromium, and iron, which can then be recycled and reused as new materials in high‑technology applications. CrisolteQ is part of Fortum.
Founded in 2012, Montinutra is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel therapeutic concepts across multiple disease areas by leveraging its own and its partners’ technology platforms. Montinutra applies a new drug development strategy and emphasizes the power of collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, academia, individual researchers, and investors.
The company makes extensive use of bioactive molecules. Research results from universities and research institutes are transformed into projects and new business, ultimately leading to pharmaceutical products as well as bioeconomy‑based active molecules and natural products. Currently, Montinutra is developing a new US‑ and EPO‑patented compound for the treatment of addiction disorders, such as alcoholism. In addition, the company is developing another compound—a patented spruce extract—used for the treatment and prevention of lower urinary tract conditions.
Montinutra was established as an enabling development company. It operates virtually and in a highly agile manner, sourcing its innovations primarily from the Finnish academic community and Finnish research institutes. This approach avoids investments in in‑house laboratories or large personnel structures. A lean organization enables rapid management decisions, while relationships with both investors and buyers are built on incentive‑based models and collaborative partnerships.
SolRos Oy is a Finnish company specializing in the manufacturing of natural cosmetics. The company’s business concept is rooted in a strong commitment to naturalness and genuine raw materials, as well as in combining tradition with innovation. SolRos aims to use as many domestically sourced and locally produced raw materials as possible, along with industrial side streams.
At the core of product development is a multifunctional product line that enables customers to save time, money, space, and natural resources.
Founded in 2010, Nanol® Technologies Oy develops and manufactures nanotechnology-based lubricant additives. The name Nanol® reflects a breakthrough in lubrication technology: the creation of a nano‑thin film on friction surfaces to reduce friction and wear.
The company’s mission is to provide solutions that reduce oil and fuel consumption and extend the service life of the most critical components in engines and machinery. Its innovative, patented lubricant additive forms a protective, self-healing nano‑thin film exclusively on friction surfaces.
All products are based on an innovative technology platform that uniquely enhances engine performance by reducing friction and wear. In almost all mechanical equipment, the benefits include improved operational and energy efficiency, longer component lifetimes, and reduced harmful emissions.
PreclinApps Oy is a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing products for the preclinical drug development market.
The company’s core products are polymer-based, long-term drug delivery systems designed for preclinical animal research and veterinary use. The polymer technology enables controlled, sustained release of active pharmaceutical ingredients over periods of several weeks or even months, while also supporting improved implementation of ethical 3R principles in animal research. PreclinApps’ extensive expertise in drug development, preclinical research, and medical technology helps other companies develop clinically predictive, high-quality study models at lower cost.
Rebio Technologies is a drug development company aiming to create new and optimal solutions for long‑term drug delivery in high‑value products where the most effective delivery methods have not yet been established.
Our polymer formulation team consists of highly experienced professionals with decades of expertise in the research, development, and manufacturing of long‑acting drug delivery technologies and products. Our R&D units operate in both the United Kingdom and Finland.
We have developed an injectable drug delivery technology (SISU™) that enables sustained delivery from weeks to months for both small molecules and biological peptide and protein molecules. SISU™ technology is based on a combination of two excipients (a polymer and a biocompatible solvent) together with the active ingredient, making it easy to commercialize. The technology does not rely on prodrug approaches.
Would you like to know more about how your company can grow at Smart Chemistry Park?
Are you looking for new production, laboratory, or office space, or do you need solutions to the challenges of the circular and bioeconomy? Contact us, and we will tell you about the opportunities at Smart Chemistry Park!
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Get in touch!
Reeta Huhtinen
Account Manager, Circular and Bioeconomy
+358 40 0832488
reeta.huhtinen@businessturku.fi
How to find us
Smart Chemistry Park is located near Turku in Raisio, on the Raisio Oyj factory premises, at Raisionkaari 55, 21200 Raisio. See location on map.
Smart Chemistry Park operators collaborate with the following operators, among others:
Turku aims to be a carbon-neutral city by 2029 and climate-positive thereafter. To this end, the city is engaged in extensive cooperation with various actors and stakeholders.
Raisio is home to approximately 1,700 companies. Raisio is a regionally significant commercial center for the entire Southwest Finland region. The City of Raisio and its partners offer consulting and development services to existing companies, as well as guidance and advice to new entrepreneurs.
Åbo Akademi University has four faculties and approximately 7,000 students. The chemistry, process engineering, and natural sciences programs focus on sustainable industrial processes and products and their ability to secure our future well-being. The natural sciences examine economically, socially, and ecologically sustainable development from the perspective of the laws of nature.
The University of Turku has eight faculties and approximately 25,000 students. Research in natural sciences and technology seeks solutions to the major challenges of our time, such as supporting sustainable development, promoting health, and ensuring effective and secure digitalization.
Turku University of Applied Sciences has approximately 9,000 students. There are over 30 research groups focusing on the following topics: ICT, technology, business and competence development, health and well-being, and art and media. The research and development work carried out at Turku University of Applied Sciences addresses the problems and challenges of our time.
Novia University of Applied Sciences has over 5,000 students. At Novia, you can complete a bachelor’s degree in natural resources, business, health and well-being, technology and maritime studies, or arts and culture.
The Raisio Region Education Consortium (Raseko) offers vocational upper secondary qualifications, further vocational qualifications, specialist vocational qualifications, and continuing education.
The Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) is a leading European expert in the assessment, research, and sustainable use of mineral resources. GTK provides impartial research data and services to meet the needs of society and businesses in accelerating the transition to a sustainable, carbon-neutral world.
The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) is a research and expert organization that builds well-being and a sustainable future from renewable natural resources.
Business Finland offers a unified service path for innovation, internationalization, investments, and tourism promotion.
The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (SITRA) focuses on promoting well-being and sustainable economic growth, as well as reforming Finland.
The Chemical Industry Federation of Finland is an organization that promotes the economic and labor market interests of the chemical industry and related sectors. Its mission is to enhance the competitiveness and operating conditions of the industry.