- Daicel Corporation is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cellulose products, organic synthetic products, synthetic resin products, pyrotechnic products and others. It operates globally having HQ in Japan.
- Ciriot role in ongoing Daicel green transformation project is to find and prioritize applicable technologies, which could fill in Daicel technology transformation requirements.
- Moreover, we are short-listing and analyzing potential new technology development partners, whose expertise may be needed for the technology deployment at Daicel.
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R&D support, technology benchmarking: Daicel Corporation, Japan
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Market Research for Nordics region: Kuraray Corporation, Japan
- Kuraray is a Japan HQ global corporation producing specialty chemicals and materials for various industries.
- In our market research the focus was on mapping market opportunities in the Nordics for their new functional material for cosmetic products.
- Market Research was extended with a task to acquire a pilot customer for the new material.
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Local business Establishment in Finland: Welmo Inc.
Welmo Inc. Japan
- Welmo develops decision-assisted artificial intelligence services for nursing care and welfare sector.
- We supported end-to-end establishment of their Welmo Finland company, which was Welmo’s first even foreign subsidiary.
- Ciriot CEO also supported Welmo subsidiary operations in Finland in board member role.
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Helsinki PR event in Tokyo, 2019
Event organizers: Helsinki City, Helsinki Business Hub
Event: Helsinki as destination for Japanese companies in Tokyo. Host: Mayor of Helsinki, Mr. Jan Vapaavuori
Ciriot role: Japanese participants acquisition, local PR, support with event organization

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Sales Channel Expansion in Japan: Reima Oy, Finland
- Reima is the leading brand for kid’s outdoor and athleisure clothing in the Nordics.
- The project scope was to find new retail and ecommerce sales channels in Japan for Reima products.
- We short-listed best potential new channel partners and introduced selected ones for Reima overseas sales management. We also organized the face-to-face meetings for Reima and supported the discussions during the meetings.
- Additionally, we promoted Reima babybox product for Japan-wide retail chains.
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Industrial and R&D Partnerships in Japan: VTT Research
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a one of the leading multi-industry research centres in Northern Europe, which offers technology development services for companies.
- For several years, Ciriot has been connecting VTT with potential industrial size corporate clients in Japan. We have also contributed start of R&D collaboration with Japanese universities.
- Ciriot focus has been on Green Transformation related solutions, such as biobased materials and circular textiles, and their production and recycling processes.
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Local business Establishment in Finland: Hap Coveross
- Hap is an ODM/OEM producer of functional textiles and apparel. Hap leading brand in this category is Coveross.
- We supported Hap with Finland/EU market entry and executed establishment of their Coveross company in Finland.
- We supported also with market operations and partnerships.
Japanese Coveross innovation goes global via Finland | VTT News







