What are the Finnish companies in China?

The details are as follows:

1. Nokia Corporation

In the 1950s and 1970s, Nokia began to carry out general product trade in China. 1985, it set up an office in Beijing. 1987, it began to invest in China and set up factories. 1993, it was the first one to launch the GSM phone in China. 1997, it delivered the first GSM 1800 network to China. 1998, it set up the R&D center in Beijing. 1998, it invested in China. Nokia was the first company to launch GSM telephony in China. 1997, Nokia delivered the first GSM 1800 network to China. 1998, Nokia China Research and Development Center was established in Beijing.

In August 2005, Nokia opened its 3G R&D center in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and in June 2006, Nokia Networks and Siemens Communications and Information merged to form Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia has several production sites, R&D centers and offices in China, which is Nokia's largest market in the world. 

2, Stora Enso (Stora Enso)

Started to export paper to China in the 1950s, and began to set up sales companies in China in the mid-1980s. Currently there are six sales offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing and Guangzhou. Investments in China include Suzhou Zixing Paper Co, Ltd, which produces high-grade coated paper without groundwood pulp; Shandong Stora Enso Huatai Paper Co, which produces supercalendered paper;

Hangzhou K?ncke Warren Tube Co Ltd and K?ncke Tube (Foshan) Co Ltd, which produces high-grade cores of paper tubes for industrial use. In addition, the company is working on a joint venture with the Summit Group to build a forest-pulp-paper integration project in Beihai, Guangxi.    

3. UPM-Kymmene Group

In 1996, it set up a sales office in Shanghai, and in 1999, it set up a representative office in Beijing, and acquired the shares of Asia-Pacific Paper Changshu Paper Mill in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, and renamed it UPM-Kymmene Paper (Changshu) Co. In the same year, Raflatac (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai to produce paper and film self-adhesive products.

In September 2005, the second phase of the Changshu paper mill expansion project was completed and put into production, and in April 2007, a research and development center and a label paper production plant were set up in Changshu. 

4, Metso Corporation (Metso Corporation)

Since the 1950s, began to develop business activities with China. 1989 and Xi'an Paper Machinery Factory joint venture established Xi'an Paper Machinery Company Limited, and has a maintenance center in Wuxi.

Expanded and accelerated the pace of investment and establishment in China after the 90's. Acquired all the shares of Shanghai Chenming Paper Machinery Co. in 2006, which mainly produces narrow shaped paper and cardboard machinery as well as drying oven outlet assemblies for the Chinese market. At present, 17 manufacturing enterprises or offices have been established in China***. 

5. KONE GROUP

In 1998, KONE Group set up its first factory in China in the high-tech industrial park of Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, producing machine-room-less elevators, elevators with small machine rooms, as well as escalators and moving walks. in October 2003, it constructed the second phase of the factory. in June 2005, it set up a joint venture in China to establish KONE HUAZHI ELEVATOR INDUSTRY CO. Giant Tongli Elevator Co. 

6. W?rtsil? Corporation

W?rtsil? China Co., Ltd. was established in China in 1991, and currently has offices in Beijing and Dalian, with investments in Zhenjiang CSIC W?rtsil? Propeller Co. Ltd. (2006) and Qingdao Qiyao W?rtsil? Ling Chong Lin Shan Marine Diesel Engine Co.

There is also technology licensing cooperation with Chinese companies in China, with major customers such as Dalian Marine Diesel Engine Factory, Hudong Heavy Machinery Co Ltd, Yichang Marine Diesel Engine Factory and Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industry Group. 

7, Outotec Group of companies (Outotec Oyj)

From the 1960s began to provide technology for China's metal industry, set up a representative office in Beijing in 1994, set up a branch in Shanghai in 2004, mainly to China's non-ferrous metal industry to provide related equipment and technical services.

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