Sheets of an invest in -case in summer 2014. Hope it will actualize! Only the contact person is missing. It's our CEO Mr Vesa Sorasahi or myself.

1. Invest in Mikkeli
- City of opportunities -

2. Welcome to Mikkeli
Cleantech
Fresh air
Excellent connections
The friendliest atmosphere for entrepreneurship in
the country (measured 2013)

3. • Population 55.000 residents
• Location: eastern Finland, 200 km from
Helsinki
• Est. 1838
• Administrative and educational centre of
Eastern Finland
• Inspiring business environment and highly
developed infrastructure
• Forest and timber
• Metal, technology industry
• ICT
• Food products
• Tourism
Key features, Mikkeli I (pdf attached)

4. • The city offers companies good plots and premises
• Competitive energy and salary costs (medium wage of a metal
employee around 11 €/h)
• country’s most efficient publicly funded business services.
• The most attractive business support rate in Finland (35 % for
investments, 50 % - 80 % for other development)
• Educated and committed work force
• Ca 4500 professionals in 600 companies in the employment area
Mikkeli key features II (pdf attached)

5. Mikkeli key features III (pdf attached)
EDUCATION
• Vocational school
• Metal professionals: welders, assemblers, thin sheet metal workers
• Traditional education and apprenticeship
• Polytechnic high school
• Engineers
• Adult education
• Metal professionals
• Thin sheet metal workers
• Welders

6. DISTANCES
• Helsinki 225 km
• EU-Russia border 130 km
• St Petersburg 300 km
• 4. Kotka (port) 160 km
• 5. Stockholm 680 km
Mikkeli key features IV (pdf attached)

7. Miktech Oy
• Innovation and technology Centre
• Founded in year 1985
• Owners:
City of Mikkeli (51 %)
Private companies (41 %)
Universities (8 %)
• Mission: promoting innovations and helping companies grow
• Turnover 2,5 M€
• Employees 20
• Profound knowledge of Russian business and culture
• Help in getting funding and premises
Business support and aid in Mikkeli

8. • Pellos plywood mills of UPM-Kymmene Oyj, one of the world’s largest
companies in its field
• Savcor Group (forestry logistics and solar energy)
• Mölnlycke Health Care (hospital equipment)
• OR Group (wooden product
• ENSTO Finland Oy (electrical systems)
• Ahlstrom Glassfibre Oy (glass-fibre reinforcements)
• Versowood Group (producer of sawn timber)
• Rejlers (engineering consultancy services)
• Helprint (gravure printing plant)
• Tens of metal processing SMEs
Largest industrial companies in Mikkeli

9. o degree of industrialization 20% (share of employment)
o proximity to Russian boarder (130 km)
o proximity to next larger Russian city: St Petersburg 300 km
o proximity to Helsinki 220 km: train, car, bus, avion (airport 70 km)
o proximity (km) to sheet metal supplier Bierkühl 700 m
o proximity (km) to powder coater Bierkühl 700 m
o proximity (km) to 2nd sheet metal supplier Pelaser 65 km
o costs of production site: 6-8 €/m2 + maintenance costs
o average salary of metal worker ~ 11 €/h
o urban catchment: there is a large reserve of employees, and the
vocational school is very cooperative in educational tasks
o access to funding: easy to get public funding
o amount of funding: 35 % to investments of SMEs (best possible support
in Finland), other costs up to 80 %, e.g. training of personnel
Key facts of Mikkeli

10. - Height ca 5 m
- Office space 200 m2
- Building surface 1258 m2
- Built in 1991
- Repair works 2008
- Oil-heating, air-heating pumps
- Automated ventilation
- Heat recovery
- Can be easily divided to different
working spaces
- Rent: 8 €/m2 (+ taxes)
- The tenant takes care of the
electricity, heating, water and
maintenance of the court yard
PRODUCTION SPACE, Nostajantie 8, MIKKELI
- Alternative I
- Currently empty

11. FACADE, Nostajantie 8
Place for the other lift-door if needed
- Lift door , height 4 m
- Building in excellent
condition
- Large, asphalted yard,
easy to drive
- Owner: Oy Lifa Air Ltd
Office

12. PREMISES, Nostajantie 8
- Hall
- Office/meeting room 1 - Office/meeting room 2
- Equipped with sauna and two
showers

13. PRODUCTION SPACE, Nostajantie 8
- Alternative I
- Currently empty

14. - Automatic ventilation machinery
room
- Oil consumption ca 10.500 €/year
- Electricity costs ca 4000 €/year
PRODUCTION SPACE, Nostajantie 8
Building technic

15. - Distance from premises Nostajankatu 1:
500 m
- 6 employees at 7/2014
- 4 kw laser, table 1500 x 3000 mm
- Powder coating chamber
Subcontractor #1, Bierkühl Oy
Laser cutting and punching

16. Subcontractor #1, Bierkühl Oy
Powder painting chamber
- Possibility to invest for a larger chamber, if needed
- Bierkühl wants to know more about the production/cooperation:
sizes, weights, materials

17. Other subcontractors in Mikkeli region
Miketek Oy
- Punching machines
- Sheet metal works
- 20 emloyees
- Location 500 m from the
premises nr 1
Pelaser Oy
- 2 x 4 kW lasers
- Water cutting
- Sheet metal works
- Delivers the parts coated in accordance
with customer’s needs
- 20 emloyees
- Location 65 km / 35 min from the
premises
FSP Oy
- Finnish Steel Painting
- Powder coating
- 20 emloyees
- Location 50 km / 30 min from th premises

18. PRODUCTION SPACE, Oravinkatu 8, Mikkeli
Alternative
- Currently in use
- Ca 1000 m2
- 500 + 300 m2 can be divided in short
notice
- Height 6 m
- Bridge crane
- Possibility to build more space
- Distance from Bierkühl 7 km
- Rent ca 6 €/m2
- + energy, electricity costs
- Owner: Arimet Oy

19. Alternative
- Currently unfinished space
- Ca 1000 m2
- Works to be completed in sort schedule
- Height 6 m
- Distance from Bierkühl 3 km
- Rent 6-8 €/m2
- + energy, electricity costs
- Owner: Maamerkki Oy
PRODUCTION SPACE, Timpurinkatu 7, Mikkeli

20. Alternative - building up new premises in Mikkeli
- by public organization Naistinki Oy
- by private company, for instance, FH Invest Ltd
- Cost estimate by private company for new premises:
1. Production facilities
If 500 - 1000 m2 1.150 € / m2
If > 1000 m2 - 1.120 € / m2
2. Office facilities, round 200 m2 1.350 € / m2
3. Warm storage facilities, over 500 m2 1.000 € / m2
4. Cold storage facilities, over 500 m2 800 € / m2
5. Cold storage facilities, foundation on pillars,
walls sheet metal 600 € / m2
6. Outdoor transport area 100 € / m2
7. Lawn area and planting 50 € / m2
8. Fences and gates, 1 hectare site 50.000 €
400m fences, 2 electrical gates
Building with turnkey solution. Financing as the building proceeds. Mutual financial guarantees, with normal
procedure.
PRODUCTION SPACE

21. -two specialists working in Russia operations at Miktech Oy on daily basis
-close co-operation with Russian technology parks, universities and technology oriented companies in St.
Petersburg area, Karelia and Moscow
-highlevel connections also to other Russian regions
-own office in St. Petersburg
-Assistance in partner, dealer and / or subcontractor search in Mikkeli, South Savo region or more widely
in Finland, EU and Russia, including, for instance, preliminary inquiries for offers
-Consulting for applying for public financing (national and international), venture capital and private
investments money
-Consulting for applying and administering of RD-projects and other projects
-Practical consulting in questions related to business environment in Finland and Russia
-Start up center services and coaching (business plan, profit and loss account)
-Consulting in internationalization, modernization and development
-Tailor-made consulting based on the needs of the client
Know-how in Russia operations and in business
consulting

22. -support of Finnish companies to Russian market, the value of offers to
Russian clients approximately 1,2 million Eur this year (2014)
-10 active Russian companies as clients in establishing their company to
Mikkeli
-3 Russian firms with Finnish business ID already
-several upcoming leads from Russia in starting their business in Mikkeli
-know-how and long experience on projects with Russians on different
topics
-organization of goaching on systematic development of SME’s for Russian
and Finnish companies, organized 5 times, Globtech I - V
References of Russia operations

23. Possible partner for logistic terminal in Russia:
Logistic and Customs Terminal ”Scandinavia”in Vyborg,
Leningrad region in Russia
- Located nearby to Finnish-Russian border, distance 30 to 40 km from border crossing points Vaalimaa
Torfyanovka) and Nuijamaa (Brusnichnoe)
- The customs and logistics terminal includes:
• outdoor area designed for use as a temporary storage warehouse, it accommodates 100 commercial vehicles.
• adjacent to the open ground area of customs control zones (NTA), accommodates 210 freight vehicles.
• Covered storage space, usable area of ​​1600 m2 (refrigerators, room for items with special storage conditions)
• platform for deploying mobile inspection and the inspection of the complex (MIDK)
Recommendation for phase 2