Beginning next Tuesday, the Oulu’s printed intelligence industry will get a grand kickoff with an initial investment of 15 million euros and the ceremonial introduction of the industry’s first printed intelligence pilot printer. The PrintoCent unit, based on VTT expertise and fabricated in their premises, is a unique model, representing an edge of two or three years over the global competition.
The aim of the project is to allow companies to cooperate with VTT and exploit the new technology right away without having to invest in their own production environments.
Although many of the prospective customers are large international industrial corporations, a significant amount of production and design-related jobs would be created for Finnish product and service providers. The long-term goal is to acquire control of one percent of the estimated 250 billion euro world market over the next 15 years, creating an estimated 10 000 new jobs for the Finnish export industry.