Finland Post and IT company VTT have strengthened their co-operation in research anddevelopment. The new co-operation agreement allows Finland Post to utilise VTT’s versatile
knowledge of intelligent logistics in technology projects. The first joint projects relate to RFIDand automation technologies.Finland Post is a service company that specialises in intelligent logistics and invests activelyin new technologies. Its Technology Centre co-ordinates technical development projects and focuseson the new business opportunities that the near future has to offer. Networking with researchpartners such as VTT allows Finland Post to create technologies for the future. Finland PostCorporation is interested in the new opportunities of both production technology and electroniccommunications.
VTT, in turn, offers Finland Post Corporation internationally acknowledged expertise in variousfields, including information and communications technology and innovation management.
The opportunities provided by future technologies combined with knowledge of changes in themarket serve as an excellent starting point for the development of new business. VTT finds itnatural to co-operate with Finland Post Corporation, as the company is a leader in the developmentof logistics as a user of its technologies.
The partners already have tangible results of their co-operation in fields such as RFIDtechnology, the automation of distribution and usability.