EriCa celebrated the opening of the Kemira Espoo Innovation Center on January 29, 2026 at EriCa Green Chemistry Park, its home. As one comment put it: “This is where customers, technology, and science meet.”
Under the award-winning roof of EriCa stands Kemira’s global innovation hub, equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and talent to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
The opening ceremony featured remarks by CEO Antti Salminen, Mayor of Espoo Kai Mykkänen, and EVP, Research & Innovation Sampo Lahtinen. During the discussions, one point kept coming up: “Everyone in the value chain needs to collaborate. We need faster innovation cycles and commercialization.”
Walking through the seven floors on a tour, another observation from the opening speeches felt particularly on point: “The new innovation center is an investment in talent development. People bring spaces to life. Otherwise, they are just empty walls and equipment.”
Mayor Mykkänen emphasized that EriCa and the Kemira Innovation Center are part of Green Line, a deep tech hotspot where Finland builds local solutions to global problems.
During the tour guests found out that today Kemira’s solutions help provide clean and safe water for 400 million of people worldwide. But how do we help everyone access it? After all, making water dirty is free, cleaning it is not. That is one of the shared challenges for us.
EriCa Green Chemistry Park is happy to be part of the journey. Congratulations to Kemira and the entire team for the official opening.
