Making electric vehicle charging more accessible with Neste Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. The company refines waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and develops chemical recycling technologies and capacity to combat the plastic waste challenge. Neste is the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and aims at helping customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with its renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. Case Neste Expertise Software and Digitalization Neste’s electric vehicle charging services in Finland complement its portfolio of solutions that reduce transport emissions. Neste provides customized Electric Vehicle (EV) charging solutions for businesses, Neste Charge™ and public high power charging solution, Neste MY Renewable Charging™ for consumers. Neste partnered with Etteplan to enable more accessible and customer friendly mobile and card payments for EV charging. Neste’s first public charging station with mobile and card payment opened in Finland in December 2022. A comprehensive solution for mobile and card payment Neste serves both business and consumer customers with its expanding EV charging network and solutions. Neste identified a need for mobile payments for both customer segments and a need for card payments especially for consumer customers. “Neste chose Etteplan as the development partner due to our cooperation history on previous projects, and Etteplan’s expertise in delivering payment solutions for the fuel industry,” explains Dennis Stolt, Head of Digital Development, Marketing & Services, Neste. Etteplan’s solution for both consumer and business customers is a mobile payment feature in the Neste App, developed by Etteplan in an earlier project, with card payment enabled for consumers. The payment software was developed with integrations with two different charging station infrastructures. In addition, Etteplan Application Lifecycle Management service (Etteplan ALM) handles the maintenance of the software with 24/7 support. Altogether, the project required a wide range of expertise including service design, mobile development, UX, back-end development, software testing, and payment expertise. Neste stays on the cutting edge of development and serves its customers even better With the mobile payment feature enabled, Neste can enhance customer experience in the consumer and business segment. Also, Neste is now one of the first EV charging providers to offer a card payment option. “The entirety of the expertise needed for the project was flexibly provided by Etteplan, making the information flow and cooperation seamless, and allowing us to concentrate on our core business,” concludes Dennis Stolt.
Efficient Transportation Management and User-Friendly Booking with BusU Service Länsilinjat Oy, founded in 1939, offers charter rides, ExpressBus, local, rural, contract and service bus traffic. Länsilinjat has 320 drivers and around 160 cars. Länsilinjat belongs to the international GPN network covering almost 30 countries, as well as the CharterFinland cooperation group operating in Finland. Länsilinjat is a family business managed by the Penttilä family in the third generation. The group employs 350 employees. In 2022, the turnover of Länsilinjat group was 29 million.
S-Business received comprehensive information about the security of its service S-Business is S Group’s customer program and a charge card for companies. The card is accepted in over 1800 S Group locations and S-Business cards are used for daily purchases in more than 44 000 Finnish companies. S-Business Oy is a subsidiary owned by SOK.
Developing Autonomous Smart Wood Processing Solutions with ANDRITZ ANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries, and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors as well as for animal feed and biomass pelleting. Other important business segments include automation and service business. The publicly listed technology Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria, and has a staff of approximately 29,100 employees. ANDRITZ operates more than 280 sites in over 40 countries.
Balancing the energy grid with Fortum Spring Fortum is a European energy company with activities in more than 40 countries. Fortum provides their customers with electricity, gas, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency. Fortum wants to engage their customers and society to join the change for a cleaner world. Fortum is the third largest producer of CO2-free electricity in Europe. With approximately 19,000 professionals and a combined balance sheet of approximately EUR 69 billion, Fortum has the scale, competence and resources to grow and to drive the energy transition forward.
Simplifying intralogistics challenges through industrial digitalization with Cimcorp Cimcorp Group – part of Murata Machinery, Ltd. (Muratec) – is a leading global supplier of turnkey automation for intralogistics, using advanced robotics, material handling and software technologies. As well as being a manufacturer and integrator of pioneering material handling systems for the tire industry, Cimcorp has developed unique robotic solutions for order fulfillment and storage that are being used in the food & beverage, retail, e-commerce, FMCG and postal services sectors.
Utilizing design methods in shaping business with Vointy Vointy, a health technology start-up company from Oulu, Finland teamed up with Etteplan to bring a health and wellness application of a whole new breed to the market. Instead of focusing on personal performance metrics and competing in the fragmented and saturated market of wearable technology the application is aimed at employers and their human resources development.
