Customer story
Improving the safety and sustainability of Finnish and European mobility
"Collaboration with Spinverse has been straightforward and productive. It is always a pleasure to work with highly skilled and experienced professionals."
-Teemu Soini, Vice President, Innovations & Development, Nokian Tyres.
Customer story in numbers
20
M€
5
Years
100
Estimated number of partners
Funding instrument
Business Finland Veturi Challenge
Led by Nokian Tyres, the FUTUREPROOF research, development and innovation programme aims to confront the key challenges of future mobility through solutions related to for example the digitalisation of tires and traffic, sustainable product lifecycle and advanced manufacturing technologies.
Key challenges
The FUTUREPROOF programme aims to respond to challenges such as climate change and increasing vulnerability of the global value chains with innovations across business, process, and technical domains.
How we reached the goals
A team of Spinverse key experts helped Nokian Tyres to design the comprehensive FUTUREPROOF programme plan including, for example, well-defined targets, identifying of key partners, concrete work plan for the leading company and roadmap guiding the joint development with the ecosystem. This resulted in successful outcome and ecured funding in the Business Finland Veturi funding challenge for leading companies.
Key takeaways
Nokian Tyres’ FUTUREPROOF programme consists of four main themes: Future Mobility and Business, Sustainable Tire Lifecycle, Digital Foundation and Advanced Manufacturing. The programme cross-links several industries and the ecosystem being built brings together a highly multi-disciplinary group of companies and research organisations from many fields.
Impact of the project
Improving the safety and sustainability of Finnish and European mobility, reducing emissions throughout the value chain, developing advanced driving solutions for on and off-road mobility, building resilient supply chains, developing advanced manufacturing and accelerating the implementation of Industry 5.0. The programme is also estimated to create hundreds of new jobs in Finland by 2034.
Photo: Nokian Tyres.