Antti Juhani Kiikka

Optatech Oy develops and commercializes chemical and polymer products. The firm's polymer technologies are based on proprietary polymerization and post-modification (solid state grafting, reactive extrusion, compounding, and blending/compatibilization) techniques. Optatech was founded in 1995 by Tomi Heiskanen and Christer Bergström and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

Panipol Oy (Porvoo Finland) manufactures polyaniline based inherently conductive polymers (ICP)-and polyaniline based formulations for several conductive applications. The history of ICP's dates back to 1977 when Dr Alan Heeger (as well as Dr Shirakawa and Dr MacDiarmid) discovered inherently conductive polymers in the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000 this technology received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Panipol Oy was founded and spun off from Finnish Neste Oy (today Fortum)1998. Panipol technology is based on the extensive research and development of conductive polymers done by Neste since 1982. The whole technology gathered since 1982, including large portfolio of patents, was transferred to Panipol. The technology includes work done at Uniax-joint venture of Neste and Nobel Prize winner Alan Heeger. Since the separation from Neste in 1998 Panipol has continued to apply for more patents. As of today Panipol is capable to produce polyaniline and polyaniline based products in high volumes for many existing and coming applications.