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Clewat Oy
The team is led by Janne Saarikko, an experienced senior investment banker turned serial entrepreneur, who has founded a listed company, and been on board of a globally successful mobile service. The team is managed as CEO by Keijo Silynoja, who is both a former Olympic athlete and an experienced manager. The innovation is driven by CIO Johannes Myllykoski, a former family company manager and the operational efficiency is secured by Hannu Makel, who has with his previous company built more than 1000 gyms internationally and knows operations inside out. The commercialization of it all is the responsibility of Marko Krkkinen, who has decades of management experience in international recycling and waste management.
Clewat builds and operates multipurpose sea-cleaning vessels. Clewat is an innovative envirotech company focusing on helping the world saving the seas.
In addition to Cleansweep vessels, Clewat has developed Riverwheel river plastic cleaner, Snowhow climate-friendly Snow melters and Cleaner industrial air filtering systems based on the same flow innovation core.
Projects done in Helsinki, Kokkola and Turku in Finland. Tested in 10 countries. Coming projects in Philippines, China and Thailand.
We bring new efficiency into the fight for saving the seas. We develop and manufacture water cleaning vessels that are able to clean up garbage and microplastics from waterways. The technology of our vessel is based on the creation and utilization of water flow. Our product is a catamaran raft which, with the booms in front, collects garbage at the mouth of the vessel, where the water flow is regulated so, that various garbage and impurities end up on the vessels conveyor and further sorted into trash. By adjusting the length of the booms, the width of the area to be treated, can be increased even over a kilometer. A cleaning device developed by Clewat is one of the few concrete solutions to the marine plastic waste problem that works. We are able to collect from the water up to half a millimeter-sized particles, and at most our equipment can collect as much as 200 cubic meters of biomass per hour.
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- Your project TRL is 4 or higher
- Your project sector is in one of the 10 blue economy sectors identified for this initiative
- Your solution has a clear sustainable impact on the blue economy
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