Only ten years ago it seemed unfathomable to hail a taxi in just a few moves of a fingertip on your phone and pay less than 10 euros for a ride from one side of the city to another. Neither could anyone have predicted that the company to disrupt the taxi industry all over Europe would be built by a very persistent Estonian teenager.

The Metsä Wood mill is the size of three football fields and is located in a Pärnu suburb. The production process currently takes place in three shifts, five days a week. Soon, the working week is set to encompass six days. ‘If commissions grow, it is not unlikely that the mill will work 24-7,’ says the factory’s Manager, Kaarel Tali. 

In the interview with Christoph Eichhorn, ambassador of Germany to Estonia, The digital wonderland of Estonia is explored.

Algae, various oils, turf, healing mud – natural cosmetics these days are about so much more than a fruity body scrub or a basic spa product. Mixed together with help from top-level scientific research, natural components are triumphing over the oil-based chemical products that dominated the market until now.

Telecommunication devices have been around for quite some time now. Having 4G data even in the remotest parts of the Estonian wilderness isn’t anything astonishing. But did you know that in this time of high-speed internet connections, many of the satellites flying over our heads still use age-old radio frequencies to communicate with each other?

Arvato Financial Solutions (AFS) Innovation & Development centre in Tallinn, a company of the worldwide Bertelsmann Group, which develops consumer payment solutions for e-commerce, has recently opened its new office in Telliskivi and plans to hire 30 more senior IT-specialists to grow its team to exceed 100 people.

This year Enterprise Estonia announced its support for the development of Stora Enso’s Tallinn Service Centre to the tune of 200 000 euros. Stora Enso is the leading provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden constructions and paper on global markets. Worldwide the company employs some 26 000 people and is publicly listed in Helsinki and Stockholm. But for the jobs requiring the most precision, the company comes to Tallinn. Why is that?

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) bought Estonian container terminal operator Transiidikeskuse AS from businessman Anatoli Kanajev. The contract was signed in March 2018 and a smooth transition process, which was supported by the previous owner, was completed in only 6 months.