Aker Arctic
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| Founded | December 30, 2004 |
| Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
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Key people
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Reko-Antti Suojanen, (Managing director) |
| Services | Ship design Model testing Consulting |
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| Owner | Finnish Industry Investment (holding company owned by Finnish government) (66.4%) ABB (16.8%) Aker Solutions (16.8%) |
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Number of employees
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52 (2015) |
| Website | www |
Aker Arctic Technology Inc (often shortened to Aker Arctic) is a Finnish engineering company that operates an ice model test basin in Helsinki. In addition to ship model testing, the company offers various design, engineering and consulting services related to icebreakers, other icegoing vessels and Arctic offshore projects as well as full scale trials, field expeditions and training for icy conditions. Formerly the Arctic research centre of Wärtsilä and later Masa-Yards, Aker Arctic was established as an independent company with Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, ABB and Aker Solutions as its current shareholders.
Aker Arctic and its predecessors have designed and constructed about 60% of the world's icebreakers. In addition, the company is responsible for a number of recent advances in the design of icegoing ships, such as the double acting ship and oblique icebreaker concepts.
The history of ice model testing in Finland began when Wärtsilä Icebreaking Model Basin (WIMB) was opened in a converted air raid shelter in Helsinki in 1969. The second ice test basin in the world, preceded by and modeled after the 1955-built Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in Leningrad, Soviet Union, was a result of co-operation between Wärtsilä and Esso International, initially created for developing the hull form of the icebreaking oil tanker SS Manhattan. Later Wärtsilä, already an experienced and widely recognized builder of icebreaking ships, utilized the 50-metre (160 ft) test basin for its own projects at a time when Helsinki New Shipyard was continuously building new icebreakers. In the early 1980s, a decision was made to construct a new model test facility above ground.
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