Research and development centers

Research and product devel­op­ment are key factors for Oilon’s success. The company has excel­lent research and train­ing facil­i­ties in the city of Lahti, Finland, with every­thing required for design and engi­neer­ing, testing and exper­i­men­tal work, and dif­fer­ent kinds of train­ing courses and ses­sions. Oilon’s con­tin­u­ous product devel­op­ment and inno­va­tion is sup­ported by ver­sa­tile lab­o­ra­tory facil­i­ties, which have been equipped based on both the company’s own needs as well the require­ments of applic­a­ble product stan­dards. The company’s mea­sur­ing equip­ment is cal­i­brated and its trace­abil­ity ensured pur­suant to the EN ISO 17025 stan­dard.

To promote con­tin­u­ous devel­op­ment of heat pumps, the lab­o­ra­to­ries are equipped with a wide range of test benches. This allows the company’s engi­neers to develop automa­tion systems, func­tions, con­nec­tions and con­fig­u­ra­tions for heat pumps, as well as to improve their oper­a­tion and effi­ciency in dif­fer­ent con­di­tions and at dif­fer­ent loads. The facil­i­ties are also suit­able for inves­ti­gat­ing the behav­ior of ground-​source bore­holes at actual loads.

The company’s com­bus­tion tech­nol­ogy research and burner devel­op­ment, in turn, is sup­ported by twenty test run boilers, which range from small hot water boilers to large setups used in power plants. The lab­o­ra­tory’s equip­ment includes an FTIR flue gas ana­lyzer, suction pyrom­e­ter, para­mag­netic oxygen mea­sure­ment system, as well a range of systems for mea­sur­ing fine par­ti­cles.

One of the two research centers is also used for train­ing ses­sions and courses focus­ing both heat pumps and burners, allow­ing us to support the­o­ret­i­cal train­ing with prac­ti­cal exer­cises. Our train­ing and edu­ca­tional ser­vices cover a wide range of essen­tial topics, with an empha­sis on how to use and service Oilon prod­ucts as safely and energy-​efficiently as pos­si­ble. The aim of such train­ing is to con­stantly improve the exper­tise of domes­tic instal­la­tion, main­te­nance, and repair com­pa­nies.