Kempele can offer firms the best-located vacant industrial sites in Northern Finland. Planning permission has already been granted for almost 200 000 sq.m. of floor area. The industrial zones are situated beside the main thoroughfares and are for the most part still awaiting development.

The industrial zones are a capital which the local authority has resolved to use wisely in order to strengthen industry and entrepreneurship in its own district and throughout the Oulu Region. The people of Kempele are looking to the future.

As Kari Ahokas, Executive Director of the District Council, puts it, Kempele offers excellent possibilities for locating businesses at the gateway to Oulu, beside the road from the airport or close to the motorway. Either position can give a firm the visibility it needs.

The people of Kempele have realized that decisions in the economic and business sphere have to be made quickly, and they waste no time over the necessary formalities for purchasing land and obtaining building permission.

Kempele's development strategy is also aimed at the future. Its active attitude towards business and industry has been duly noted, and one independent economic research organization has named the district as the best in the Oulu Region when it comes to the promotion of economic activity and the planning of building developments.

Kempele has an image that places it among the elite in Finland.

One thing that Kempele is striving for is international business, and with this in mind it is most interested in hi-tech businesses that are innovative and can provide employment for its well-educated young people.

The local authority also works in close cooperation with others in the Oulu Region, as this can yield many extra advantages.

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