SOK has opened change negotiations covering about 900 employees; up to 130 positions may be cut while the company plans to create about 60 new roles.
Diners at the new StĂĄhlberg Tulli lunch restaurant at Ă…kerlundinkatu 3 receive the first hour of parking free at the nearby Finnpark P-Tampere-talo.
Tamtron posted a €1.5 million loss in H1 as revenue fell to €23.6m; the company has launched cost cuts and acquired Teknoscale to strengthen its mobile-fleet weighing business.
NRC Group Finland has hired about 200 infrastructure professionals so far this year as it expands into rail, electrical and energy projects, including battery storage and tramway work across Finland.
Lähitapiola Pirkanmaa reported strong early‑2026 results and warned of a cluster of fires caused by rechargeable power‑tool batteries, urging safer charging practices at homes and cottages.
Former practical nurse Rauno Nevalainen enrolled at Häme University of Applied Sciences in 2023 and is retraining to become a forest engineer while completing an internship at Stora Enso.
Ståhlberg is opening two new lunch cafés in Tampere – one in Tulli at the end of August and another in Linnainmaa after renovations expected to finish in October, bringing the chain's total to 12.
Finland's university hospitals, including Tampere University Hospital, are facing an acute nationwide shortage of donor sperm this summer, leaving many public fertility patients waiting months or even up to two years for treatment.
Sandis Bar & Terrass will open on the Kauppakatu side of Sandbergin talo by Halloween, featuring a courtyard terrace seating about 400 people.
OP Pirkanmaan posted an operating profit of €46.3 million for H1 2026 as customers increasingly choose much longer mortgages, with loans of 29 years or more more than tripling in Q2.
A YLE review found hygiene problems at ice‑cream kiosks across Finland from 2024–June 2026, including a Sastamala kiosk that took years to fix cleaning issues and one kiosk receiving the worst Oiva grade.
Used apartment prices in Tampere fell 5.6% year-on-year and second-hand transactions dropped 21% in January–June, while new-apartment sales also declined.
Hippos has launched a gambling company, Hippos ATG, to boost funding for Finnish harness racing after annual funding fell from about €40 million to roughly €30 million and several race tracks face closure.
About a quarter of OP Uusimaa mortgage applicants are choosing loan terms longer than 35 years, while Finland raised the maximum mortgage term to 40 years in June – a change that lowers monthly payments but can raise lifetime interest costs.
FREIJA shareholders have appointed Joni Lukkaroinen as chair of the board to oversee a phased, large-scale eMethane production project in the Tampere region using green hydrogen and biogenic CO2.
Tays is launching two clinical trials at its PeeTU paediatric research centre to test oral baricitinib for Type 1 diabetes in 1–36-year-olds, aiming to delay onset in people with prediabetes and preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed patients.
Two housing companies in Killinkoski face bankruptcy after years of unpaid maintenance fees; residents have lost hot water and bankruptcy petitions were filed on July 10.
K-Citymarket and charity Hope ry are collecting new, unused backpacks for low-income families across Finland from July 13–26, with eight drop-off points in Pirkanmaa.
After a month in Brussels, 18-year-old Sami from Tampere says his internship showed that Finnish voices matter in EU decision-making and urges other young people to apply for internships or short Erasmus exchanges.
Tampere startup Tuleva luonto is collecting wild plant seeds and growing seedlings in a Messukylä hall to restore habitats and bolster endangered plant populations.