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And before that, everyone's reaction was: "Wait, isn't Nokia a tire company?"

• HelloRipley 11y ago
  Rubber boots.
  • ptaipale 11y ago
    And before that, wood pulp and tissue paper. The name of the company comes from a river which is the location of that wood pulp mill (sold out by Nokia over 20 years ago).
    • HelloRipley 11y ago
      Isn't nokiankoski where someone mixed up the sewage in / drinking water out lines?
      • ptaipale 11y ago
        Just the town of Nokia. In 2007 it turned out that years ago, someone had designed a stupid arrangement at the wastewater treatment facility where a freshwater pipe was used to flush the sewage side. But if a maintenance man left the tap on, and put the sewage process going, some of the sewage would go backwards, into the freshwater side. A couple of thousand people were infected by norovirus or campylobacteria. Highly unusual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_water_supply_contamination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_water_supply_contaminati...
• matco11 11y ago
  That's Nokian Tyres.
  • Nullabillity 11y ago
    Same company. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Tyres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Tyres : > A three-company merger formed the Nokia Corporation in 1967; Nokian Tyres Limited was established in 1988 as a joint venture company split from the conglomerate as Nokia Corporation started focusing entirely on the mobile communications business.
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