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ACTA IMEKO 
December 2013, Volume 2, Number 2, 96 
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ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org December 2013 | Volume 2 | Number 2 | 96 

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ARCTIC METROLOGY            
 

Centre for Metrology and Accreditation – MIKES 

MIKES-Kajaani, Tehdaskatu 15, Puristamo 9P19, FI-87100 Kajaani, FINLAND 

 
Staff of MIKES-Kajaani (from left): Sauli Kilponen, Petri Koponen, Kari Kyllönen, Jani Korhonen, Timo Nissilä and Aimo Pusa. Second from right Dr. Rainer Engel 
from the PTB Germany. 

MIKES-Kajaani, the world’s northernmost national standards laboratory located near the Arctic Circle, has integrated well to the local research 
community, and serves both national and international customers with calibrations and special services. Premises in the newly designed, 
renovated building have proper temperature, vibration and humidity control as well as precisely determined g-values. The group running the facility 
is built up from eight local experts. Force, torque and heavy masses are in full service and serve industry in its calibration needs. The assembled 
three different water flow calibration rigs are also in service. 

MIKES is a partner in a joint research centre CEMIS (Centre for Measurement and Information Systems; the umbrella organisation of 
measurement technology in Kajaani) together with the Universities of Oulu and Jyväskylä, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, and VTT 
Technical Research Centre of Finland. CEMIS specialises in research and training in the field of measurement and information systems. In this 
cooperation, MIKES has been active in applied research varying from optical emission based measurement methods of heavy metals in water to 
ski base topography measurements. New thinking of reliable measurement results is implemented in every project. MIKES-Kajaani is also 
participating in a European metrology research project (EMRP) aiming for better measurements of larger forces. 

Calibration services at MIKES-Kajaani. 

Contact information: Group Manager Petri Koponen, tel. +358 29 5054 453, firstname.lastname@mikes.fi, www.mikes.fi 

Unit Range 
Relative 

uncertainty (k=2) 
Remarks 

Force 1 N – 1.1 MN 210-5 - 110-4 8 devices 

Torque 0.1 Nm – 20 kNm 210-5 - 510-4 7 devices 

Mass 50 kg – 2000 kg 210-6 3 devices 

Water flow 0.2 l/s – 750 l/s 0.03 % - 0.5 % Gravimetric or Reference 

Consistency 0 – 12 % 0.2 % 
Flow rate 0.5 m/s – 4.0 m/s 

(consistency dependent)