MEYER TURKU OY

Their core work

Meyer Turku is one of Europe's major shipyards, headquartered in Turku, Finland, specializing in the construction of large cruise ships, ferries, and specialized vessels. In H2020 projects, they contribute real-world shipbuilding expertise — testing advanced materials for ship structures, developing safety systems for flooding and collision scenarios, and piloting new manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing and thermoforming for ship components. Their participation brings industrial-scale validation that only an active shipyard can provide.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Early projects (2015-2017) focused on manufacturing intelligence platforms and advanced materials characterization — improving how ships are built and what they are built from. Later projects (2019-2022) shifted toward maritime safety (flooding, collision, evacuation modeling) and bio-based manufacturing (cellulose insulation, 3D printing). The trajectory shows a shipyard moving from material and process optimization toward safety-by-design and sustainable manufacturing.

Meyer Turku is increasingly engaged in safety-critical design and sustainable material alternatives, positioning them well for future green shipping and IMO safety regulation projects.

How they like to work

Meyer Turku participates exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator — consistent with a large industrial end-user that provides real-world testbeds and validation rather than managing research agendas. With 82 unique partners across 17 countries, they are well-connected but selective, joining mid-to-large consortia where their shipyard infrastructure and production knowledge add direct industrial relevance.

Broadly networked across 17 countries with 82 distinct consortium partners, indicating strong connections to the European maritime research and advanced manufacturing communities. Their network likely spans Nordic maritime clusters, major European research institutes, and material science groups.

What sets them apart

Meyer Turku is not a research lab — it is a working shipyard that builds some of the world's largest cruise vessels. This makes them a rare H2020 partner: they can take research results from materials science or safety modeling and test them at full production scale. For any consortium targeting maritime applications, having an actual shipbuilder validates results in ways that simulation alone cannot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FLARE
  Largest single EC contribution (EUR 331,688) and directly addresses life-safety at sea — flooding, evacuation, and collision risk modeling for passenger ships.
• RAMSSES
  Long-running project (2017-2021) focused on demonstrating advanced sustainable materials in real ship applications, combining modularisation with long-term material testing.
• NOVUM
  Unusual cross-sector project bringing cellulose-based materials and additive manufacturing (3D printing, thermoforming) into the maritime electrical insulation domain.