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PONSSE Buffalo the New Champion of Forwarders Page 9 PONSSE NEWS The spearhead of productive harvesting English 1•2011 PONSSE BUFFALO The new champion of forwarders PAGE 9 TIME FLIES IN VIEREMÄ REWARDS FOR THE FOREST PERTTI KASTINEN IN BUSINESS PONSSE CELEBRATES 40 SECTOR ELITE for ovEr 30 yEArs YEARS OF OPERATIONS THE EINARI VIDGRÉN GENERATiONS chaNGE – PAGE 22 FOUNDATION REWARDS PONSSE REMAINS FOREST PROFESSIONALS PAGE 44 Ponsse News 1 • 2011 1 PAGE 30 PONSSE NEWS 1 • 2011 CONTENTS Editorial ................................................................................................... 3 HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND SERVICE HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND SERVICE Eight-wheel PonssE Ergo – much expected addition to the British machine markets .....................................................................4 PonssE Ergo 8w – at home on the french slopes ...........................................6 PonssE Ergo 8w – optimal harvesting even in the most demanding of terrain ..... 8 PONSSE Buffalo – The new champion of forwarders ......................................... 9 PONSSE Comfort user interface .................................................................. 10 PONSSE Fox .............................................................................................11 PONSSE H5 ............................................................................................. 11 PONSSE C6 sliding boom crane .................................................................. 12 A logging site in the archipelago ..................................................................14 PONSSE provides cost-effective solutions for harvesting energy wood ............... 16 Do you want us to wrap it up for you? ..........................................................18 Ponsse on logging sites for 40 years PONSSE ON LOGGING SITES In the beginning there was a logging site, a hand-held saw and Einari ................ 22 for 40 years Einari vidgrén 1943–2010 ........................................................................ 23 Events during the past year ........................................................................ 24 For the iron hands it's the attitude that counts .............................................. 28 Matti Hiltunen – 40 years at Ponsse ............................................................ 29 THE FOREST WORLD The Einari Vidgrén Foundation rewarded forestry professionals with EUr 86,000 .................................................................................... 30 Top-notch motivation at forest machine training for adults ...............................31 Onward in good spirits ............................................................................... 32 Skilled workers are always in demand .......................................................... 33 A pleasant accident ...................................................................................33 Hannu's long pile ...................................................................................... 34 Karttulan Metsätyö Oy: Getting on together .................................................. 35 Aatto Silventoinen: Slow and steady wins the race ......................................... 36 THE FOREST WORLD LOGGING HEROES The litmus test of May ...............................................................................38 Veljekset Knuutinen Oy harvesting with the power of seven PONSSE machines ... 42 Generations change – Ponsse remains .........................................................44 Earl st. John – the road from the woods to success ...................................... 46 PoNssE NEws 1/2011 Ponsse's customer magazine for customers and partners Published by Ponsse Plc, Ponssentie 22, fI-74200 VIEREMÄ Subscriptions:: Tel. +358 20 768 800, fax +358 20 768 8690 Editorial staff: Ponsse Plc Layout: Työmaa, www.tyomaa.com Printed by: Kalevaprint Oy Feedback: [email protected] 2 Ponsse News 1 • 2011 LOGGING HEROES GREETINGS FROM VIEREMÄ! Last year saw us celebrating Ponsse’s 40-year history at logging sites around the world. In more ways than one, our jubilee year proved to be important and memorable. Together with our customers, we pulled through a gruelling financial situation and, as a company, now find ourselves in better shape than perhaps ever before. We were happy to witness the improvement in our customers’ business, the recovery in the demand for for- est machines and the cessation of our personnel’s temporary lay-offs, not to mention our organisation’s return to a Ponsse-style way of working and thinking. This was no small deal for Einari. Listening to the customer, a sense of commitment and humbleness before work, speed, a sense of humour and an uncompromising attitude towards work are characteristic of our values. Our operations have always been based on a strong focus on the relevant and an un- wavering reliance on what we do. Even the most difficult of times failed to undermine our faith in a better tomorrow. The truth of the matter is that we love making forest machines! The year has been a busy time for us. The demand for forest machines has been high indeed and the amount of orders in our books reached record levels. North America is the sole market area that has remained on a weaker level in terms of orders as the local financial crisis drags on. Our service business has also been kept busy in supporting our customers in the field. This is evident in the continuous growth of our service operations. Our investments have regained their momentum both at the plant and in the service op- erations. At the plant, the bulk of our investment relates to machining and the automation of welding. Towards the end of the year, we will expand our premises and facilities with an additional 1,000 square metres. In the autumn of 2010, we invested in our Iisalmi service and spare parts operations in the form of expanded facilities. We have now moved used machine sales and remanufac- tured parts to shared premises, allowing us to continue the expansion of our spare parts stock. The Iisalmi Service Centre also functions as a central warehouse for our global spare parts services, and nearly one hundred service professionals already work at the facilities. The new facilities in St. Petersburg, Russia, were opened in early summer and the Jyväskylä operations will also receive new facilities for the service centre at the beginning of 2012. Our goal is to keep improving the availability of spare parts in all of our locations and to gener- ate increasingly functional conditions for supporting our customers and providing service. At the beginning of May 2011, Epec Oy’s Kajaani-based forest machine information sys- tems’ application and product development unit reverted to Ponsse Plc. The transfer enables the increasingly effective development of information system products for PONSSE forest machines and Epec Oy’s intensified focus on the needs of other work machine clients and, thereby, the company’s growth. The hub of Epec Oy’s operations lies in Seinäjoki, where we will continue to generate the information technology used in forest machines. The new eight-wheeled harvester models have proved successful in meeting our custom- ers’ harvesting needs and now constitute a significant part of our order books. The change in the markets has been swift. We have received particular praise for the PONSSE Fox thinning harvester, whose technical solutions have introduced the improvements customers have been asking for with regard to user comfort and efficiency of harvesting. At the same time, the eight-wheeled PONSSE Ergo has turned out to be another success on the markets. We have continued our fast-paced product development and just this spring supplied the market with the C44 crane, the PONSSE H5 harvester head and, with regard to bigger size categories, the PONSSE ElephantKing forwarder. While producing new products, we continue to develop our existing product families and have a keen ear for our customers. To quote Einari, ”We keep our promises.” Typical of the founder of the company, making good progress together with our customers is what we do and what we believe in. I wish everyone a busy autumn! Juho Nummela President and CEO Ponsse News 1 • 2011 3 HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND SERVICE EIGHT-WHEEL PONSSE ERGO – MUCH EXPECTED ADDITION TO THE BRITISH MACHINE MARKETS The harvester's eight wheels improve its performance on steep hills and demanding terrain. The world's first eight-wheel Ergo operates on a felling site which is located 20 miles to the north of the Ponsse UK Lockerbie Service Centre. 4 Ponsse News 1 • 2011 HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND SERVICE Bobby Dick on the left, his son Alistair, harvester operator Dave Wilson, and Gareth Williams, Sales Manager at Ponsse UK. Nowadays, it is extremely rare to find a six- "The crane operation of the new ma- mill is located only a few miles from Eon's wheel forwarder in British forests, but with chine is faster and smoother, and the har- biomass energy mill in Lockerbie, which is regard to harvesters, the eight-wheel mod- vester head and saw are much faster, even the final destination of the stumps. els have been scarcely available. Only some compared to the previous Ergo," he says. smaller forest machine manufacturers Wilson also points out that one of the ben- PROPER MACHINES FOR TRUE have offered eight-wheel harvesters. "On efits includes the possibility to fine-tune PROFESSIONALS the other hand, machine development is the crane operations with the computer. governed by the needs of markets that are The Ergo 8w is equipped with a PONSSE Meanwhile
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