Company

Kaukomarkkinat - Brand merchandise and professional service

Kaukomarkkinat focuses on three business sectors: the company provides products and services for safety and communications as well as boosting energy efficiency and improving profitability in the pulp and paper industry. Most of our products and related services comprise electronics and industrial machinery. We have a robust position in Asia. Kaukomarkkinat was the first Finnish company to open an office in China – way back in 1953 – and also the first to start importing Japanese products.

Strategy

Kaukomarkkinat’s strategy is to deliver products and services that enhance processes and boost operational efficiency. For our customers, this means faster and more efficient production processes, cost savings, and solutions with a competitive edge. All of our business sectors seek to improve energy-efficiency.

Close, long-term partnerships with leading industry suppliers are a fundamental aspect of our strategy – for example, we have already been cooperating with Panasonic for 40 years.

Customers and added value

Energy Efficiency Technology products include air-source heat pumps, steam and gas turbines, energy-saving lamps and frequency converters. We will round out our range with air-to-water heat pumps in 2010. Our competitive edge in this business comes from our leading suppliers and their brand products, a broad product range and expert related services. Customers include energy utilities, companies in the process industry, construction companies and retailers.

Wood Processing Industry Machinery and Solutions delivers machinery and equipment for the pulp and paper industry from the best-known manufacturers. Reliable products, robust expertise and decades of experience in customer and supplier relationships give us a competitive edge. Technical support as well as spare part and maintenance services are an important element of operations.

Security & Digital Solutions’ products include production video and monitoring technology, wireless and fixed communications solutions, computers for demanding professional use and tapeless IT professional video cameras. Customers include public institutions, service companies, operators and retailers.

Kaukomarkkinat has international operations in China, Vietnam, Russia and Poland. In China, we deliver new machines for the paper industry, parts for the modernization of older machinery, and all the necessary components, spare parts and consumables. We also operate a joint venture specializing in assembly and maintenance services, which offers additional subcontractor services to the mechanical engineering industry outside China. Our Beijing office ensures that we benefit from government credit instruments in, for example, environmental or healthcare projects.

In Poland, we deliver machinery and equipment to the paper and pulp industry, and also act as a retailer and importer for a frequency converter manufacturer. We market machinery and equipment for the chemical wood processing industry in Russia and Vietnam.