PONSSE News 1/2011 ENG In English

logging Heroesequipped with the PONSSE H53 harvesterhead during the winter months, and the oldveteran, the eight-wheel PONSSE HS10 isperforming harvesting in the swamps. Otherwiseour forest machines are quite new,old machines simply don't cut it in thisbusiness. And professional drivers deserveproper equipment. Our employees form agreat team, and some of the people havebeen working for us for up to 25 years," saysKastinen.STOra ENSO'S larGE-ScalEENTrEPrENEurMetsä- ja Maansiirto Kastinen Oy performscontracts for StoraEnso, which has beentheir key employer throughout their entirehistory. They also do, for instance, forestpreparation for Tornator."We started the large-scale entrepreneurshipwith Stora Enso in the Ilomantsi area.This means that we are, in cooperationwith our subcontractors, responsible for allof Stora Enso's harvesting within our area.This requires a total of ten machine chains,"Kastinen explains.The company used to harvest more than150,000 cubic metres of wood per year, butalong with the large-scale entrepreneurship,this increased to over 250,000 cubic metres."Last winter was a really good period forus at harvesting sites. There also seems to bea high number of summer stands this summer.We believe strongly in the future. Therewill be harvesting in Finland also in the future,"Kastinen says.Due to the large-scale entrepreneurship,the company will concentrate more on harvestingenergy wood."Until now we have done it on a smallscale, and have mainly been transportinglogging waste. Ponsse's new H6 harvesterhead also makes multi-stemming possible,so I'm guessing that the importance of energywood will increase in our company inthe future," Kastinen says.ONly PONSSE machiNES ThrOuGhOuT ThEyEarSKastinen Oy purchased their first actualforest machines from Ponsse in 1991, andsince then their entire fleet has consistedof PONSSE machines."We bought a new PONSSE HS15 harvesterand an S15 forwarder through directselling. At the time it was a huge investment,I can still clearly remember the price– 1,980,000 Finnmarks. But the investmentenabled us pick up the pace and our machinefleet started to increase steadily," Kastinenrecalls.Many machine deals have been concludedwith Ponsse over the past twenty years."As a Finnish manufacturer, Ponsse is extremelyeasy to deal with and over the courseof our history we have not regretted a singledeal. In addition to the good machines,the spare part and maintenance services arefunctioning well at Ponsse's Ilomantsi ServiceCentre. These are the things we valuegreatly," Kastinen says.Ponsse News 1 • 2011 45