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The 32,000 square feet (3,000 square meters) of the forest machine center in Finland are now in full use. Forest machine center inauguration THE 32,000 SQUARE feet (3,000 square meters) of the forest machine center in Pirkkala outside Tampere, Finland are now in full use. More than 650 guests from Finland, Timo Ylänen, new CEO of Komatsu Forest Oy. THE ANNUAL meeting of the European distributors of Valmet machines was held in the Latvian capital Riga. Representatives from 19 dealers gathered in Riga to discuss market issues, strategies, and activities in the European market. The meeting also saw Berndt Rauser bestow an award on the European dealer of the 14 JUST FOREST NO 4 • 2007 the rest of Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia attended the inauguration, listening to speakers that included Toshio Miyake, CEO of Komatsu Forest, and Timo Ylänen, year. This year’s Golden Bogie went to Cesar Sanchez of Spanish importer HITRAF. r CEO of Komatsu Forest Oy, as well as music from Finnish pop singer Laura Voutilainen. The forest machine center is an operations hub for Komatsu Forest in Finland. r New CEO in Finland Distributors meeting in Riga The European distributors meeting in Riga attracted no fewer than 19 distributors from around Europe. No less than 650 people from various countries attended the Grand Opening Ceremony of the new forest machine center. TIMO YLÄNEN is the new CEO of Komatsu Forest Oy from October 1. He is 44 years old, has broad international experience of the forest machine industry, and joins Komatsu Forest from John Deere, where he headed the company’s forest machine sales to European dealers. “The opportunity to work with Valmet and its high quality, high potential forest machines is an exciting challenge,” says Timo. r
Key customers choose Valmet THIRTY FOREST machines have now been delivered under the three major contracts Komatsu Forest’s German sales company Komatsu Forest GmbH won in Germany and Austria. A customer buying almost a dozen machines is not an everyday occurrence in the German market, and in these cases Komatsu Forest GmbH’s high-quality service helped tip the balance in Komat- Valmet in focus at Spanish forestry convention The Valmet 941 with a 370E head proved its productivity to curious onlookers at Asturforesta in Spain. su’s favor when the deals were made. The three customers are the Austrian forestry company ÖBf AG, which is partly stateowed, the Bavarian state forestry company BaySF, and a large sawmill in eastern Germany. ÖBf AG, for example, bought seven forwarders and four harvesters while the sawmill in eastern Germany bought a number of Valmet 941 harvesters. r FOR THE SEVENTH time, the Spanish Asturforesta forestry convention was held near the town of Tineo in northern Spain, near the border with France and Portugal. Valmet was in focus at the convention, which is held every second year, with its well attended demos held under realistic conditions. The demos “I’m convinced key customers see the advantages of our all-inclusive concept, which combines productive machines and quality service,” says Jürgen Munz, CEO of Komatsu Forest Gmbh. “So we’ll most probably see similarly large deals in the future.” attracted large crowds wanting to see, among other machines, the Valmet 840.3, the Valmet 941, and the Valmet 911.3 X3M. Many visitors were also drawn to the exhibition tent, where attractions included the Valmet Oryx simulator. The convention had 15,000 professional visitors and more than 120 exhibitors. r JUST FOREST NO 4 • 2007 15
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