Who are you?
My name is Juhana Haukioja, entrepreneur and owner at Valaistus MK Oy.  

What is your company specialized in?
Valaistus MK Oy offers hands on service for interior designers and architects to choose the best lighting solutions for any space. We represent several European lighting manufacturers and do bespoke product tailoring to fullfill the demanding needs of public spaces, offices, maritime industry, hotels, and restaurants.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders or partners?
Since 2003 interior architects and designers have used Valaistus MK’s services to help design cost-effective yet still high-quality lighting solutions in thousands of hotel rooms, suites, restaurants, and cabins. We have delivered lighting fixtures all around the world no matter where the project takes place. With our trusted partners we can do even the most demanding, completely custom lighting solutions without restriction to certain material types.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
First of all we offer more competitive pricing for any type of luminaires. As we know from the bigger projects every euro matters in the competition and our job is to make sure that you are not losing the project because of too expensive light fixtures. Via co-operation we can specify high-quality yet cost effective products to fulfill the needs required.

Our motto is “Don’t spend money to the basic stuff but focus on the most meaningful eyecatchers that you will be remembered by.”

What are your expectations for YardMate?
We expect to find long-term, trustful partnerships from the YardMate’s Members and to win and sometimes lose projects together in the industry.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
We have everything ready to go and we have our own subcontractor networks if required when necessary.

What are your future needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
We need to meet the interior architects and designers as early as possible to help them in their work also in the future projects we need to co-operate with electrical design and installation companies to do the correct solutions starting from the design table. That’s how the most cost-effective solutions are made of.

Anything else you wish to say to us?
Have a great day and let’s make brighter tomorrow together 💡

Who are you?
My name is Jari Torkkola, and I am a partner in the ERA Group network.

What is your company specialized in?
ERA Group boasts a global network of industry specialists, each bringing a wealth of knowledge and insight from their extensive and successful careers in their areas of expertise. Our team is ready to deliver local knowledge to your region, working alongside your business to enhance performance, reduce costs, and improve financial flexibility.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders or partners?
At ERA Group, our analysts leverage their deep understanding of supplier industries to empower your organization with the insights and capabilities needed for making best-in-class purchasing decisions.

Our analysts, each with an average of 20 years of industry and category-specific experience, are committed to comprehending the distinct aspects of the specific supplier industries and cost categories they manage. The collective expertise of our analysts encompasses over 40 common expense areas, including but not limited to Facility and Property Management, Logistics and Distribution, and Telecommunications and ICT Technology.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
As one of the world’s leading specialists in cost management, ERA Group is dedicated to optimizing your business costs and discovering innovative solutions tailored to your company’s needs. The savings achieved result from our comprehensive subject knowledge, professional negotiations with suppliers, and our qualitative assessment of their performance versus your needs.

For many organizations, this entails integrating logistics at each stage of the product’s lifecycle, from raw material transport and packaging to warehousing products and managing transportation/shipping. ERA assists businesses in managing expenses related to their supplier base, including 3PL logistics, fleet management, small package freight, and warehousing. By reviewing clients’ supplier relationships and expenses, ERA identifies potential savings opportunities.

When these opportunities are realized, organizations can enhance their cash flow by reinvesting those savings back into their business.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
We aim to offer comprehensive support to shipyards, cruise lines, and aviation companies through YardMate, enhancing their operations and efficiency.

What are your future needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
We are constantly looking for opportunities to collaborate with other companies. If you have any proposals or ideas, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. We value innovative partnerships and are keen to explore how we can work together for mutual benefit.

Anything else you wish to say to us?
If there are any concepts or opportunities you’re interested in discussing, I encourage you to contact me. I’m open to conversations that could lead to fruitful collaborations. Let’s connect and explore potential ventures together.

Thank you for all the participants from YardMate and other companies who joined us on B2B-Networking in Hyvinkää, Friday the 2nd of February. We had only 2 weeks time to put this gathering together and to invite companies, so over 100 firm representatives is a very good result.

Program included
– free networing
– opening new cooperation between companies
– LUOTTOMIES movie, the fun part 🙂
– Interview: Mr. Luottomies Antti Luusuaniemi (head actor)
– Open Mic for partner companies to tell about their business

More such happenings must be arranged during the year, so STAY TUNED!

Who are you?
My name is Marius Klovas , owner of the company and working as managing director at JSC WESTA STEEL which was established 14 years ago.

What is your company specialized in?
Main fields of activity: manufacturing, production of standard and non-standard metal structures, carbon and stainless steel tanks, pressure tanks, siloses, modules, containers, vessels parts, various equipment.

Ship building and ship repair works.

CNC milling, turning, aluminum casting, anodizing, thermoplastic coating, pouder coating.

We carry out engineering and designing of projects, 3D modeling, Tekla programing.

Technical insulation of pipelines, tanks, boilers.

Scaffolding systems for the industrial market.

Erection, dismantling and rental of scaffolding structures. 

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders or partners?
Westa Steel gathered several companies in there small city. Group of companies have all EN required certificates form manufacturing and activities, like EN-1090; ISO3834;  ISO14000; ISO9001.

All of  our clients are form Europe. mostly Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium, Germany.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
We can provide your company, projects with qualified  welders, installers, fitters, assemblers  for industrial and ship building industry.

Our goal is to integrate our activity in ship building industry.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
It would be great to work in shipyard sector and to develop the industry in bigger success. To find more interested projects  were we could participate together with other partners from Yeardmate.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
Our future need regarding personnel is optimistic. Would be grate to find  Finish employees or agents who could be interested in finding new clients and to find new possibilities for the company.

What are your future needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
To find  reliable and creative contractors, partners for our company who are ready for Vision….to better goals..

Anything else you wish to say to us?
Hopefully this platform will be one more key to better Business relliationship.

A lot to say but when one of the most well-known surfer’s magazine sends their journalist to dig out what we have invented up here in Nordics you have to be proud of your achievement. YardMate is a consortium of over one hundreds members and the member company Artwave Surf holds one of our main innovations that has been noticed globally. Beside negotiations with the world’s largest cruise lines we are also getting attention from the actual target audience – surfers!

We collect here articles that seems to show up at least on weekly basis now!

Read SURFERTODAY’s article here!

Read Wave Pool Magazine’s article here!

Here’s the latest press release about our world class patented technology that takes the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions even below the EU standards – finally we can honestly say that we can affect how much the industry in the marine and aviation traffic will pollute the world – a lot less that was expected!

In English: Finno_Exergy_press_release_092023

Suomeksi: Tiedote_FinnoExergyOy

Marine industry starts to be on the place we’ve been waiting for a few years. Check out the latest news from our industry forum in Hyvinkää, links and text below (in Finnish)!

https://www.hyvinkaa.fi/business-hyvinkaa/etusivun-uutislohko/mista-loydamme-jatkossa-tahan-maahan-riittavasti-tekijoita/ 

Saimme kunnian olla kertomassa alihankinnan ja resursoinnin uusista tuulista Hyvinkään kaupungin elinkeinojohdon ja kaupunginjohtaja Johanna Luukkonen kanssa ideoimassamme foorumissa, yhdessä Meyer Turun telakan johtaja Ilkka Rytkölä:n, Turun kaupungin tutkimusjohtaja Timo Aro:n, EK:n Jyri Häkämies ja Koneen Kristiina Saaristo:n kanssa.

Meiltä lauteilla tällä kertaa YardMaten Partneri Sami Naapuri sekä Senior Advisor Jari Kaasinen – Kiitos, Sami ja Jari hienosti vedetystä foorumista! Tästä on hyvä lähteä kiertämään kaikki päättäjät taas 1-2-1 merkeissä 🙂

Tosiaan nyt meriteollisuus jälleen vetää, ja me yhdistämme tekijät ja tarvitsijat, tuomme uudet alihankkijat mukaan ja palvelumuotoilemme tuotteet siihen kuosiin, että ne palvelevat teollisuutta.

Olkaa reilusti yhteydssä,
Kari Härkönen P. +358 400 752 542 / kari(dot)harkonen(at)yardmate(dot)com
Sami Naapuri P. +358 50 325 4763 / sami(dot)naapuri(at)yardmate(dot)com
Jari Kaasinen P. +358 50 488 4555 / jari(dot)kaasinen(at)yardmate(dot)com

Who are you?
Jari Ikonen, industrial designer, Aitomuotoilu Oy.

What is your company specialized in?
Aitomuotoilu Oy is providing industrial design services. We are specialized in small space design, particularly when a small space needs to function perfectly. Our experience, customer-centric approach, and creativity make us an excellent partner in designing small spaces. The usability and functionality of small spaces are crucial. We offer design solutions that take into account usability, manufacturability, and aesthetic optimization, considering the specific usage requirements. Modular solutions and multifunctional furniture are standard solutions for our designs in boat, lightweight construction, and other small space solutions.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders or partners?
Our clients have mainly been small businesses from various industries. Client projects have been executed both directly for individual clients and as part of a larger design team.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
Product concepts and other industrial design services. Product conceptualization is our primary area of expertise. Conceptualization allows for a preliminary assessment of future costs and the likelihood of success in the product development process. The process begins with defining the relevant aspects of the product. We establish the framework for the product and determine what the customer and end-user truly need. Through 3D modeling, we gain a comprehensive view of the product and consider future manufacturing and logistical challenges. 3D modeling also enables us to examine ergonomic aspects.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
As a small player, our goal is to expand client projects into larger deliveries and to network.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
As projects expand, we require not only core expertise in industrial design but also proficiency in digital solutions and traditional sales and marketing resources. With the increasing presence of technological innovations, expertise in virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence is also necessary.

Anything else you wish to say to us?
We hope to find our own place in the network for YardMate’s upcoming projects.

YardMate’s CEO Kari Härkönen launches a new 360 degree game innovation together with the inventor, director-writer Janne Nykänen. The game can be played in 3D virtual environment where REAL actors arrange scenes and players can follow the act in 360 environment having VR glasses on. The script contains a murder and players having small teams will compete who finds out the murderer.

The game can be run in any place or negotiation room where people are having minimum 1 square meter space to move. That’s why it is also a killer application for all the cruice lines wondering cost-effective & ecologic services for their passengers.

The game session is launched publicly on Saturday 29th, April in Movie theater KINOMA (www.kinoma.fi) owned by Kari Härkönen. After that it is available for corporate and private sales via Kari’s film company.

NOTE: All the YardMate Members gets special discount from the game session!

Read the article in Finnish in Aamuposti

or see the whole article HERE in picture!

See the Murder Mystery movie trailer!

YardMate’s CEO is a regular writer in the editorial page of Turun Sanomat. As a cognitive scientist and personnel analyst one of his areas of investigation is decision making taxonomies. In this article Kari writes about the flaws of current parliamentary election system. He also introduces a model that would fix the most of the disadvantages in the current system – an election system that reflects the people’s opinion better. Read the article (in Finnish) in Turun Sanomat: