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:

Who are you?
My name is Tomi Ojanen. I am working at Notra as sales director.

What is your company specialized in?
Notra specializes in industrial maintenance and various projects. Our slogan is “sell your worries to us”. We work in ports, the food industry and various factory conditions, for example. Notra`s expertise is very comprehensive. We have experts in automation, crane maintenance, property technology, equipment maintenance and in the food industry.

Notra crane maintenance in operation.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders or partners?
We have a wide customer base. Our customers are mainly located in Satakunta. For example we work at HKScan, the port of Rauma and Kokkola and also at Kongsberg. We are a privately owned  company. Notra has a lot of partner companies ranging from a construction company to a machining company.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
We offer all our know-how and professionalism to YardMate partners. We succeed in industrial consulting, as well as various modernizations and maintenance services. Our expertise is really extensive and ranges from automation, robotics and equipment modernization to crane maintenance. We are a full-service maintenance house, and then our expertise is in line with that. I hope we will be contacted at the lowest possible threshold.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
I look forward to networking with different people and sharing expertise with each other. I hope that through this I will find reliable partners, leading to a mutually beneficial relationship. As a result, the business of both would develop.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
We need a lot of experts in the field. In particular, we need crane installers, electrical automation installers and mechanical maintenance installers.

What are your future needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
We are looking for partners and subcontractors with whom we can grow and develop our business.

Who are you?
Kimmo Haverinen, area manager in Insinööritoimisto Varsinais-Suomen Kalliotekniikka Oy which is a member in quickly growing Solwers Group

Kimmo in the middle

What is your company specialized in?
We are vibrations experts – vibrations from different sources (rock blasting, pile driving heavy traffic etc.)  and their effects on surrounding buildings, structures and vibration sensitive devices (any kind) – we are securing the peace between a construction site and its neighbors.

Vibration measurement ongoing.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders or partners?
Our clients are mostly construction contractors or developers.

Kakola jailhouse construction in Turku, Finland.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
In any construction project including rock blasting or pile driving: pre-blast inspections, vibration monitoring and consulting, noise monitoring (any kind), noise modelling.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
I hope to grow my network.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
We are growing slowly, I hope to have 1-2 new workers in next 2 years. Engineers.

What are your future needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
Sub-contractors: no need, partners with expertise in some environmental monitoring is always interesting.

Read Tekniikka ja Talous article (in Finnish) about how YardMate has managed to open doors to subcontractors. Industry field is from marine to aviation and everything in between. Here’s the original article in Tekniika ja Talous (requires registeration).