Meet Camilla, whose mission is to save lives. She, a nurse with paramedic experience, and her team are extremely skilled to fulfil this aim, learn more below!

Who are you?
Camilla Mäkinen, founder, CEO and also one of the First Aid Trainers in Camilla Safety.

What is your company specialized in?
We are specialized in trainings that improve and maintain good safety on workplaces. We have courses in First Aid, Firefighting and Threat Situations. All our instructors have worked or are still working as paramedics, firefighters or policemen. We use modern technology and the courses are very hands-on. The duration of the courses vary from 2h to 16h.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders?
Our clients are companies in the Turku-Pori-Tampere-Helsinki-area. Several of the companies operate at different levels in the maritime industry. Occupational First Aid trainings are mandatory according to Finnish law and, therefore, both small and large companies use our services. Courses are mainly held in the customers’ own facilities where we are able train in genuine locations. We also have our own training room in Piispanristi (Turku) and can arrange for other spaces as well depending on what our clients need.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
We offer YardMate members all above mentioned trainings (first aid, firefighting and threat situations), AEDs (defibrillators) and first aid equipment. As a YardMate member you get -10% off all course prises and, in addition to this, you get to free of charge use our resuscitation simulator and try a crash experience using our VR-glasses during a First Aid course. To book a course or for more information, call Camilla at +358 50 5898 079 or e-mail ensiapu@camilla.fi

What are your expectations for YardMate?
We hope YardMate member companies will be interested in improving the safety of their employees. If you want a modern and inspirational safety course, don’t hesitate to call us. We have the possibility to train a large amount of groups and have already provided several trainings to YardMate members.

And your needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
We could do with 1-2 firefighters more in our team to do 2h trainings every now and then. If you have a good contact, call Camilla at +358 50 5898 079.

Anything else you wish to say to us?
If you have done a first aid course but it wasn’t a wow-experience, call Camilla Safety. Remember, you may one day be the first, most important and maybe the only bystander in an accident or medical fit. Learn how to help. Together we can save lives!

You do a fantastic work, Camilla! The wow-experience really is present in your First Aid trainings, which means one remembers more easily how to act in an accident situation. For any reader to get a first glimpse on Camilla’s hands-on advice, check Camilla Mäkinen at LinkedIn.

Photos by Annika Perho

YardMate-verkosto kehittää meriteollisuuteen innovatiivisia ratkaisuja. Mitä uuden kehittäminen vaatii? Teknologia tukee mutta ihminen on avainasemassa. Ymmärrys ja uudet ratkaisut perustuvat muistiin. Ilman muistia et pysty yhdistämään asioita ja luomaan uutta.

Toimitusjohtajamme Kari kertoo Turun Sanomien pääkirjoitussivun artikkelissaan muistista ja sen toiminnasta. Klikkaa kuvaa ja lue koko juttu!

Mitä muistat luettuasi artikkelin? Mitä uusia ajatuksia sait?

Randomly formed company groups brainstormed on their joint service at YardMate network January workshop. 15 minutes to figure it out, and great solutions!

Imagine the full network possibilities when service packaging is done for real. Countless combinations, scope, flexibility. New offerings for the marine industry.

Have a great 2019, everyone!

YardMate crew wishes you a Happy Holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year! Click the image for the full wishes!

video by Studio Brahe

3D- ja AR-mobiilipeli, satukirja, lautapeli – ja seikkailupuisto. Pomenia valloittaa maailmaa, tuotteiden näkyvyys on Suomen startup-rankingin ykkössijalla. YardMaten kautta satumaisen aarteenmetsästyksen saa myös risteilijöille. Lue lisää Yle:n uutisista täältä.

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This week we’ll take you to meet Jaana Siitonen from Adworks. Their expertise is to create YOUR company and products’ visual appearance. Their skillfulness and latest material know-how provide you with possibilities you would not even have thought of! Read more below.

Who are you?
I am Jaana Siitonen, Key Account Manager at Adworks. I have worked with Adworks for about three years, helping customers find the right materials and solutions for their advertising and interior design needs. Adworks is the biggest provider of advertising, interior design and signage solutions in Finland Proper, with deep special knowledge and a large partner network.

What is your company specialized in?
Adworks implements a variety of tape orders, stickers, signs and signage. We are an authorized 3M products reseller and installer and provide our services for example for the following industry solutions: commercial and business premises, transport and vehicles, outdoor advertising and events, ship and terminal, industrial and real estate.

We have our own graphic artists who create your design and our own installers to make sure the outcome fits your need perfectly.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders?
Our customers include companies, associations and cities of varying size. For example, we are contract suppliers for both Vantaa and Espoo cities. We cooperate with several construction companies with new construction and renovation, creating interior design and signage.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
We offer solutions for advertising, interior design and signage made of high-quality materials and with professional installation. Please contact Jaana Siitonen at Adworks, jaana.siitonen@adworks.fi and I will be happy to help you!

What are your expectations for YardMate?
We want to find new partners, contacts and, of course, even more work in the marine industry, where we have a long history and solid know-how.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
We have been growing steadily and will continue to do so.

And your needs regarding sub-contractors and partners?
We have a very good network of suppliers and sub-contractors to multiple products but if you have an idea on what we could do together don’t hesitate to contact Jaana!

Anything else you wish to say to us?
We have a long and solid work experience in the shipbuilding industry and we know the special challenges there and what kind of materials are most suitable to that environment. Our crews have been working also abroad, for example in Singapore, the Bahamas and Italy.

The shipbuilding industry work we have done: A wide variety of signages to restaurants, both commercial and informative. Other typical products are stickers, printed wallpaper, wood pattern over laminating film and other architectural finishing films, light diffuser films and many other.

We have used materials like acryl, wood, steel, brass and aluminium, for example. In our industry only the imagination sets the limits.

Adworks has grown from a company of one person in 2011 to over a dozen in 2018. You can feel the energy and drive in people, spiced up with a great sense of humour and a relaxed attitude. All core competence is in-house, and the amount of experience Adworks has solves even the trickiest of problems, and with style!

Photos by Adworks and Annika Perho

YardMate member Gofore, selected in 2017 as Great Place to Work no 1 in Finland and no 2 in Europe, opened this year an office in Turku, and they are growing. What does the company do and what makes it great – both for the employees and the customers? Read Kari Karru’s interview below.

Who are you?
I’m Kari Karru, one of the first employees in Gofore Turku office. I work here as senior service architect. Currently I work with many tasks related to building and growing our presence in Turku area and also in different customer projects developing customer processes and solution architectures. That’s what everyone at our office is doing regardless of their title. We are a team of experienced people who are eager to make Gofore Turku-office successful. We provide the same services in this region that our colleagues are providing from our other offices in Finland and Europe.

What is your company specialized in?
We want to make the world better through digitalization and by renewing ways of working. We help our clients ensure they have the ability to change in a changing operational environment. We do this by offering management consulting, service design, software development services and cloud infrastructure.

The world is changing faster all the time and in the future services will be constantly reinvented. Organisations have a constant need for change. There is a huge gap between the current operational methods and the methods that are technically possible. Closing this gap is digitalisation, and that’s what we are good at, on every level.

Tell us about your clients?
Our customers come from all kinds of industries. In industrial area we have worked for e.g. ABB, Metso, Sandvik and VOITH. Common for our customers is the need to make things better and drive the change. We always work together with customer to make that change possible. We are not tied to any technology or technology provider. Our pool of ca. 500 experts, ensures that our clients gets the right expert and knowledge for their own individual needs.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
In a big picture we want to develop ecosystems, make them transparent and interactive, share their members data and knowledge and by doing that build agile and sustainable business for all the ecosystem members.

So, if you need to renew your software solution, develop your service process, discuss company strategy, investigate possibilities of artificial intelligence, design new mobile application, etc. just name it, we will find a way to help you.

And even if you don’t know yet what to do, just have a gut feeling that something should be done, ‘tarttis tehrä jottain’, don’t hesitate to contact Kari at +358 40 838 0280, let’s find out together what to do.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
Our company is new in the region, so obviously we want to spread the word about our services. We also want to learn to know the business in Turku region and do our part in the success of marine cluster in Finland.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?
Gofore has been growing profitably during all its existence. That means, we constantly need competent people to work with us. Just check our web-site.

To keep these experienced people happy and develop even more, we need to have interesting projects and tasks for them. We want to study new interesting technologies and ways of working – adapt them to ours and our customers’ business and make change possible.

Anything else you wish to say to us?
The world is not ready yet and no one knows where the next disruption comes. By working together our businesses, Turku-area and whole Finland will be leading the way in the maritime industry’s future.

Gofore lives from change and changes itself, too. We met with Kari in their temporary Turku office of 10 senior-level employees. Once the building is ready in 2019, Gofore shall move to brand new premises with space for 30–40 people. ‘Be bold and active in recruiting’ said the management. Great advice, great company. We are happy to have Gofore in YardMate member team!

Photos by Gofore and Annika Perho

Meet Niilo and Mervi from SOL Henkilöstöpalvelut, a company where people matter. At YardMate member SOL the recruiter gets hands-on experience on the job they recruit for, to get a proper understanding on the job requirements and – of course – the best candidate match.

Who are you?
Niilo Kemppe, CEO and company founder in 2006. I sold the company in 2009 to SOL family company, which was when the name changed to SOL Henkilöstöpalvelut (SOL Personnel Services) and I became the director. My retirement time is getting close and we have decided to pass on the CEO title to the next generation. I shall take on Account director role in the company.

Mervi Santavuori, Service Manager in the larger Turku area. I am responsible for customer care and new customer acquisition.

What is your company specialized in?
We provide personnel services. We for example bring workforce from EU countries and outside EU to the whole of Finland, also taking care of the immigration process.

Tell us about your clients?
We have key customers in metal industry, marine industry and ICT.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?
Quality employees for industrial areas, including office personnel.

What are your expectations for YardMate?
We are happy to provide recruiting services to any YardMate members. You can trust our quality. Our customer satisfaction is 99,8 % based on regular customer satisfaction surveys. Call Mervi Santavuori at +358 40 124 7336, I am happy to meet you!

What are your future needs regarding partners?
We shall be needing accommodation services to the employees that will be moving to Turku area to work for our customers.

Anything else you wish to say to us?
We are the 8th largest personnel service company in Finland, with 52.1 M€ turnover in 2017. There is a reason why we have achieved this. We truly are different in the way we work, let us come and tell you how!

SOL Henkilöstöpalvelut is a company where not only customer but also employee satisfaction reaches top scores. One could see it so clearly during the interview, watching Niilo an Mervi complement each other telling excitedly about the elements the company uses to ensure its service quality, both towards the customer and the hired workforce. Meet Mervi and see for yourself!

Photos by SOL Henkilöstöpalvelut and Annika Perho

This week we’ll present you Marianna Kauriala at Markku Kauriala Ltd, a company who is in international demand as a fire technical designer, consultancy and trainer, and an expert in performance-based fire engineering!

Who are you?

I am Marianna Kauriala, the Vice President at Markku Kauriala Ltd Fire Engineering and Fire Safety Design Consultants, and a fire safety designer specialised in evacuation.

What is your company specialized in?

The branch of our engineering office is fire safety engineering and a safety technical design, consultation, expert services and education. Our services include all the functions that are related to the prevention of fire damage and perfect consultation and planning service. We have specialised in performance-based fire engineering. The advantages of this method are considerable cost savings, freer architect planning, the better usability of the premises and the cheaper maintenance costs of fire technical equipment.

Performance-based fire design is today’s planning where the individual properties of the buildings are taken into consideration. As a result, we achieve the best safety level to the building and remarkable savings in construction costs, even 4-6 %. Performance-based fire design is done using verified and validated software to simulate fire, smoke, temperature, radiation, structures and evacuation inside the building.

We also have a certified quality system to ensure our internal top performance.

Tell us about your clients and other key shareholders?

Our clients come from different sectors and sizes vary from very small to very big companies. Our customers are mainly architect offices and construction companies. We have done performance-based fire engineering for example for cruise ships and we also work with shipyards.

What services or products do you offer to other YardMate members?

We offer fire engineering services. Almost every building and renovation project needs a fire technical expert – at least in the building licence permit phase, when building licence authority quite often demands a fire technical plan.

Whether your project is small or big, you can always contact us. In everything our basic principle is to create a cost-efficient and safe solution to the customer. You can call Marianna (+358 50 3712 065) or send an email (marianna.kauriala@kauriala.fi).

What are your expectations for YardMate?

Good networking and co-operation.

What are your future needs regarding personnel?

We kindly accept open job applications. Our line of business is extremely specialised, one learns the trade by doing it.

Anything else you wish to say to us?

Fire Safety engineering is a very important part of building construction, and it should always be taken into consideration. It is a small part of the overall cost but it has a tremendous effect on the end result.

Markku Kauriala Ltd. brought performance-based fire engineering in Finland. It was great to meet Marianna and learn how this 100 % family-owned company creates life-saving solutions for buildings large and small – Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Central Library Oodi and Turku Castle, to name a few.

Photos by Markku Kauriala Ltd and Annika Perho

YardMate has established excellent relations in Poland. In October 2018, around 70 companies assembled in Elblag, Poland in Open to Scandinavia event, to make contacts and prepare for business possibilities between Poland, Finland and Sweden.

The event was skilfully arranged by the Polish Enterprise Europe Network. Ismo Karjalainen from YardMate represented the Finnish maritime industry sector, and we now look forward to building great business relations that benefit both Poland and Finland.

Contact Ismo at +358 400 400 535 to learn how this could benefit your marine industry business.