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The Kokemäki-based mechanical engineering company Lehtosen Konepaja has carried out close co-operation with UPCAST for almost 50 years now, and the company’s know-how can be summarised in four words: quality, reliability, agility and flexibility.
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ehtosen Konepaja is a prime example of a classical family enterprise whose global success is rooted in local operations. Focusing on heavy industry, the engineering company produces and develops machine and equipment manufacturing services and manufactures conveyors and conveyor systems as well as industrial blowers as its own products. Established in 1923, the company has always been owned by the same family and grown from a mechanical workshop run by a few people into a corporate group with 140 employees. All of the company’s physical functions are located in South-West Finland. Managing Director Erkki Lehtonen says that the industry’s long history in the area has provided a strong basis for today’s productive – and global – operations.
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– The Satakunta region has a long tradition of mechanical engineering, which is evidenced by the number and quality of operators. Our own customer base consists of international export companies operating within the EU, whose products continue their way to end customers all over the world, Lehtonen comments.
UPCAST’s most important supplier Locality and globality also characterise the co-operation between UPCAST and Lehtosen Konepaja: the physical proximity of the companies’ offices creates good opportunities for developing the co-operation and manufacturing UPCAST® products. – For UPCAST, we manufacture almost all of the company’s mechanical equipment and carry out the necessary assembly work. We
