INNOVATION / PONSSE REMAN AND RECYCLING
A RESPONSIBLE COMPANY RECONDITIONS AND RECYCLES Ponsse has extensive experience and knowhow in recycling parts and materials. PONSSE Reman parts are affordable and environmentally friendly. Ponsse’s reconditioning and assembly centre, also known as the Reman workshop, was complemented with the Recycling Center at the beginning of 2020. As a result, the reuse of parts was enhanced and their availability improved.
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he Reman workshop has operated in Iisalmi for a decade. It enhances recycling and improves the availability and quality of parts that can be reused. The Recycling Center, a new centre for increasing recycling, refines parts recovered from Ponsse’s production, logistics and service network so that they can be reused in the best possible way. The PONSSE Reman service is based on recycling and reconditioning used parts, whereas the Recycling Center disassembles and sorts parts that cannot be reconditioned into reusable or recyclable parts.
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“Customers value Reman Parts, and their demand even exceeds supply. The parts are popular, because they are more affordable and environmentally friendly, and they have a factory warranty. The majority of the parts are sold in Finland, but some are delivered to other markets,” says export spare parts manager Mikko Eskelinen. “In the Reman service, it’s very important to have a continuous and steady flow of incoming parts to be reconditioned. Steady workloads ensure better availability of Reman parts,” says Reman team leader Tero Leinonen. By concentrating the recondition-
ing and assembly activities in the Reman workshop, it is possible to ensure a more efficient and factory-like operating model. At the same time, it is possible to improve the back-office processes, such as the procurement and storage of spare parts and the logistics of recovering vehicle frames for reconditioning. “The Reman workshop employs four maintenance mechanics and a team leader. The reconditioning and assembly work is divided between the mechanics by product group. The aim is to centralise product-specific special expertise,” says Leinonen.
