Ponsse News 3/2021, EN

CUSTOMER AND STAKEHOLDER MAGAZINE 2/2021

FOREST MACHINES HELP FIGHT WILDFIRES PONSSE BRAZIL CELEBRATES ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY

SOLUTIONS ARE DEVELOPED WITH CUSTOMERS THE TREMBLAY FAMILY BUSINESS IN CANADA

EXPERIENCE AND YOUTHFUL POWER

CHANGING CAREERS: LAURA LINKONEVA

PEACE OF MIND AND A NEW CAREER IN THE FOREST

PONSSE NEWS

GREETINGS FROM VIEREMÄ

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Ponsse Plc ISSN 2489-9488 (print) ISSN 2489-9496 (online publication) EDITORIAL STAFF

Juho Nummela, Hanna Lehtonen, Jenny Huttunen, Juha-Matti Raatikainen, Marika Ryytty, Jarmo Vidgren, Juha Vidgren, Marko Mattila, and Jussi Hentunen LAYOUT

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Ponsse Plc ILLUSTRATIONS (PONSSE KIDS)

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Forest machines help fight wildfires 8 WORKING ON SLOPES

Environmentally friendly harvesting on slopes 9 PONSSE’S 17,000TH FOREST MACHINE 10 LAURA LINKONEVA

Peace of mind and a new career in the forest 12 A LOOK AT CANADA’S FORESTS

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12 14 THE TREMBLAY FAMILY BUSINESS IN CANADA

Experience and young power 16 PONSSE MOMENT 18 THINNING

Ponsse’s thinning solutions 20 PONSSE BRAZIL 15 YEARS

Solutions are developed with customers

30 22 EINARI VIDGRÉN FOUNDATION AWARDS FORESTRY PROFESSIONALS 24 LOGGING NEWS 26 USED MACHINES IN POLAND

Maciej Urbanek relies on Ponsse’s dealer 29 PONSSE KIDS 30 PONSSE COLLECTION

t Ponsse, this year has been a time of deep reflection regarding our mission and vision of the future.

These times have emphasised the need to ensure that our purpose is made clear to every Ponsse employee, and that our direction is correct. Our decades-long history and robust company culture are enormously important to us. We also wish to keep an open mind to ensure Ponsse’s future and continuous development. The world is changing quickly.

Sustainable development is a considerable source of inspiration for us. Rapid technological development also brings new sustainable solutions at an ever-increasing pace. Climate change is a test for the whole of humanity, leaving sustainable forestry with a critical mission. As part of sustainable forestry, the work of Ponsse and “We want to be the number our customers is given a deeper one partner in responsible forestry and aim for carbon meaning. The company’s new neutrality in our operations.” purpose, mission and vision are inspiring and binding – we want to be a genuine part of the solution to this problem.

Customer orientation remains at the heart of all our operations, and we now supplement it with our role as part of sustainable forestry. As always, everything starts with the company’s culture and the commitment of its people. A shared enthusiasm has arisen quickly, even though the greatest goals still require a lot of work.

We want to be the preferred partner in responsible forestry and aim for carbon neutrality in our operations. We believe that we can be a better partner for our customers and the natural environment as technology improves. We are intensely committed to the principles of sustainable development, and we believe it is a crucial factor in making our future success possible.

We are known as a manufacturer of forest machines that use the environmentally friendly cut-to-length method. We manufacture the world’s best forest machines and provide our customers with solutions that enable them to operate in the most challenging conditions. Our in-depth customer orientation is the solid foundation of our business. However, everyday actions decide the final results.

Everything relies on skilled and committed people.

Now and in the future, we can only succeed together – customers, employees, and Ponsse.

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Juho Nummela President and CEO

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REPORT / PONSSE FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT

FOREST MACHINES HELP FIGHT

WILDFIRES Ponsse’s firefighting equipment, installed in the load space of a PONSSE forwarder, has been engaged in real firefighting work in the Unites States and Finland. The equipment’s excellent terrain properties and effective extinguishing ability in difficult conditions have made a great impression on professionals.

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One of the advantages of the PONSSE Firefighting equipment installed in forwarders is that it helps to reach locations that are inaccessible by other firefighting equipment.

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ncreasing forest fires and their associated carbon dioxide emissions have serious consequences for climate change. The carbon dioxide emissions of forest fires are significant: the carbon stored in vegetation is released into the air, and the increased concentration of carbon dioxide is absorbed by oceans and vegetation. The increased carbon dioxide levels have global consequences, even though the combustion gases and particles mostly affect local air quality.

Wildfires usually happen far from roads, so it may be time-consuming or even impossible for fire trucks to reach them. Using forest machines to contain and extinguish fires saves time and effort compared to manual work done by firefighters.

At the end of 2020, Ponsse launched firefighting equipment that can be installed in the load space of a forwarder, and it has already been delivered to Chile, Brazil, Germany, Russia, the USA and Finland.

FIRST US FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT DELIVERY GOES TO MILLER TIMBER SERVICES

The firefighting equipment has already seen action in the US, as Miller Timber

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PONSSE’S FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT PERFORMED WELL IN DIFFICULT CONDITIONS. - Lee Miller

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Services assisted the Idaho Department of Lands in stopping wildfires that were threatening the timber producing lands in Northern Idaho USA. “Ponsse’s firefighting equipment performed well in heavy timber and difficult terrain. It can bring a lot of water to a area inaccessible by traditional wildfire equipment. The Ponsse firefighting equipment forwarder cabin provides protection from falling trees and snags, one of the leading cause of wild land firefighter deaths” says Lee Miller, CEO of Miller Timber Services.

“We used the firefighting equipment to hold a active burning fire lines and then to put out the fire along with mopping up hot spots. We have only had the equipment for a short time and fire managers are still learning how to utilize it but it is safe to say the product is a success and will change the way wild land fires are fought in the western US. When using forest machines fewer personnel are need on the ground lowering the exposer to injury or death”, says Miller.

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REPORT / PONSSE FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT

TRUE COMMUNITY SPIRIT IN FIGHTING THE KALAJOKI FOREST FIRES

Professional emergency service personnel from all over Finland and hundreds of volunteers went to work when a record-breaking wildfire broke out between July and August around the village of Rautio in Kalajoki in Finland. In total, the fire claimed 227 hectares of forest.

The fire was Finland’s second worst this decade – only the Muhos forest fire of 2020 was bigger.

The Kalajoki fire took more than two weeks to put out. About one hundred emergency service personnel from nearly every fire service in Finland attended.

The firefighting also included a large number of volunteers, such as local entrepreneurs with their tractors, forest machines and excavators.

Putting out the Kalajoki fire was a true feat of cooperation of all of Finland’s emergency service personnel.

“Things went smoothly because we all operate according to the same principles, and professionals are capable of using the equipment of any unit. For example, a truck coming to Kalajoki could be from

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Kittilä and driven by someone from Kotka, but everyone worked together without a hitch. We sent some 30 people to fight the fire over the course of a week,” says Tuomo Halmeslahti, chief of the Southern Savonia regional rescue services.

PONSSE FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT HELPED COVER THE LARGE AREAS OF KALAJOKI

The Southern Savonia regional rescue services responded to the Kalajoki fire as soon as the request for assistance was received.

“We had prepared for the summer’s wildfires in spring by installing firefighting equipments at Vocational College’s training forwarders. This allowed us to respond immediately once we had arranged transport,” says Halmeslahti.

“Although it must be said that if the forwarder has the connections ready, it only takes half an hour to install the firefighting equipment in the load space,” he adds.

According to Halmeslahti, the trained assistance response team was underway in two hours.

“Rescue operations are always handled by trained personnel; we talk to the forest machine by two-way radio and analyse together where it is safe and useful to go,” he says.

Seppo Kinnunen from Ponsse is part of the Southern Savonia rescue services response unit, and he participated in the firefighting in Kalajoki.

“The off-road capability of the forest machine load space firefighting equipment is absolutely its best feature. Forest machines can usually go where no others can,” says Kinnunen.

“It saves a lot of strength when we don’t have to lay out fire hoses by hand all across the site. The forest machine’s cabin is also quite safe from things like burned-up tree trunks, which were falling here and there in Kalajoki,” says Kinnunen, who works at Ponsse as a technical specialist.

The Kalajoki wildfire was the third fire where Kinnunen had taken the PONSSE Firefighting equipment.

“I have previously participated in fighting a wildfire in Hartola and a bog fire in Taipalsaari, which was actually in

the middle of our prototype testing. That first trial by fire already convinced me that this equipment works.”

The PONSSE Firefighting equipment has a 10 m³ water tank that can be filled with its own pump from a natural water source or the tank of a fire truck.

“The local entrepreneur in Kalajoki helped us top up quickly. They had 28 m3 sludge tanks that could refill the firefighting equipment two or three times,” says Kinnunen.

HIGH PERFORMANCE IN TOUGH TERRAIN

Kinnunen agrees with Tuomo Halmeslahti in attesting to the capability of the firefighting equipment. The off-road capability is a strong point.

“The terrain in Kalajoki featured stony ground that was impossible for any quad bike or other machine to negotiate. The capability to travel and firefight in extreme terrain is in a class of its own, with the water cannon reaching beyond 40 metres and covering 360 degrees. It can put out a lot of fire in one go.”

The product is already excellent, according to Halmeslahti, but further development is underway.

Different water softeners and chemicals have been tested recently for even better fire containment and extinguishing performance in future.

According to chief Halmeslahti, it is difficult to say whether the future will bring more wildfires to Finland, but a warmer climate is certainly not something that will reduce them. He strongly recommends that other rescue service units acquire firefighting tanks.

“We can distribute our equipment and make rescue services capable of meeting firefighting challenges nationwide,” says Halmeslahti.

“We should work with our area’s forest machine contractors and transport companies, as we will need trailers to transport forest machines to fires.”

Halmeslahti praises the collaboration with schools.

Educational institutions park their machines for the summer, the wildfire season, because students are on holiday.

Responding to a fire is a race against time.

“Kalajoki is more than 300 kilometres from Mikkeli.

If similar equipment was closer, the firefighting could have started several hours earlier. We may buy our own carriage, as having our own transport equipment would save us even more time,” says Halmeslahti.

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SPARE PARTS

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Using PONSSE Parts Online, spare parts and manuals for forest machines can be easily ordered on the Internet, round the clock. The prices and availability of parts are shown in real time, and you can easily order your parts from a location of your choosing.

In addition, the service includes useful information, such as spare parts manuals and Instruction Manuals. PONSSE Parts Online can be used for PONSSE forest machines manufactured in 2005 or later, and it can also be used to combine data for multiple machines.

The service has been in operation in Finland since 2016, and it is also available in Sweden, Norway, the UK, Ireland, the USA, France, Russia and Uruguay. The service can be used on computers and mobile devices.

PONSSE Parts Online is part of the PONSSE Manager service, for which you can order credentials free of charge at ponssemanager.com.

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FACTS / HARVESTING ON SLOPES

NETWORK / 17,000TH PONSSE FOREST MACHINE

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

HARVESTING ON SLOPES

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he growing popularity of the environmentally friendly CTL (cut-to-length) method will make working on slopes less damaging to the soil, as well as safer and more effective.

“We design our slope-capable forest machines according to customer needs. We test and develop them with customers in truly demanding conditions in China, Brazil, North America, and Central Europe, for example,” says Marko Mattila, sales, service and marketing director at Ponsse.

Ponsse has invested in the testing and research equipment required to develop slope-working solutions at the Vieremä factory in Finland.

“We have also built an artificial slope where we can investigate and test the slope performance of our products in detail,” says Mattila.

The PONSSE Synchrowinch is one of the most important accessories for CTL forest machines working on slopes.

Compared to alternative manual methods, the Synchrowinch makes machines more productive, environmentally friendly, and safer in all conditions.

PONSSE’S SOLUTIONS FOR WORKING ON SLOPES • Eight-wheeled harvesters and forwarders, combined with balanced bogies, provide good traction, stability, and comfort for the operator • Engines, brakes, and tanks specifically developed for slopes • PONSSE Synchrowinch and other options for working on slopes • CTL forest machine efficiency and productivity – no need to lay cables or wires on slopes by hand • Smooth working – winches allow machines to traverse difficult locations effortlessly Watch the video of our slope working webinar on Ponsse’s YouTube channel: Ponsse Steep Slope Solutions live to tape

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IT’S GREAT TO WORK TOGETHER WHEN TRUST GOES BOTH WAYS In the middle of August, the 17,000th PONSSE forest machine was completed at the Vieremä factory. The machine was received by Tomi Kuusela, managing director of Kuusmoto Oy, together with his spouse Sari Sova.

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omi Kuusela has been interested in cars and machines ever since he was a small boy. Having grown up on his grandparents’ farm, the young man completed a basic degree in forestry and had already taken the wheel of a forest machine before doing his military service.

While the man from Posio has operated forest machines his entire life, he spent the first years of his career working for another employer. Kuusela has always dreamed of having a business of his own, but the dream had to wait for a few years before coming true.

He first became familiar with Ponsse’s forest machines at

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logging sites, and the yellow-andblack logo also decorated his chest during his four and a half year career at Ponsse. Kuusela has fond memories of his educational years with Ponsse across the world, in Brazil and Uruguay. “For years, I had dreamed of working abroad, and Ponsse made it happen. I’m happy I went – I’m sure I would’ve regretted it later if I hadn’t,” Tomi says.

“THE BIRTHDAY MACHINE IS AN EXCELLENT ADDITION TO OUR FLEET”

Founded in 2014 and hailing from Posio in Finland, Kuusmoto Oy currently employs 17 people. They

operate in seven municipalities in Finnish Lapland. The company has a total of nine PONSSE machines, one of which is the 17,000th machine, an Elk forwarder.

Introduced into production in 2005, Ponsse has manufactured a total of 947 PONSSE Elk forwarders and delivered them to over 20 countries.

“We are happy to receive this excellent machine and its plaque.

Our current plan is to put the birthday machine to work in Posio or Ranua. It is an excellent addition to our fleet,” Kuusela says.

“It’s always been great to work with Ponsse, because the trust goes both ways,” he says.

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PONSSE PROFILE / LAURA LINKONEVA

“Forest industries and responsibility go well together. The Finnish welfare state would not exist without forests and forest industries.”

PEACE OF MIND AND A NEW CAREER IN THE

FOREST

Laura Linkoneva, currently studying to become a forest machine operator, recently found herself working on an evening shift in challenging conditions. It was raining and the autumn darkness had descended on the forest. “I asked myself if I would rather be working somewhere else. The answer was simple: absolutely not. This is exactly what I want to be doing,” says Laura, who has pulled a U-turn in her career.

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ntil recently, Laura Linkoneva was known as an investment student and investment activist, who inspired young people and women in particular to get to know the world of investing and saving.

However, years of studying while working, writing, blogging and acting as a social media influencer at the same time had an effect on coping with everything.

“You could say that exhaustion led me to the forest.”

Laura says that she has enjoyed being in the forest since her childhood doing orienteering, scouting and outdoor activities with her dog.

Every time she went to the forest, her anxiety was alleviated and she felt better.

“I started thinking that maybe I should turn the forest into my

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profession. I found information on forest machine operator training online, and I got excited. I filled in the application right there and then, and I haven’t looked back.”

After ten years in Helsinki, Laura has moved to the down-to-earth Pirkanmaa area. During her studies, she lives with her parents in Mänttä-Vilppula, studies in Kuru, and the operator’s work has taken her to Juupajoki and Ruovesi, for example.

“I’m currently looking for a house of my own deep in the forest with no neighbours close by. After finding a home, I’m planning on purchasing some forest land for myself.

It feels like I have had enough of city life already,” says Laura.

A FOREST MACHINE OPERATOR IS LIKE A TREASURER

Laura went into forestry with an

open mind and without preconceptions. It wasn’t until she started her studies that she learned, for example, that there are separate forwarder and harvester machines.

“The diversity, demandingness and amount of responsibility have surprised me positively. Operating the machine is only a small part of the whole job. A good operator is energetic, ambitious and willing to develop their expertise.”

Laura stresses that the forest machine operator is also a treasurer.

“Treasurer is a totally accurate word to describe a forest machine operator who takes care of someone else’s property and gets the forest owner’s capital to produce profit. I work in someone else’s forest just as carefully as I would in my own forest, or even more so.”

A REAL PONSSE GIRL

At the beginning of her studies, Laura decided not to favour any particular machine manufacturer, and wanted to learn how to operate machines of all different brands. She was also happy to operate older machines. As she gained experience, she came to doubt this decision, as machines from one particular manufacturer rose above the others in terms of ergonomics and operator comfort.

“I couldn’t help it. I soon became a real Ponsse girl. Maybe it has something to do with my Savonian roots,” says Laura smiling.

“The PONSSE Wisent suited me better than the other forwarders, and it was nice to work with. I got to operate a Scorpion at school, and now I’m working with a Scorpion King. I’m a fan. Even now, I’m wearing a Ponsse cap, and I’ve invested in Ponsse stock.

Laura will graduate as a forest machine operator through an apprenticeship, which means that theoretical studies are completed at school and practical training is done at the workplace. Laura is employed by Metsä-Multia Oy, a company providing logging and forestry services in central Finland. Work is done in two shifts.

“I always have a more experienced operator as a partner. It’s really nice to get feedback and advice from a professional. We have good cooperation, so it’s nice to go to work,” says Laura thankfully.

“At Metsä-Multia, all the machines have names, and the Scorpion King I operate is called Björn. I talk to Björn like I would to a human partner. I say good morning when I come to work and goodbye when I leave. I praise the machine when it performs well. Björn is my workmate.”

FORESTRY MOTIVATES

Laura says that many of her schoolmates chose the industry through an interest in engines and big machines, as well as operating them. Laura is mostly motivated by her interest in forestry.

“The forest industry and responsibility go well together. The Finnish welfare state wouldn’t exist without forests and the forest industry,” she says.

When it comes to sustainable forestry and respect for the environment, the end result depends a lot on the expertise and attitude of the operator.

“I think that there should be more protected areas, but on the other hand, what is often forgotten when talking about this issue is that the operators make countless good decisions when working in commercial forests. I would like more dialogue in the debate on forestry.”

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REPORT/ PONSSE IN CANADA

PONSSE SUCCEEDS

CANADA IS A NATION OF NEVER-ENDING

IN THE FORESTRY GIANT’S MARKETS

CONIFEROUS FORESTS

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anada’s forest area of 3.5 million square kilometres forms nine per cent of the entire world’s forest area.

In this third most forested country in the world, 92 per cent of forests are in public ownership.

Approximately 80 per cent of Canada’s forest land is located in the boreal coniferous forest zone, extending from coast to coast, from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Black spruce is the undisputed king of the boreal coniferous forest zone.

Other common coniferous tree species include white spruce, balsam fir, American larch and jack pine.

Canada is a country that is almost the same size as Europe, with more than 38 million inhabitants. However, 90 per cent of the population live in a 160-kilometre-wide strip close to the United States border. Thus, most of Canada is a sparsely populated wilderness.

THE NEW MILLENNIUM BROUGHT THE FIRST RETAILER

In the spring of 2000, Ponsse assigned A.L.P.A. Equipment as its dealer in Canada’s eastern provinces and the Gaspé region in Quebec. A.L.P.A. was Ponsse’s first dealer in Canada.

“The philosophies of two family-owned companies came together, marking the beginning of cooperation,” says Eero Lukkarinen, Ponsse’s area director in Canada.

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A few years later, Hydromec Inc., a company that is currently the same size as A.L.P.A., started as a dealer in the Quebec region. Other customer service providers are ReadyQuip Sales and Service in Ontario and Valhalla Equipment in British Columbia.

The next step was to convince contractors that it would be profitable to make large investments in machines that had not yet been tested in Canadian markets.

However, every proper dealer always has a group of customers that rely on their machine dealer and are ready to try new machine models.

It came as no surprise when A.L.P.A. sold the first two machines immediately after becoming Ponsse’s dealer. In May 2000, DMR purchased the PONSSE Ergo harvester equipped with the H73 harvester head, and the heavy-duty 14-tonne PONSSE Buffalo forwarder. They were the first PONSSE machines sold in Canada.

This year, A.L.P.A. Equipment will celebrate its 45th anniversary. Ponsse and the first dealer in Canada have journeyed together for more than 20 years.

A.L.P.A. EQUIPMENT LTD. CELEBRATES ITS 45TH ANNIVERSARY

Established by Armand Landry in 1976, A.L.P.A. Equipment Ltd. has been on a lookout spot to witness the development of the Canadian forest industry. Today, the company is run by Armand’s son Serge

Landry and daughter Linda Landry Firth, who own and manage the company.

The third generation is already involved in the operations of the company.

A.L.P.A. Equipment Ltd. has been a Ponsse dealer in Eastern Canada since 2000, serving New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, as well as the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. The company has 130 employees in five locations, after a new service centre was opened in Moncton this year to supplement those in Balmoral, Fredericton, Edmundston and Truro.

The harvesting conditions in the operating region of A.L.P.A. Equipment vary greatly from coniferous to hardwood-dominated forests, from even terrain to steep slopes and from natural mixed forests to large planted coniferous areas.

In addition to PONSSE forest machines, A.L.P.A. sells, installs and maintains PONSSE harvester heads for track-based harvesting solutions, and acts as a retailer of earth-moving machines.

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anada is one of the forestry giants, measured by forest area and harvesting volume. “As Ponsse aims to be one of the leading companies in the industry across the world, it is obvious that it wants to operate in such significant markets,” says Eero Lukkarinen who has worked as area director in Canada since 2016.

“We have an excellent dealer network, consisting of strong companies that have great potential to grow further and increase their market share.”

South of the boreal coniferous forest zone, in the area of the Saint Lawrence Valley and the Great Lakes, there is a transition zone between deciduous and coniferous forests.

Sugar maple, red maple, beech, northern red oak, white elm, red pine, white pine, Canadian hemlock and yellow birch grow there.

Massive trees, as seen on reality television series depicting the world of logging, mainly grow in rainforests on the western coast and on Vancouver Island. The remaining 95

Canada’s 8,000 annual forest fires destroy approximately two million hectares of forest. Of indigenous insects, mountain pine beetle in the west and eastern spruce budworm in the east cause sudden and extensive deaths of trees. The mountain pine beetle has spread to half of British Columbia’s commercial shore pine forests. The

per cent of Canada’s forests are ideal for CTL harvesters.

“The transition to the cut-to-length (CTL) method is making good progress, and we can offer a comprehensive product range for these conditions. The number of thinning sites is increasing and rubber wheeled machines are becoming more popular,” says Lukkarinen, describing logging trends in Canada.

Ponsse has sold roughly a thousand harvester heads, harvesters and forwarders in Canada. In addition to rubber wheeled machines, contractors use track-based harvesters designed for Canadian conditions. As a result, demand for harvester heads is exceptionally high compared with many other markets.

“Ponsse’s dealers have also been responsible for building a maintenance network. Their service attitude has been in line with the Ponsse spirit,” says Lukkarinen.

“They want to offer a high service level. Spare parts stocks are abundant to keep contractors’ machines up and running in productive operations.”

eastern spruce budworm destroyed the leaves of trees in an area of 13.5 million hectares in the province of Quebec in 2020. The Canadian government and the industry are collaborating to harvest and process these trees before their death. The dead trees are used to some extent in the biomass industry.

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REPORT/ PONSSE IN CANADA

THE FIRST SCORPION IN CANADA

LES FORESTIERS MARCEL TREMBLAY & FILS

EXPERIENCE AND YOUNG POWER

IN A FAMILY BUSINESS For the Tremblays, expertise in forestry runs in the family. Marcel founded the family business in 1979. Two generations later, the joy of the work still spurs the operations as his grandchildren are about to take charge of the company.

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orestiers Marcel Tremblay & Fils has progressed a long way from the time when Marcel started harvesting timber in the province of Quebec with a chainsaw and a forwarder. Forest machines have developed a great deal, and today they are equipped with computers that enable getting real-time data on the dimensions of logs. The machines’ location is known with the help of GPS, and through a network connection, the data can be sent directly to the plant.

Mathieu, 33, Francis, 31, and Simon, 23, represent the new generation of the Tremblay family business. The brothers became shareholders three years ago, and they own 50 per cent of the company, with their father Bertrand owning the other half.

In the course of the past few years, Bertrand, 59, has left the daily work with forest machines and focused on managing

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the company’s finances. He is transferring the responsibility for the company to his sons, while gradually preparing for his retirement.

THE EXPERTISE OF A NEW GENERATION

When the sons joined the company’s operations, they also brought some of their friends with them. The company’s employees are now younger than ever: their average age is 33 years.

When this workforce enters the forest, there are few grey-haired ones in the group. They listen to punk rock and talk about snowmobiles, jet skis and other outdoor hobbies.

“We have a great atmosphere at work, and we like spending time together. This helps us find new employees, as we are always in need of good workers,” Mathieu says.

The company trains its operators itself,

and has 14 employees operating its three machine chains. A new trainee is taken on almost every year.

“By training new operators, we secure the future of our company,” Bertrand says. He entrusted the expensive forest machines to his sons before they were 20 years old.

The quality of life is a priority for the team, which works approximately 42 weeks in a year.

“We take a week’s holiday in the summer, a week during the hunting season and two weeks at Christmas. There is also a pause of 4–6 weeks in the work in the spring when the ground is too wet,” says Mathieu, who is the father of five-year-old Logan.

Francis also has two sons: Aleck, 5 years old, and Jayce, 4.

“Our children visit us in the forest whenever they can.”

According to Mathieu, the family business acquired its first PONSSE machine, which was a Dual machine, in 2004. They immediately liked the machines, as well as the local service offered by Hydromec.

Since then, Ponsse has been the reliable machine supplier of Forestiers Marcel Tremblay & Fils.

The company also purchased the first Scorpion delivered to Canada in 2014.

“The machine has so much technology that it may scare a beginner,” says Mathieu, who was the first Scorpion operator in the company.

The Scorpion, equipped with an H6 harvester head, is still an important machine for the company. They have also acquired two track-based Eltec harvesters with a PONSSE H7 harvester head.

All the forwarders owned by the family business are PONSSE machines. In July 2021, it received a brand new Elephant King equipped with an Active Crane K121 loader.

“With the new forwarder, we can improve the efficiency of our work since 20 per cent more wood fits in every grapple load,” Mathieu says.

“If we don’t go forward, we will end up going backward. I hope that ten years into the future, my sons will still continue going forwards. Not just for the money, but because they like working together, as a family. This is what I want to teach them,” Bertrand concludes.

PONSSE DEALERS CANADA A.L.P.A. EQUIPMENT LTD. BALMORAL, NB 258 Drapeau St. Balmoral, NB, E8E 1H3 (506) 826 2717 balm@alpaequipment.com www.alpaequipment.com/

A.L.P.A. EQUIPMENT LTD. EDMUNDSTON, NB 470 rue Principale Saint-Jacques, NB, E7B 1Y1 (506) 735 4144 edston@alpaequipment.com www.alpaequipment.com/

A.L.P.A. EQUIPMENT LTD. FREDERICTON, NB 289 HWY 105 Maugerville, NB, E3A 5G8 (506) 452 9818 fton@alpaequipment.com www.alpaequipment.com/

A.L.P.A. EQUIPMENT LTD. TRURO, NS 69 Hub Centre Drive Upper Onslow, NS, B6L 0C8 (902) 897 2717 truro@alpaequipment.com www.alpaequipment.com/

VALHALLA EQUIPMENT INC. 7791 South Kelly Road Prince George, V2K 2H5 +1 (250) 301 4486 dan@valhallaequipment.ca

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HYDROMEC INC. 2921, boul. Wallberg Dolbeau-Mistassini, G8L 1L6 (418) 276-5831 www.hydromec.ca/

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CAPTIVATING

MAPLE SYRUP

Maple syrup occupies nearly the position of a religion in Canada, especially in Quebec.

When the temperature rises above the freezing point in the spring, sugar maple trees begin to produce sap to feed their buds. Collecting sap in warm sunshine with family and friends offers a great pastime after a long winter.

Thousands of years ago, the first people living in Canada learned how to collect sap by cutting boughs or making a hole in the tree. At that time, sap was used to make maple toffee by boiling. The product could be preserved for months and was one of the only sources of sugar. Sap was also used for cooking venison.

Today, techniques have been developed further, and maple syrup is very popular.

Making one litre of syrup takes 40 litres of sap. One notch made in a tree produces approximately 10 litres of sap in a day at best.

Two notches can be cut in the largest trees. In addition to the most popular sugar maple trees, silver maple and red maple also produce sap.

Canada produces more than 70 per cent of the maple syrup in the global market. Of this, the share of the province of Quebec is 92 per cent.

Growing interest and demand have increased production in the past few years at a rate of 10 per cent a year. In 2020, Canadian producers made 54 million litres of maple syrup, which were sold for $560 million.

Climate change is threatening some of the southern maple forests, as the optimal conditions move north and insects cause a hazard. In the north, people are assisting in the migration by planting maples that will have optimal growing conditions in 30–50 years’ time. At the moment, the northern border of the growth of sugar maple trees is located at the region of Lac-Saint-Jean.

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PONSSE MOMENT PONSSE Fox feels at home at thinning sites and in soft terrain.

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CASE / THINNING OPERATIONS

PONSSE SOLUTIONS FOR

THINNING OPERATIONS As forestry is becoming more focused on thinning, we need tools to suit the job.

PONSSE Scorpion, combined with the lightest-weight PONSSE H5 harvester head, is a fantastic combination for thinning operations.

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hinning is all about good planning, and you also need your machine to have good visibility and ergonomics for the operator. A good all-round harvester can handle all the forestry work in one location for the entire forest’s life cycle.

Unnecessary detours in the forest create more trails, which should be as straight as possible.

“Operators should not damage the remaining forest with the machine’s tracks or crane. We must plan our work in such a way that we drive as little as possible on the tracks we create,” says Metsäkonepalvelu Oy’s forest machine operator Hannu Pekkarinen.

The space between tracks is very important.

PONSSE Scorpion is very stable, which makes it possible to use a long boom, and by doing so,

Watch a recording of our webinar on thinning on the Ponsse YouTube channel – Solutions for thinning operations

the operators can keep the space between tracks reasonable.

“Operators have to focus on seeing what they’re doing from the cab: the felling direction of the trees and the movements of the grapple. To me, it seems the Scorpion has the best grapple visibility,” says Metsäkonepalvelu Oy’s forest machine operator Paavo Ahtiainen.

Current track solutions also make it possible to work all year round in conditions with poor load carrying capacity.

“The wide tracks help to spread the load and damage the soil less. Improve the load and you improve capacity. “The wide tracks help to spread the load and damage the soil less. Improve the load and you improve productivity”, says Pekkarinen.

METSÄKONEPALVELU OY •Established in 1970 • Metsäkonepalvelu Group has approximately 170 employees • Headquarters in Hämeenlinna, Finland • Group has two subsidiaries: Kone-Yijälä Oy and MKP Sverige AB • Group provides services in Southern and Central Finland and also near Eksjö in Sweden.

• Metsäkonepalvelu Group harvests more than 2.7 million cubic metres of wood per year.

• Company’s fleet has 23 Ponsse machines.

H5 HARVESTER HEAD Measurements Minimum weight 900 kg Lenght 1335 mm Width 1240 mm Height without rotator 1350 mm

Operators must plan their work to reduce driving

PAAVO AHTIAINEN

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Feed roller Feed system 3 feed rollers Feed force: 19 KN Feeding speed: 6 m/s Maximum opening: 530 mm

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PONSSE NETWORK / PONSSE BRAZIL 15 YEARS

PONSSE CELEBRATES ITS 15TH YEAR IN BRAZIL

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

ARE DEVELOPED WITH

CUSTOMERS Ponsse is celebrating 15 years of operation in Brazil. The company has been serving its customers in Brazil with more than 300 employees at 11 different sites across the country.

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xcellent production capacity and potential growth of cultivated forests were the main reasons that took Ponsse to Brazil in the first place. The area’s possibilities are still attracting the Finnish forest machine manufacturer.

The 15-year journey is filled with success stories and product development. The company has been able to distinguish itself through sustainable solutions that meet the requirements of local customers.

“It wasn’t an easy task to start operations in a huge market, where Ponsse’s major competitors are already present. After 15 years, we have secured our position in the market area: we keep growing and learning together with our customers and partners,“ says Ponsse Latin America Ltda’s managing diretor Fernando Campos.

Ponsse’s years in Brazil have accelerated the R&D of forest machines. Market demand in the area creates

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opportunities for the forest machine manufacturer to develop new solutions.

PONSSE ESTABLISHED ITSELF IN A CENTRAL LOCATION

The company’s story in Brazil began in 2006, when a factory was established in Mogi das Cruzes. The factory focused on manufacturing harvester heads suitable for harvesting eucalyptus. The country’s biggest timber producers are in the vicinity.

The operations changed in 2008, and Ponsse concentrated its harvester head production in Finland.

Regardless of the changes, Ponsse rooted itself in Mogi das Cruzes, a strategic location close to São Paolo.

An industrial area was built in the vicinity to support operations.

At the Brazilian market Ponsse has large industrial

customers with PONSSE Full Service agreements and they need versatile solutions.

“Machines run about 5000 hours per year, around the clock every day of the week. The operations demand a strong service network near the customers. On top of Ponsse’s industrial customers, together with our partners in Brazil, Timber and Sotreq, we can support the different sized companies and loggers,” Campos says.

Since 2006, more than 800 Ponsse forest machines and harvester heads have been supplied to customers in Brazil. The market area has seen major investments in recent years, and fast-growing forests are certainly meeting the needs of the pulp industry.

Managing director Fernando Campos says that the promising development in the cultivated wood sector in Brazil strengthens the country’s position across the globe.

“Sustainable alternatives intended for the consumer sector are based on renewable resources.

We are following this development and creating solutions that are more responsible than ever and meet the strict requirements in the sector.”

STEEP SLOPES IN BRAZIL HAVE PROMOTED PONSSE’S PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The PONSSE Synchrowinch solution has been developed further with customers. The solution offers new possibilities for harvesting steep slopes.

Harvesters and forwarders can be used on steep slopes which previously were harvested manually or with semi-mechanical systems.

In addition, productivity and safety are improved with other solutions such as the inclination leveller of the crane stand, sliding boom crane and eight driving wheels.

Compared to other international sites, operations in the area are very intense. A lot of useful data and details about the performance of the devices are received from Brazil. This is accelerating the development of even more efficient solutions to tackle practical needs in the network.

The Brazilian market and customers’ wishes also advanced the development of the PONSSE H9 harvester head. More than 75 per cent of commercially cultivated wood in Brazil is eucalyptus (Source: Brazilian Tree Industry Ibá, 2020). Growing demand for debarked wood has increased the need for harvester heads that can strip the bark from trees and provide high-quality wood for industry. The H9 harvester head can handle various cultivated tree species in large numbers.

The capacity of the Ponsse Elephant King forwarder was initially increased to meet the needs of the Brazilian market.

PONSSE IN BRAZIL 2006 Ponsse Brazil is established in Mogi das Cruzes. The assembly of eucalyptus harvesting heads begins at the new unit.

2009 Ponsse opens its first branch in the state of Bahia.

2013 To enable harvesting in the demanding and steep Brazilian terrain, Ponsse develops technical solutions to enable harvesters and forwarders to be operated safely on steep slopes.

2016 Celebration of 10 years in Brazil and a dealer partnership with Timber begins.

2008 Ponsse concentrates the production of harvester heads in Finland. Ponsse’s other operations in Brazil continue in the Mogi das Cruzes area.

2010 Ponsse strengthens its foothold in Brazil. The first full-service agreement is signed and two new locations are opened in Brazil.

2015 A new Ponsse unit is established in Telémaco Borba to provide aftersales services.

2017 A new branch is opened in Venda Nova do Imigrante to serve full-service agreements

2018 Ponsse announces another distributor in Brazil: Sotreq represents the Ponsse brand for the retail market in the state of Minas Gerais.

2020 Another Ponsse branch is opened in Lençois Paulista to offer a full-service agreement.

2019 Ponsse expands its operations to the States of Mato Grosso do Sul and Alagoas, being one of the pioneer brands in mechanisation in these areas. The implementation of ISO 9001 quality management begins.

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15 years of Ponsse in Brazil!

Ponsse H7 HD Euca head, designed specifically for harvesting eucalyptus, is brought to market.

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NEWS / EINARI VIDGREN FOUNDATION

Kimmo Hokkanen

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MARKKU ERONEN NEVER HAD ANY DOUBTS ABOUT HIS FUTURE CAREER: HIS DREAM HAD ALWAYS BEEN TO WORK IN THE FOREST. PAAVO RAUTIO AND MARKKU ERONEN RECEIVED LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

THE EINARI VIDGREN FOUNDATION

AWARDS MERITED FORESTRY PROFESSIONALS FOR THE 16TH TIME EINARI AWARD GIVEN TO KIMMO HOKKANEN

Kimmo Hokkanen from Mikkeli is a second-generation machine contractor. Metsäkone Hokkanen Oy was established in 1992, and its roots date back to the 1960s, when Kimmo’s father, who is currently one of the company’s shareholders, started as a machine contractor.

Kimmo Hokkanen has developed a performance-based pay system for his company’s operators: a job well done deserves to be

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rewarded. Alongside the performance-based pay, the company has held on to quality, its most valuable asset. There can be no compromises on quality. Metsäkone Hokkanen is also one of the shareholders of Kasiforest Oy, a company operating in the region of Southern Savonia.

Established in 2010 for overall contracting, Kasiforest is a joint venture of eight machine companies. Kimmo Hokkanen is the chairman of its Board of Directors.

Paavo Rautio from Pello was born in 1949. He grew up in a family of ten children. He became accustomed to working ever since he was a young boy and started harvesting operations with his father and one of his brothers in the 1960s, first by using a horse and later with machines. Over the decades, the company has grown into Metsärautio Oy, now run

by Paavo’s sons Hannu and Teemu Rautio. Hannu’s son Oscar represents the third generation of the family in the company’s operations. At the beginning of the 2000s, Metsärautio operated for eleven years in Southern Finland, with the company’s machines and workers returning to Pello after job opportunities opened up. Paavo Rautio’s goal has been to build sustainable business operations for the next generations as well.

Markku Eronen never had any doubts about his future career: his dream had always been to work in the forest. Brothers Ossi and Markku started a machine business in Kiihtelysvaara in 1978 through peat and forest contracting. At the beginning of the 1990s, the company discontinued peat contracting and has focused exclusively on harvesting ever since.

Markku Eronen follows a straightforward set of rules in harvesting, which he has also emphasised for his employees: the quality of work must always be so high that you can always take pride in it.

Paavo Rautio

Markku Eronen

SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS

The foundation issues annual special recognition awards to people involved in wood harvesting research and development, industry education development, and those increasing awareness of and recognition for the industry. This year, seven special recognition awards were given.

One of this year’s recipients is Kari Huotari, a forest industry trainer at Työtehoseura. He has had two careers in the forest industry: first as a logger and later as a teacher. He completed all teacher studies alongside his work. According to Kari Huotari, practical teaching, demonstrations and training in real-life situations are the best tools when training future forestry professionals.

Kari Huotari

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LOGGING NEWS / 2021

LOGGING NEWS

PONSSE FINLAND’S MOST REPUTABLE COMPANY FOR THE FOURTH YEAR IN SUCCESSION PONSSE BISON THE BEST FOREST MACHINE OF THE YEAR The PONSSE Bison forwarder was selected as the best forest machine of 2021. The annual award is given by the respected French Bois International forest magazine. Its jury consists of forest industry contractors and professionals.

Although PONSSE Bison looks like a conventional forwarder, it is full of revolutionary technology. Its advanced transmission significantly improves Bison’s productivity, especially over longer distances, while maintaining good fuel economy. The stepless CVT transmission enables higher driving speeds. The Active Frame system guarantees comfort: it helps operators to keep going on logging sites.

THE JAVELIN PROSPECT MANUELA ROTUNDO JOINS PONSSE’S SPONSORSHIP Ponsse views sponsorship as collaboration that aims to promote the goals of both parties. We believe that sponsorship works best when our partners share our values.

The newest athlete sponsored by Ponsse is Manuela Rotundo from Uruguay. This 16-year-old javelin prospect has already won multiple championships in Uruguay and South America.

THE PONSSE MOUNTAIN BIKE TEAM CAN BE FOUND IN CANADA Canadian forest contractor Christian Roy started cycling at a young age. He took part in his first road race at the age of 10. Eventually he tried mountain biking and fell in love with the sport. Roy competed actively until his first son was born.

Over the years, the family’s two sons, Xavier and Jacob, have begun competing in mountain biking just like their father. The Ponsse Mountain Bike Team was born in the spring of 2019. Ponsse is sponsoring the team’s journey.

“Ponsse’s values are close to our family’s values and we really like Ponsse’s brand, colour scheme and philosophy,” Christian Roy sums up.

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In the minds of Finnish people, Ponsse is the most reputable company in Finland in 2021, ahead of Kone and Supercell. A total of 9,265 Finns participated in the survey.

T-Media’s annual Reputation&Trust survey identifies the reputation of companies operating in Finland among Finnish people as an average value of eight different dimensions. This was the fourth year in succession for Ponsse as Finland’s most reputable company, as the company was also ranked first in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

“We accept this recognition with a humble and grateful spirit. It feels great that our story is bearing fruit and our

The award was received by Juha Vidgren.

thoroughly customer-driven way of working is ranked so highly. I would like to thank our entire Ponsse family: every Ponsse employee and customer, and their families, as well as our stakeholders

across the world. No one can accomplish much on their own – we do this and succeed together,” says Jarmo Vidgren, Chairman of Ponsse Plc’s Board of Directors.

NEW PONSSE ACADEMY TRAINING CLASS FOR A UNIVERSITY IN ST PETERSBURG The Ponsse Academy training class was opened at the St Petersburg State Forestry University in September.

The class is expected to train more specialists for the growing needs of the forest harvesting sector in Russia. Ponsse has equipped the university with a PONSSE Full Simulator. ′′Ponsse wants to increase the number of future specialists who are skilled in modern, efficient and environmentally friendly logging. Future specialists will then be able to work in our clients’ companies and with our partners, and of course we need specialists in Ponsse’s dealership network,” says OOO Ponsse´s Managing Director Jaakko Laurila.

Ponsse Adacemy was founded in 2005. A vital part of Ponsse Academy’s operations is to train and develop the skills of Ponsse’s employees and partners. It’s a

way to ensure the customers get valuable service from the industry’s top experts.

Another important aspect of Ponsse Academy is the cooperation with the industry’s

schools. The cooperation in Russia has already been active for 15 years.

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PONSSE NETWORK / SECOND-HAND MACHINES IN POLAND

MOST OF THE FORESTS IN POLAND ARE CONIFEROUS

SECOND-HAND MACHINE TRADE REQUIRES

SPECIAL TRUST For Maciej Urbanek, cooperation with Ponsse’s Polish dealer CDN Ergo Sp. z o.o., means easy access to maintenance, quick service, and professional results. Trustworthy relationships are important in the used machine business. “When the cooperation continues as before, everything is as it should be,” says Urbanek.

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akład Usług Leśnych Grzegorz Urbanek is a forest service company which has focused on providing services for state-owned forests since its inception in 1996. The company is led by Grzegorz Urbanek, with his son Maciej Urbanek also involved in the operations.

“I have been helping my father since I was little, and I joined the company properly in 2012 as a co-owner. Now I train and assist operators as my father’s time is spent running the company and doing administrative work,” says Maciej Urbanek.

The company employs 10 people and works with one subcontractor. According to Maciej, the company has survived the coronavirus period without significant problems and currently has felling contracts for a total of 75,000 m3.

“In 2020, one of our machine chains

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had a three-month downtime while the other one has been at work all the time.

The demand for wood is very high and we have virtually no breaks. We work mainly in pine forests and harvest 5,000–7,000 m3 per month with our harvesters.”

THE URBANEKS TRUST PONSSE

The company started working in the Polish forests using tractors and forest trailers. They bought their first harvester second hand in 2015. When the storm damage of the following year gave impetus to the purchase of another machine, they chose Ponsse as the brand.

“Now our machine stock consists of two PONSSE Elk forwarders as well as the Ergo and Beaver harvesters. In addition, we have other machines needed for forestry work, such as a new tractor with a forest trailer.”

Maciej Urbanek has been impressed

by the quality of the Ponsse dealer’s aftersales service and its availability. Having tried other brands and their maintenance services, he appreciates Ponsse’s desire to get the machine in order quickly and back to productive work in the forest.

“Assistance is available in the evenings, at weekends and even remotely if necessary. All in all, the PONSSE forest machines are user-friendly. I can sit with a new operator in a spacious comfortable cabin and train them in the operation of the machine,” he says.

SERVICE AND COOPERATION ARE VERY IMPORTANT

According to Maciej’s experience in buying used machines, in addition to the operating hours, the seller and the machine’s country of origin are also important.

“In terms of machine quality, second hand machine maintenance and preparation, other companies do not offer the

same level of service as the Ponsse dealer in Poland.

When buying a machine from CDN Ergo SP. z.o.o., I can rest assured that if something is broken or doesn’t work as agreed, it will be fixed without question.”

The Urbaneks’ company’s operations are concentrated in the Zielona Gora and Wrocław regional administrations in western and south-western Poland. It provides a wide range of services in the field of timber harvesting, tree breeding and forest management as a main contractor.

“We need both bigger and smaller machines. We have harvesters suitable for thinning forests that are about 30 years old. The Elk is perfect for us as a general-purpose machine and has also shown its strength in uneven terrain.

I definitely want the PONSSE Buffalo as my next forwarder because it’s a little stronger and more suitable for challenging terrains.”

Maciej Urbanek says that they have no plans to expand their machine stock, rather to modernise it. Next year, we are planning to replace one of the older machines with a new PONSSE Ergo harvester.

The state, the main owner of forests in Poland, manages all its forests through State Forests National Forest Holding (Państwowe Gospodarstwo Leśne Lasy Państwowe).

Forests cover almost 30% of the total area of Poland. Almost 79% of the more than 9,258 million hectares of forests belong to the state. More than 68% of the forests are coniferous, of which more than 58% are pine and about 6% spruce.

The most common deciduous tree species are oak, birch and beech.

The state forest sector employs around 25,000 people, while the private sector and forestry employ more than 29,000 people. This arrangement is unique in Europe.

Nearly 80% of the country’s medium-sized forests are managed privately, and it offers great opportunities to develop forest management and impact the timber market and forest services. The forests are owned by the state, but the timber industry, services and labour have been transferred almost entirely to the private sector.

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FOR ESTS PR OVI DE

A LIVELIHOOD, HOBBIES AND A DREAM JOB

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ntrepreneurship is close to our hearts at Ponsse. Our special connection with forests over generations unites us with our customers and partners worldwide.

Juho Kemppainen is a 12-year-old living in Hyrynsalmi in the Kainuu region of Finland. He is a prime example of a young man with entrepreneurial spirit and the right attitude to work. In Finland, he is known for handmade wooden torches, which are sold under the Jätkä-Juho brand.

Juho has grown up in an entrepreneurial family, in the middle of the forest. Chores and earning a livelihood from the forest are natural parts of life for him. He learned to drive a tractor at the age of three, and he hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps and start a business related to the forest.

He has already taken the first steps.

Living in the countryside, Juho has a natural connection with forests: he spends time there with his friends and participates in forestry work with the other men of the family. Trees are planted in the spring, and Juho participates in clearing work and in handling windfalls with his own chainsaw together with his father. In the autumn, he picks berries with his mother and siblings. In the winter, he makes handmade wooden torches with the whole family.

His hobbies are also related to the forest. He goes hunting for birds and elk with his family, and he qualified for a hunting licence last autumn. The terrain near his home also provides an excellent setting for motocross.

Ponsse follows Juho’s journey as a future entrepreneur and young man living in the countryside, where the forest provides the family with a livelihood, and Juho with hobbies, a growth environment and the dream job of his future.

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COLOUR THE PICTURE AND SEND IT BY 1 DECEMBER 2021 to Ponsse, Vieremäntie 22, 74200 Vieremä, Finland.

You can also send a photo of the picture to ponssenews@ponsse.com.

Remember to include your contact information to participate in the prize draw!

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MEN’S OUTDOOR JACKET

WOMEN’S OUTDOOR JACKET

Product number 1559, sizes S–4XL

Product number 1560, sizes 36–46

The outer fabric of the jacket is a mixture of recycled polyester and organic cotton (65/35%), and it is moisture protected with an environmentally friendly PFC-free water repellent treatment. Stretch panels on the mid-body and sleeves of the jacket increase freedom of movement. The cuffs, hem and hood are adjustable. Length from shoulder to hem in size L: 80 cm. Available in sizes S–4XL

The outer fabric of the jacket is a mixture of recycled polyester and organic cotton (65/35%), and it is moisture protected with an environmentally friendly PFC-free water repellent treatment. Stretch panels on the mid-body and sleeves of the jacket increase freedom of movement.

The cuffs, hem and hood are adjustable.

Material: 65% recycled polyester, 35% organic cotton

Material: 65% recycled polyester, 35% organic cotton

Did you know that Ponsse Collection includes products made partly or 100% from recycled material?

PINK REFLECTIVE BEANIE

BLACK REFLECTIVE BEANIE

Product number 1404

Product number 1291

A pink reflective beanie made in Finland.

The beanie has an EN471 certified reflective print.

A black reflective beanie made in Finland with a Ponsse logo. The beanie has an EN471 certified reflective print.

Material: 95% cotton, 5% elastane

Material: 95% cotton, 5% elastane.

WOMEN’S MERINO WOOL BEANIE

BLACK MERINO BEANIE

Product number 1561

Product number 1557

Gray merino wool beanie made in Finland with faux fur tassel. Ponsse logo on the rolled cuff. This is a Key Flag product.

A black merino wool beanie made in Finland with a Ponsse logo on the front.

Material: 100% merino wool

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MEN’S LIGHT PADDED JACKET

WOMEN’S LIGHT PADDED JACKET

Product number 1554, sizes S–4XL

Product number 1555, sizes 36–46

Lightly padded. The outside of the jacket is black with Ponsse details, silver grey inside. Articulated sleeves, a breast pocket and side pockets with zips, fixed hood and adjustable hem. Recycled material used in the outside fabric and wadding. Sizes: S–4XL.

Lightly padded. The outside of the jacket is black with Ponsse details, silver grey inside. Articulated sleeves, side pockets with zips, fixed hood and adjustable hem.

Recycled material used in the outside fabric and wadding. Sizes: 36-46.

Material: 100% recycled polyamide, wadding: 100% recycled polyester.

Material: 100% recycled polyamide, wadding: 100% recycled polyester.

Material: 50% merino wool, 50% acrylic

CHILDREN’S GRADIENT QUILTED JACKET

CHILDREN’S PONSSETRON BEANIE

Product number 1556, sizes 100–150 cm

Product number 1547

The outer fabric is made of recycled polyester.

The jacket has a detachable hood and zipped pockets. Ponsse rubber badge on the chest.

Sizes: 100–150 cm

A children’s beanie made in Finland with a stylish Ponssetron print.

Material: 95% cotton, 5% elastane

Material: Outer fabric: 100% recycled polyester. Lining: 100% polyester. Padding: 100% polyester

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From logging sites to the

TOP OF THE FOREST MACHINE INDUSTRY “Einari was a great man, no question.

What’s best, however, is when a great man is like everyone else.”

– FINNISH MAGAZINE METSÄLEHTI

“Forest machine giant Ponsse was built by a man with a practical education.”

ENGLISH EDITION COMING SOON!

– FINNISH NEWSPAPER MAASEUDUN TULEVAISUUS

Einari Vidgren’s Journey, is the true story of a boy from a small rural village who made his way from remote logging sites to the top of the global forest machine industry. However, he did not succeed on his own: the book highlights Einari’s legacy – the art of working together.

The story presents Einari’s own sense of humour and situational awareness, as well as the experiences of a man living in the harsh countryside. The history, starting from Einari’s childhood, helps to get an idea of the background of Ponsse’s values and the numerous insights and phrases which Einari used to build the strengths of Ponsse Plc, the company he established.

The bestseller loved by its readers will be available in English later this year. The sales outlets and the Publication Date will be specified later.