Ponsse Plc’s production is located in Vieremä, in the Northern Savonia region. The current factory buildings have been built around the 300 square metre facility that was built by the municipality of Vieremä for machine entrepreneur Einari Vidgrén in 1970.
This is not only where the factory began, but also the Ponsse spirit. Today, the factory has a total of four hectares of floor space.
In autumn 2018, Ponsse commissioned a factory expansion that comprised 1.3 hectares of new production facilities. The expansion is the single largest investment in the company’s history.
The new facilities mean increasingly smooth and flexible production operations, and better productivity. Employees have usually enjoyed long careers at Ponsse. This is why the factory expansion also focused extensively on the well-being and safety of Ponsse’s employees, as well as on workstation ergonomics.
Above all, the new factory stands for better quality. Production is based on the idea that no compromises are ever made over quality.
The amount of testing and quality control increased significantly in the new production process. Every production line ends in testing, ensuring that all manufactured structures are tested before moving on to the main line.
The main line also ends in testing, when the engine and hydraulics are tested in a soundproof test room. Finished machines are transported on lowbed trucks to test logging sites where they undergo final testing in their real operating environment before they are delivered to customers.
