Finnchain
Specialist environmental technical skills and water treatment solutions
Finnchain Oy is part of the Process Technology Business Area and offers solutions for efficient water purification with environmental engineering applications as its speciality. Managing Director, Leena Tuomikoski, focuses on the company’s development of energy-efficient technical solutions that mitigate the customers’ environmental impact.
Tell us about the operations
“Today, Finnchain is the technological leader in chain scraper systems for efficient wastewater treatment. Our products have a long service life, low energy consumption and recoverable components. We also offer solar cover systems that produce renewable energy and significantly reduce the carbon impact of the customer’s operations. Today, our products and solutions are found in more than 60 countries around the world.”
What is the primary driving force in your segment?
“In general, increasing demands to streamline process flows to help reduce environmental impact and resource consumption. Here, Finnchain is well at the fore of technical development with its operationally reliable chain-driven sludge conveyor systems at water treatment plants. Another example is the increasing need in some parts of the world to convert seawater into drinking water. Here, our scrapers for desalination plants producing fresh water are fully able to meet the increasing demand.”
What other factors generate business opportunities?
“First and foremost, there is a lot going on in terms of legislation to more strictly control environmental impact mitigation generally. Accordingly, tightened requirements on water treatment processes are leading to increased demand for technical solutions that streamline the process and safeguard the quality of the treated water. At Finnchain we welcome this of course and perceive substantial business potential in our customers having to meet the regulatory requirements.”
What about the future?
“I see continued growth for our water treatment solutions and for desalination plants – for us a market experiencing strong growth. In other regards we will continue with our strategy to develop both existing products and to develop new technical solutions in this area. Our aim is to continuously offer customers even better and more sustainable solutions.”
Krister Stenbom, Managing Director, Finnchain Oy