A lot happened in Lumikko during 2023, and the pace hasn’t slowed down this year. Instead, the focus is even clearer – we want to be the best partner in thermal management solutions – and we work towards the goal every day. Even though the focus is on the future, last year deserves a little memoir.
The new strategy work was completed and our turnover was increased from 5.7 million to 7.1 million. Lumikko’s CEO Kimmo Pyykönen says that, along with these, the most important goal of the year was keeping customer promises.
“Customer experience is the most important thing to us, and in order to be the best partner, we have dug into each of our operations, faced the brutal facts and started developing our operations even better.”
The work is continuous, and it will not be finished in a year. However, there were several successes last year.
“I am happy with our team and the focus of our work. We are serious about what we do and work well as a team. “
This year’s focus is in thermal management solutions for electric working machines and refrigerant investigations
The main industries in which we solve thermal management challenges are the energy and defense industries as well as railway.
“The best partner means that we are fast, flexible, high-quality and reliable. From this point of view, we started the development of our operations and its planning last year.”
How did this actually appear?
“Our quality and design team was strengthened with, among other things, a new project manager and a mechanical designer. Renewing the processes not only makes work more efficient and improves our customer communication, but also makes us more flexible than before.”
Production development was prepared last year and this year the preparations became more concrete.
“We made a significant investment of more than half a million in the production layout reform. The renovation was completed in March 2024 and ramp-up is underway. The new layout enables e.g. more efficient, higher quality and safer production and better working conditions.”
Responsibility investigation work was and is constantly the focus of attention.
“We hired new expertise for responsibility and environmental assessments and have prepared our operations for ISO 14001 certification.”
Better customer experience is the main goal of our development work
Cooling solutions for Finland’s first express tram and Tampere tram extensions
In the field of railway, one of the most significant projects was the delivery of HVAC solutions to Raide-Jokeri, which started operating in November 2023, i.e. Pikaraitiotie 15. Raide-Jokeri also opened up tram traffic to the Espoo side. Read more about the Raide-Jokeri project.
“The railway customers have been Lumikko’s foundation for 30 years and are deep in our DNA.”
All the trams in Tampere have HVAC solutions designed and implemented by Lumikko. In 2023, the cooperation continued.
“Urbanization and public transport development plans are also in line with Lumikko’s will. We want to support the development of sustainable mobility with our high-quality cooling solutions designed for the challenging conditions of the Nordic region.”
