RecycleR – new powerful scrap magnets
Do you handle steel scrap? Do you want help with the demolition of buildings? Problems with handling heavy steel structures? Skanveir is now launching a new product line to address the challenges; Skanveir RecycleR Easily increase productivity with Skanveir RecycleR...
Skanveir Integra series – Plug & play magnetic lifters for plate handling
What do you think? Who knows best, what is needed when handling heavy plates in rough conditions? Listening the voice of the customer has always been a genuine part of Skanveir’s DNA. Customers have unique needs for their production needs and we at Skanveir are used...
Commissioning of control unit of the magnetic lifting beam
We sold a control unit of the magnetic beam to a large customer abroad and I want to share my experiences with it. After all, those units control the operation of the magnetic lifting beam. So at its simplest it switches the magnets on and off. Sounds simple. But, of...
Miilux – Hard from edge to edge
The first thought in the production facilities of Miilux’s steel service center is a surprise. The big halls are full of heavy plates, big machines and semi-finished products and yet everything is clean and in order. Everything is in place, passageways and...
Mika’s journey to Skanveir, part 2/2
After all, there are quite a number of companies for sale. There are good and lousy ones, some of them are unrealistically valued and some realistically valued. When a company is acquired, it requires from the acquirer to have a really deep understanding of the target...
Mika’s journey to Skanveir, part 1/2
In this blog, I’ll tell readers how I got into the lifting business and my relationship with it a little more broadly. At the beginning of my career, I worked for a Finnish world class company in the industry that manufactures paper machines to the global markets....
The bests in the world in a long run
Spartathlon is one of the most challenging ultra-distance foot races in the world. Event is 246km long, and it takes places annually in historic landscapes of Greece. The challenge of the competition is not just about length, but huge differences in altitude, weather...
How magnets are made?
How are lifting magnets made? By finding out needs, designing, calculating and simulating, just about so, in a nutshell. In addition, all the experience that has accumulated in the organization over four decades is needed to get a good outcome. Not all lifting...
On the way to Central Europe
”Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” ”That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” ”I don't much care where –” ”Then it doesn't matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Remarkably, for people in many companies...
How do Elephants and Lifters relate?
First, you need to know that here in Finland we call elephant not only “elephant”, but also “norsu”. According to etymologist Kaisa Häkkinen, word norsu was included in Mikael Agricolas (de facto founder of literary Finnish) texts on 1500-century. Originally it...
Mika Seppänen
CEO of Skanveir Oy