The company story of Euroket Oy
CEO Jussi Mattelmäki says:
Located in Kukonkoivu, Hollola, Euroket Oy is a family business founded in 1989 that imports and sells industrial chains. Euroket was started in Raisio by Aulis Vatja, a long-distance transportation professional. When the time came for Vatja to think about retirement, Markku Mattelmäki seized the opportunity and bought Euroket Ky in 2001. Mattelmäki changed both the company's location and corporate form for the first time. From then on, the company has operated as Euroket Oy initially from Lahti, and since 2009 the company has been based in Kukonkoivu, Hollola. Mattelmäki ran Euroket Oy alone until 2013, when his son Jussi Mattelmäki took control of the company.
- Markku asked me to work for Euroket for many years and I refused for many years because the idea did not appeal to me. At the end of 2012, however, a situation arose regarding my work at the time, that I had had enough of working three shifts, and I called Markku from that position asking if the position was still open? Markku was a bit confused after my many refusals. Thus, after 10 years of training, I can say with all my heart that the solution was absolutely right. I really like my job, which offers a different working day every day. New products, new destinations, new customers and new challenges are on the horizon every day, which keeps the mind fresh, says Jussi Mattelmäki, CEO of Euroket Oy.
In 2017, Euroket Oy hired its first employee and currently the company employs four people. Although the main owner and CEO of Euroket Oy, Jussi Mattelmäki, has taken the reins of the company firmly in his hands, Markku Mattelmäki has not completely stayed aside from the company's operations. He owns 20 percent of the company and serves as the chairman of the board. Euroket Oy has steadily increased its profit and the number of customers. In the most recent fiscal year, Euroket Oy set a record, with a turnover of just over two million euros.
- Since 2015, Euroket has grown little by little very moderately and purposefully with a small, but even more efficient and professional organization. Factors influencing the growth have been good, fast and professional service and, of course, high-quality products, says Jussi Mattelmäki.
The company's wide range of products includes, for example, conveyor chains, roller chains, special chains, sprockets, forged link chains, chains and rubber rollers for small excavators and accessories. Euroket Oy's main customer base includes sawmills, energy plants, heating plants, conveyor equipment manufacturers, retailers, earthmoving contractors and various industrial sectors. CEO Jussi Mattelmäki feels that a wide and diverse customer base is essential for the company's operations.
- We are a small company and we need many small streams, i.e. a wide product repertoire, from which our incoming cash flow is made up.
Great location in Kukonkoivu, Hollola
In 2009, Euroket Oy moved its office from Lahti to Kukonkoivu, Hollola. At the time, the place might have seemed a bit remote, but nowadays the situation is different. In terms of logistics, an important thing is the large Kaukokiido terminal located right next to Euroket Oy, with which the company has worked closely. Lahti's southern ring road, which opened at the end of 2020, has brought Euroket Oy to even better transport links. Jussi Mattelmäki feels that the move to Kukonkoivu has played a big part in the company's growth.
- We have a fast and reliable cooperation with Kaukokiido, which works great even outside office hours, when we can take the shipments to the terminal ourselves. In addition, Kukonkoivus has excellent traffic connections to the new ring road, which provides quick access to, for example, Helsinki, Kouvola, Jyväskylä and Tampere.
About 95 percent of Euroket Oy's sales go by freight and only about 5 percent of the sales are made on site. The company does not have an actual official store at its location, because Euroket Oy's business is mainly wholesale. Euroket Oy is open as usual on weekdays from eight o'clock to four in the afternoon. Sometimes the customers' needs do not fall within the opening hours, and at that time Euroket Oy's personnel are asked about extending the hours. The company's high season always falls in the summer, when the plant has maintenance shutdowns and replaces the new chains and sprockets we deliver.
- Of course, we also give products to customers outside of working hours, if the customer is in a serious and justified hurry for the product. Even in bad emergency situations, we have been able to find a solution by cooperating with customers. Sometimes they even left the cabin in the middle of the sauna to give the customer a rubber roller, Jussi Mattelmäki laughs.
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