Ponsse at FinnMetko 2008 exhibition
PONSSE PLC PRESS RELEASE 27 AUGUST 2008
Ponsse at FinnMetko 2008 exhibition We have, in our usual Ponsse way, paid attention to our customers' needs and wishes and forwarded those needs and wishes to our product development department for further processing. This has resulted in numerous product improvements and innovations which have been thoroughly tested and taken into production. Our product lines are now more effective than before. In the past year, we have invested in quality improvements on all fronts. In FinnMetko we tell about our renewed products, which have already been praised as excellent. We aim at developing more profitable and reliable forest machines and connected services for our customers. In the process of continuous improvement, we analyse all feedback and strive to rapidly implement improvements in product development. From our harvester line novelties, FinnMetko will introduce the following renewed models for 2008: PONSSE Ergo, Bear and Beaver. Novelties of the harvester head product line are, for example, a new PONSSE H53e harvester head for the Beaver harvester, developed group handling technology, a reinforced PONSSE H8 harvester head for the largest size category - including frame structure solutions developed for track-based machines - and the harvester heads PONSSE 550 and 650, developed for harvesting eucalyptus. Ponsse has the largest offering of crane products in the market with a comprehensive selection of models, including both sliding boom cranes and parallel cranes. As a novelty we will introduce the effective PONSSE C2 sliding boom crane for the Beaver harvester. Forwarders have also taken a step ahead - the PONSSE 10w is our solution for year-round harvesting on soil with poor carrying capacity. There has been demand for hydraulically-expandable and convertible load space both in harvesting of timber as well as bio energy wood, and now solutions from Ponsse are ready for introduction. On the basis of feedback from our customers, Ponsse has developed a built-in hose set, already familiar from the K70+ crane, for the bigger PONSSE K90+ M/S and K100+ M/S cranes. New balanced bogies mean steadier travel, particularly in hilly terrain. Balancing bogies are offered as an optional extra for the Bear, Ergo, and Beaver harvesters, and the Elephant, BuffaloKing, Buffalo, Elk and Wisent forwarders. In our information system section the novelties we introduce include, among others, the Opti5 PC system, the Opti2 separate measuring device used in retrofitting, the fully renewed Opti4G 4.603 information system, the new version of PONSSE LoadOptimizer load scale and renewed office applications. Logger's Inn is a new Ponsse servicing unit, covering all the services needed for highly-used forest machines. Please find further information on the Logger's Inn service entity at the address www.ponsse.com/loggersinn Ponsse is a good partner, as a company or a product and service provider: we exist to help our customers to reach their goals. Now that our production plant is optimally tuned and we are introducing our new forest machines, the support our customers get from us is better than ever before. From our stand 917 you can get a lot of further information on all products presented in FinnMetko. The Product News 2008 magazine is available at our stand, and the information of this bulletin is available in more detail on our website: www.ponsse.com/finnmetko Jämsänkoski 27 August 2008 Jarmo Vidgrén Ponsse Plc. FURTHER INFORMATION Jarmo Vidgrén, Sales and Marketing Director, Ponsse Plc. Tel. +358 40 519 1486 DISTRIBUTION OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki Principal media www.ponsse.com