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Heatmasters takes the responsibility for the whole package including heat treatment, blasting, painting, other surface treatment, and transportation with its cooperation partners according to customer’s requirements. This gives the customer an opportunity to focus on its core competencies and make his life more hassle-free.

Utilizing a combination of existing resources in the delivery chain requires openness and true will to improve things. In other words, the best results are achieved by planning the processes together with all process owners. This was exactly what Sami Marjanen (Haapasaari Works Oy), Erik Eroma (Heatmasters Lämpökäsittely Finland Oy), Mikko Hannula (KSP-Kaarina Oy), and Jaakko Heikonen (Paimion Kuljetus Oy) have learned recently.

Heat treatment in Turku Service Center

”We are emphasizing quality, safety, and improvement in our operations. As a good example, we have deployed weekly “Elmeri+” reporting for continuous improvement. We review the operations with the personnel to keep an active dialogue and to be able to react immediately to improvement suggestions. We have extended our ISO 9001:2008, ISO 17663:2009, and OHSAS 18001:2007 certifications to apply also the Turku Service Center in September 2016. This is an important milestone in reaching our targets and desired levels in daily operations. And this same high level of quality we are now able to offer in our value-added services thanks to carefully selected partners”, says Ilkka Mujunen, President and CEO of Heatmasters.

”We are transporting the frames for heat treatment to our Service Center in Turku. After heat treatment the frames will be taken to surface treatment (heat treatment blasting, painting, etc.) to Mikko Hannula’s team at KSP-Kaarina Oy”, says Erik Eroma, Head of Turku Service Center.

Visual inspection of the welds is an important step in the process. Defected areas are marked and delivered back to customers for corrective actions. Also, new measures that save the environment have been introduced by Mikko. For example, a water-soluble alternative has been found for primary paint.

From the city of Kaarina, the primary coated frames continue to the warehouse of the end customer by Paimion Kuljetus (Paimio Transportation). By adjusting together with Jaakko (Paimion Kuljetus) and Sami (Haapasaari Works) the needed timetables with the current transportation routes the team ended up into a cost-efficient, optimized solution. The learning curve was very steep thanks to adjusting the proven way of working.

“Regular discussions about transportation with Jaakko continuously improve the quality of the total package. Paimion Kuljetus provides safe and on-time transportation”, Eroma continues.

Heatmasters want to help its customers to focus on their core competencies and offers heat treatment, blasting, painting, and transportation as a single, optimized package. Available at Heatmasters Lahti and Turku Service Centers in Finland as well as in Będzin, Southern Poland.

Heatmasters Turku

The waiting is over in Finland´s oldest city: The wizards of metal and their knights have arrived in Turku, the former capital of Finland. We have opened a service center in the industrial area of Itäharju, on Teollisuuskatu 38. We serve our customers both from our Heatmasters Turku facility and by sending our troops to make their magic on work sites.

The official opening of the Heatmasters Turku Service Center took place on June 16^th. In addition to local customers from South-Western Finland and our local wizards, management from the Heatmasters headquarters in Hollola was also present.

Area Manager, South-Western Finland, Erik Eroma: “Instead of heat treatment in our stationary furnaces only, we can offer a total package including heat treatment, blasting, painting, and transportation as well. We are a one-stop-shop for our customers.”

Business managers, Heat treatment services, Jukka Sirviö: “There are many welding shops around this area and it has been our idea to establish a new unit here for some time. Now there are also a couple of major on-site projects in the neighborhood, so the timing is right. Our facility is large enough to offer also space for our customers for prefabrication purposes.”

Greetings from the Regional Manager:

“I am very proud to continue the great work of Heatmasters after the expansion here in Turku. By performing heat treatment with our furnaces and at work sites, our main target is to improve availability and service levels in the area as well as to decrease the throughput times of our customers’ production processes. Providing additional services on top of heat treatment, such as blasting, painting, pressure tests, and inspections, allows us to offer a total high-quality package by utilizing our own and our partners’ resources.”
-Erik Eroma, Regional Manager

Contact info:
Heatmasters Turku (South-Western Finland)
Erik Eroma, Regional Manager
Mobile +358 (0)40 551 1958
erik.eroma@heatmasters.net

Heatmasters Quality, Safety, and Competence Development

Certification of quality and safety systems by all stakeholders is the only way to ensure the right level of performance throughout the entire value chain and on the project sites. Being the first European services and technology company specializing in heat treatment (annealing, normalizing, stress relieving), Heatmasters Quality Management System now also embraces occupational health and safety by obtaining the OHSAS 18001 certification.

Heat treatment services and technology company Heatmasters has a clear strategy that focuses on quality, safety, and competence development. Heatmasters Quality Management System has integrated the ISO9001 and EN ISO17663 (Guidelines for quality requirements for heat treatment in connection with welding and allied processes) certificates in our units since 2005 and 2009 respectively.

Now we have been rewarded with the occupational health and safety certificate OHSAS 18001. This certificate initially covers the Lahti and Varkaus units in Finland. Our Polish unit in Southern Poland has been certified some two months earlier.

Ilkka Mujunen, President and CEO of Heatmasters: “Continuously improving quality and safety is an important part of our strategy. The certificates and recent certifications mark a result of long term systematic and hard work by the whole organization. We have had the ISO 9001 certificate for more than ten years and now have been rewarded with the OHSAS 18001 certificate. The next step is to receive certifications covering all our operations globally.”

“The leading companies in our customer industries are promoting: safety is present in everything we do. This statement clearly shows an example to the whole value chain and all the players there. We at Heatmasters want to be on the same level and in line with our customers and end-customers when it comes to quality and safety. And certification of quality and safety systems is the only way to ensure that performance. It is not enough that you declare that you are working according to standards, the systems must be certified. This should be demanded by the end-customers”, Ilkka Mujunen continues.

Heatmasters is one of the leading metals’ heat treatment services and technology companies in the world. With offices and facilities across five locations in Finland, Poland and Estonia, Heatmasters is providing on-site heat treatment jobs European wide as well as stress relieving, annealing, and normalization in stationary furnaces. Heatmasters also delivers high technology furnaces, transformers, controllers, and accessories to over 30 countries globally through our global network of representatives.

Heatmasters has closed a major contract with a West African customer. Delivery containing several heat treatment transformers and related accessories and tools was shipped in March 2016. This equipment will provide high-quality, modern equipment that will provide the tools for future projects related to heat treatment in Africa.

Heatmasters designs and manufactures state-of-the-art technology for the heat treatment of metals. The design of the heat treatment equipment is rooted in half a century of expertise using the technology in the field. Our extensive equipment range includes modern heat treatment furnaces, heat treatment units, temperature control systems, and all related accessories.

The heat treatment equipment delivered to West-Africa will be used in the post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) process after welding on large metal objects. We can’t disclose further information due to strict NDA.

Heatmasters specialists will also provide local training for heat treatment in Africa along with supervision and support services to ensure that the equipment will be in efficient use by June 2016.

The HM406T2 is a 40 kVA fully-automatic, six-channel heat treatment unit for preheating and annealing metal workpieces. We are ensuring our clients receive innovative equipment, designed with industry requirements such as ease-of-use and a long product lifetime in mind!

Heatmasters’ stress-relieving and normalization furnaces, transformers, and related accessories/tools are sold to over 30 countries around the globe. Our representatives across the globe provide flexible, high-quality solutions and heat treatment equipment with technical support and reliable service, ensuring your heat treatment challenges are solved comfortably.

Heatmasters Poland was awarded OHSAS 18001 Occupational health and safety management system certification.

OHSAS 18001 sets out the minimum requirements for occupational health and safety management best practices. It paves the way for the best possible working conditions in the organization and provides guidelines on how to identify hazards and put the correct controls in place to manage them. This helps to reduce workplace accidents, cutting out related costs and downtime, as well as prioritizing the welfare of the staff.

The aim of the Heatmasters health and safety policy is to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of our staff, visitors, and the communities in which we operate. Applicable laws and regulations are to be regarded as the minimum requirements and our target will always be 0 workplace incidents each year.

Better, safer working conditions lead to better performance. And the health and safety management system not only motivates staff, but it also engages customers and suppliers looking for businesses that take occupational health and safety management seriously.

Marcin Skurczyński, Managing Director of Heatmasters Poland, says: “Achieving a structured health and safety management system is demonstrating Heatmasters’ commitment to the welfare of our staff and external parties. Safety above everything else.”

Well done, Poland! During the year 2016, other Heatmasters units’ health and safety systems will be certified according to OHSAS 18001 standard.