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SURFACE PROTECTION CUSTOMER MAGAZINE BY FSP 2014

➤ Chairman Ramberg: focus on Northern Europe ➤ Impressive Ahvenkoski ready for Russian traffic

Norsok treatment for Halton Marine

➤ Acid spraying in Olkiluoto nuclear power plant ➤ Customer Survey: total score grew higher

For Surface Protection is the stakeholder magazine of FSP Finnish Steel Painting Oy

Chairman Ramberg: focus on Northern Europe

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Content and visual design Viestintätoimisto VCA Oy

Cover photo Antti Verkasalo / VCA Oy Headquarters Hiekkamäentie 4 01150 Söderkulla Tel. +358 9 278 6270

Impressive Ahvensilta is ready for Russian traffic

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Founded in 1964, FSP Finnish Steel Painting Oy is one of the leading surface treatment providers in Northern Europe. It offers surface treatment services for machinery, equipment, ships, bridges, storage tanks, steel structures and off-shore equipment on a turnkey principle. The company follows strict quality, environmental, occupational safety and health standards. In 2013, FSP’s turnover was about MEUR 25.

FSP employs over 200 surface treatment specialists in 30 painting shops in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Poland.

Halton Marine orders Norsok treatment for its offshore products

Customer Satisfaction Survey: total score grew higher

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Local partner, global market OUR GOAL IS TO BE THE PREFERRED PARTNER IN MARKET AREAS THAT ARE BECOMING MORE GLOBAL THAN EVER. At the moment, our customer base includes various international metal and engineering industry companies. For instance, Cargotec in Poland and ABB and Stera in Estonia make use of our surface treatment expertise.

In Sweden, we have for the past few years treated a number of both brand new and rebuilt bridges. Among our customers is, for instance, the Swedish Transport Administration.

In international projects we use local workforce but also have a centralised Finnish project management. This way, we are able to ensure a high-quality end result as well as environmentally friendly and safe working methods.

This year we took another step towards internationalisation: we started operations in Norway. Our presence in Norway will support FSP’s vision to be the leading producer of diversified surface treatment services in the North European market.

We have already over 30 offices in Finland, Sweden, Poland and Estonia.

Norway is an attractive market especially owing to its significant off-shore industry and value-added services. We have strong references in off-shore structures both domestically and internationally.

On pages 10–11 we tell you about the Halton Marine partnership, in which our expertise in off-shore structures and Frosio inspections played a key part. Owing to the at times large volumes in this project, both reliability of deliveries and speed were central issues.

Our most recent Customer Satisfaction Survey reveals that our partners value reliability, quality and customer focus. The grades illustrating FSP’s overall quality of activity, the respondents’ willingness to recommend FSP to others and FSP’s ability to stand out from the competition were higher than those in 2013. This tells us that we’ve managed to fulfil our commitment to service.

Dear reader, take your time in browsing through For Surface Protection. We’ll tell you about our top-of-the-class know-how in the off-shore business and in our surface treatment facilities, Engineering expert services and project business.

We’re ready to meet our commitment to quality, reliability of delivery, environmental friendliness and occupational safety. Contact us and we’ll talk more about the new opportunities to create added value that your own customers will appreciate.

With collaboration in mind,

Pentti Virtanen CEO FSP Finnish Steel Painting Oy

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Fredrik Ramberg, FSP Chairman of the Board:

Our direction: the promising growth markets of the Baltic Sea The vision of FSP is to be a leading and diverse surface treatment industry producer in the markets of northern Europe. The strategic main goal is to increase the revenue to EUR 50 million by the end of 2015.

This is how Fredrik Ramberg, Chairman of the Board and a long-standing industry branch agent, concisely explains the core of FSP’s strategy.

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n addition to growth, profitability is now what business development is all about in all market conditions. According to Ramberg, the objective is to attain the gross margin of approximately ten per cent by 2015.

He sees a great chance of breakthroughs, especially in internationalisation in the Baltic Sea area. At the same time, he remarks that Finland will still remain a central anchor of business, as FSP has a surface treatment network spanning the entire country and a strong position in manufacturing industry.

He sees particularly large growth potential in project and offshore business and added-value services in the North European market.

“The Norwegian surface treatment industry market is approximately as large as that of Finland. Norway is especially attractive to us due to its offshore industry and the petrochemicals product industry built around it.”

The objective: double the international business Ramberg mentions his country, Sweden where FSP has made several breakthroughs in project business activities. For instance, FSP received the largest project order in the history of the company from Sweden in the spring of 2012, covering the surface treatment works of six bridges.

“The market in Sweden is very tempting as it is approximately twice the size of that in Finland.”

Until now, FSP has been internationalising in the Baltic Sea area together with its Finnish affiliates. This has helped FSP to proceed to, for instance, the markets of

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Poland and Estonia. According to Ramberg, internationalisation has not been based on FSP establishing a country-specific company and then searching for local clientele.

In northern Poland, FSP is closely collaborating with Cargotec. In Estonia, FSP has two surface treatment facilities where their affiliates include ABB and Stera. Ramberg says that the objective is to double the international sales during the next three years.

The service orientation is based on a smart, established and service-minded way of functioning.”

Ownership arrangements create opportunities The key position of the staff in the success was also a reason why the acting management of FSP increased its share of the company in the company arrangements in September 2013. In this way, FSP ensures an even more dynamic entrepreneur spirit.

At the same time, customers receive Means: an active service culture in-depth surface treatment service knowAccording to Ramberg, the recipe for suchow through expertise in manufacturing cess is based on comprehensive developindustry, process and offshore industry and ment of know-how, new surface treatment, infraprojects. resource management and communication.

In the same company arrangements, the The means particularly include active culture capital investment company of Ramberg, of sales and ideas and project management Ramberg Investment AB, became the skills. majority shareholder of FSP. Ramberg has “For instance, in international partnerbeen one of FSP’s largest shareholders for a ships, the staff is local but the project is long time and, in the fall of 2013, wanted to concentratedly managed all the way from increase his share when he had the chance.

Finland. This ensures a high-quality result In the company, he sees great potential for with environmentally friendly and safe growing and developing as a leading surface working methods.” treatment service provider in the Baltic Sea In the end, however, success always comes from a professional and reliable staff. area.

“The surface treatment industry is in an He points out that FSP’s history is an incredible story of growth all the way from the late interesting stage of development as customers demand even more competitive 1980s. In the recent decades, it has and environmentally friendly solutions and multiplied its revenue to EUR 25 million. wish to expand partnerships in international Ramberg says that FSP owes its thanks for market areas.” this success to its motivated and reliable “Now, it is time to make a strong start. professionals.

The ownership arrangements enable us to “New surface treatment industry expand in the Baltic Sea area, create more innovations together with service-oriented financing arrangements and increase working methods create the basis for continuing growth and internationalisation. strategic partnerships.” ■

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Fredrik Ramberg and Pentti Virtanen, CEO of FSP, see potential of great growth in project and offshore business and added-value services.

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Pasi Kovalainen says that surface treating a bridge requires solid know-how, since its surface must endure decades before the next maintenance.

Ahvenkoski Bridge is ready for Russian traffic The new tied-arch bridge in Ahvenkoski near Loviisa was given finishing by the surface treatment professionals of FSP. The surface treatment of the bridge started with treatment of sectional joints in the workshop and stopped with overpainting on site. Quality and schedule were central criteria for choosing FSP to make the surface treatment.

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he surface treatment of the large, single-arch tied-arch bridge in Ahvenkoski by River Kymijoki was a big and multiphase project. At first, blocks were welded together in the bridge workshop after which FSP treated the sectional joints. In May 2013, the complete bridge was hauled in to its place which was a remarquable event in Ahvenkoski village and its neighbourhood.

FSP was chosen as the winner in competitive bidding thanks to its schedule management, high quality and good price-quality ratio.

The approximately 100 metres long arch of the bridge was brought in the place in three pieces after which FSP continued its surface treatment work.

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“Last autumn scaffolding was mounted over the river and overpainting started in the sections above the water level. Then the arch of the bridge had been mounted to its place. After the winter break we were able to continue the project in April. The project was finished in the beginning of summer 2014.

All the work phases took couple of months in total, “ says the Project Manager Pasi Kovalainen from FSP. The tied-arch bridge is a type of a bridge that resembles the arch bridge in which the bearing structure consists of the arch and stiffening girder against which the arch is supported.

Fivefold surface treatment Kovalainen characterizes Ahvenkoski project as quite large for its extent. The surface treatment of a new bridge is a smaller project than renovating an old one because it does not include the removal of the old coating.

The surface treatment of the bridge requires good skills and care because the coating must stand for several decades.

Maintenance treatments are made if needed for abrasion. The final inspection of the project was conducted by the Finnish Transport Agency that will inspect surface condition and decide possible maintenance work in future.

“The surface treatment of the bridge must include five coats of paint so that the surface is resistant enough. In the inspection, the thickness of the coat is measured and the adherence of the paint is tested by a drawing test," explains Kovalainen.

In total 68 bridges are being built along the Highway 7 between Kotka and Koskenkylä of which building the Ahvenkoski Bridge was the most demanding and exceptional for its method of construction. The highway is a part of the international Highway E18 from Turku to Vaalimaa and the bridge is one of the most impressive parts of the road.

Ahvenkoski is one of the six new interchanges of the highway.

Though the single-arch structure of the bridge is unusual, the surface treatment went in a customary manner without bigger surprises, according to Kovalainen. There were 2 to 4 members of FSP staff and the supervisor in different phases at the site.

“The project was conducted flexibly and in good cooperation with the customer Normek Oy and the Pulteri Consortium,” says The Production Manager of FSP, Esa Parkkila.

Covering prevents contamination of nature The objective of design was a bridge that would disturb landscape as little as possible.

Similarly, nature values have been taken into account in its design and usage. Environmental concerns are included in FSP’s strategic plan.

• The Ahvenkoski bridge going across Kymijoki between Kotka and Loviisa.

• The only single-arch bridge structure in Finland.

• It is composed of two concrete beam bridges which lead to the tied-arch bridge (143 m).

• The total length of the bridge: 400 metres.

• The frame of the tied-arch bridge: the steel structure 136 metres long, the main span 90 metres, the weight 1 000 tons.

• Normek Oy ordered surface treatment work from FSP.

“When we sandblasted the sectional joints in the middle section of the bridge, the environment was protected by covering the bridge structures for the duration of surface treatment. We do this always when the environment will be exposed to detaching material.”

Waste from sandblasting is sent to analysis so that we can define if it belongs to landfill waste or to hazardous waste.

Also the aesthetic values were considered in the bridge design. Thanks to noise barriers, the bridge landscape can be admired without noise from traffic.

Traffic has passed via the old road for now and the new highway and the Ahvenkoski Bridge will be opened for traffic in autumn 2014. Because of the Russian traffic its utilization rate will be high especially for heavy traffic.

In total 18 bridges, the Ahvenkoski Bridge included, will be built on the Highway E18 that goes along the coast. ■

• The designer of the tied-arch section: Sito.

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FSP in Olkiluoto:

the progress of acid spraying A A functioning nuclear power station is not the most usual surface treatment location in the world. The skills of FSP were put to the test in the storage basins’ surface treatment project ordered

by Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO).

Acid spraying was used as the technique to ensure that the storage basins for the fuel used in the nuclear facility are durable and safe.

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s a working environment, a nuclear power plant is not unique to FSP. The company has provided maintenance painting in Loviisa since 2003 and in Olkiluoto 3 since 2006.

Tommi Virtanen, a project engineer from TVO says that acid spraying professionals were sought internationally.

“As the negotiations progressed, we found out that a supplier could be found in our own country. The agreement was made last year, and the acid spraying project of FSP has been completed with great success.”

Acid spraying offers corrosion resistance The mission of FSP was to handle the storage

basins of used fuel – on site. There were three basins and their measurements were 7m x 9m x 15 m. The labour consortium of Hartela and Skanska was also involved in the project and delivered the basins to TVO and participated in the design work. Due to the depth of the basins, cranes were used to help in the treatment.

The surface treatment is an essential stage; welded metal becomes extremely hot, and as a result, chromium is released from the steel around the welded seams which should oxidise and protect the stainless steel. The area of the welded seams is, therefore, susceptible to corrosion if untreated. The best corrosion resistance is achieved with chemical after-treatment, i.e. acid spraying.

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The main mission was to treat the surfaces of three fuel storage basins. Due to their depth, cranes were used in the surface treatment.

Acid also removes impurities such as welding splashes and black steel from the surface of the steel.

“Special thanks to the project managers of TVO and Hartela for the fluent planning of the project and the dialogue with the supplier.”

Unique working environment “The acid spraying project was an interesting challenge to us. There are always occupational safety risks when handling corrosive substances and they need to be thoroughly prepared for. The basins were also a unique working environment. Acid dipping smallish metal pieces in an acid bath is an easily managed job, but with the large basins, we used acid spraying. This meant that the basins were handled in sections, wall by wall,” says Petri Rautiainen, Branch Manager of FSP.

Careful planning made the process easier Treating one basin took about one week.

The nitric acid-fluorhydric acid mixture was spread onto the surface for cleansing and was left on for about an hour. After this, the surface was washed clean.

“Controlling the washing waters is crucial as they still contain corrosive acids. The water was carefully collected and delivered to Ekokem for disposal. The washing waters which were processed to be harmless finally ended up in the bedrock,” says Virtanen.

FSP brought three spraying experts to the job, and Project Manager Jukka Karvonen was in charge.

Virtanen is grateful to FSP for their thorough planning.

“In the early stages, it was very important to us that the supplier had enough knowhow and patience to carefully explain the different stages of the project and their potential risks. The planning was done with care and time. FSP also scores full points for occupational safety. There is no room for errors in a radiation monitoring area.”

The basins are now ready for use. TVO and STUK carefully inspected the sealing of the basins. ■

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Norsok treatment provides a high quality result for offshore products Halton Marine manufactures indoor air solutions for cruise ships, navies, energy producers and offshore installations of petroleum industry. The company utilizes FSP’s surface treatment expertise of Frosio inspection that conforms to the Norsok standard. The objective is to meet high quality requirements.

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argets for surface treatment include damper frames of air conditioning channels that Halton Marine will deliver to an oil prospecting and storing vessel in the Indian Ocean, the west coast of Australia.

According to Kimmo Piispanen, the Director of Project Management at Halton Marine, high quality standards have been set for offshore structures because they must stand stress imposed by the extreme environment of use.

“We chose FSP to be our surface treatment partner because it has a long experience in the offshore structures and inspectors with the Frosio qualification.

Before, we used local partners in the paint shop at Halton Kausala plant,” says Piispanen.

Norsok paintings are in the process at the moment in the FSP Sastamala surface treatment shop where Halton Marine delivers welded damper frames from the Lahti production plant. According to Piispanen, the objective is to manufacture a product that has as long a lifetime and main-

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tenance interval as possible.

Halton Marine is famous for its leading position as a supplier of indoor air solutions for the most famous cruise ships, navies and oil and gas industry. Its fire safety products for ventilation meet the high

• Halton Marine Provides the newest technology for ventilation, fire safety, air flow control and air distribution solutions of cabins and galleys.

• Customers include ship building industry, petroleum industry and navies.

• Plants in Finland and China.

• So far 100.000 dampers have been manufactured in the Lahti production plant.

• One of the business fields of Halton Group provides solutions that improve the safety, energy efficiency and comfort of ships, offshore intallations and energy industry.

• The group’s turnover is about EUR 174 million of which the Marine’s share is EUR 30 million.

quality requirements and are conform to the latest European EN standards.

High quality result with Norsok treatment The sign of high quality is that the dampers are made of high alloy, acid-proof steel. ISO 9001 quality management system is followed in the manufacture of all products. VTT has tested the products and certified them conform to different classification societies.

The high quality result is guaranteed by surface treatment which has the main funtion of preventing rusting and erosion in extreme conditions.

In offshore installations, corrosion is caused especially by salty sea water and continuos stress caused by humidity.

Norsok surface treatment gives durability for product surface for several decades.

The damper maintains safety on board because it prevents fire and smoke spreading through air ducts. Rise in temperature in the air duct causes tripping of the thermal fuse and activates the closing flap that closes the duct with the energy of prestressed spring.

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Halton’s products also save energy.

Halton's technology based on controlled air flow adjusts air conditioning automatically to a lower level in cabin air conditioners when there is no one in the cabin or the balcony door is open.

Significant rise in volumes The Purchasing Manager at Halton Marine, Merja Kauto has been satisfied with Norsok project that begun in May 2013. In the course of the project delivery reliability and speed have played the key role according to her because volumes rise periodically to important amounts.

The project covers 1.400 damper frames in total whose surface treatment quality is supervised by the FSP Frosio inspectors with their continuos inspections and tests.

The quality control covers all the surface treatment system.

Before the beginning of the project, FSP gave advanced training in surface treatment requirements for offshore products and concideration of the requirements during the process.

According to Janne Heimonen, the supervisor at the Sastamala surface treatment shop, the surface treatment work starts with aluminium oxide abrasion. After that, the surface is painted twice with epoxy.

During the work phases careful inspections and documentations are made for e.g. pretreatment and painting phases and their conditions and thicknesses of paint coat.

“In the course of the project, Norsok paintings are made to 1.400 frames in total and all their inspections are documented to ten different log sheets. This means that there will be 14.000 pages of log sheets,” says Kauto. In future, the partners will deepen their cooperation to the acid dipping of steel parts i.e. chemical after-treatment. ■

Kimmo Piispanen, the Director of Project Management, and Merja Kauto, the Purchasing Manager at Halton Marine, have been satisfied with Norsok project that begun in May 2013.

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50 years

50 years in the box seat of corrosion prevention industry FSP Finnish Steel Painting celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. FSP’s predecessor, the Swedish-born Alukrom Oy, was established in 1964, as the busiest building stage of Neste’s refinery in Porvoo was about to begin.

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lukrom was in charge of the surface treatment project in the refinery, and was, perhaps, the only company in Finland capable of this extensive feat.

Before this, the branch of industrial surface treatment barely existed. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that FSP created the basis for high-quality industrial surface treatment.

Over the years, FSP has become a leading company in its industry in northern Europe.

It employs nearly 200 professionals and has

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a revenue of approximately EUR 25 million.

The growth was sped up in the 1970s especially by enormous oil rig operations and the IV stage of the Porvoo refinery. The surface treatment work of even just one rig covered up to 250,000 square metres.

Oil tankers and large vessels The end of the 1970s also saw significant surface treatment operations at Valmet’s shipyard in Vuosaari, where large oil tankers were the object of surface treatment. The shipyard industry and shipbuilding increased while the manufacture of oil rigs decreased.

Surface treatment work was carried out in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Denmark, among other things. The most distant targets were as far as Vietnam and Panama.

Personnel could be transferred from ten fixed locations to where the work was situated.

In 1994, ownership arrangements

changed the name of the company to FSP Finnish Steel Painting as the Swedish parent company Alukrom was sold to Saudi Arabia.

Surface treatment industry in a turning point From the turn of the millennium, the business of FSP became more professional as the quality system was changed into a comprehensive management system. Productivity, occupational safety and well-being was improved in all the offices. ICT technology investments were made to enable even faster growth and productivity.

After the turn of the millennium, a structural change in manufacturing industry was launched, which lead to FSP making a total of 16 outsourcing agreements with leading companies in the field. The industry began to understand that it is not necessary to do everything by themselves but that added value can be acquired to the quality of

OUTSOURCING AGREEMENTS SINCE 2001 ABB Andritz Auramo Fortaco Hiab/Cargotec Hydroline Komas Konecranes Miilukangas Normet Rolls-Royce Sampo-Rosenlew Stera Tehomet Valmet Walpella

industrial surface treatment together with a skilled partner.

At the same time, the industry began transferring their production near foreign customers in an accelerating pace. The options for FSP were to either stay on the diminishing Finnish market or to internationalise together with the customers.

FSP chose internationalisation, and at the moment, approximately a quarter of the revenue comes from international market areas. Its share in total revenue keeps growing.

Increasing service orientation At the moment, FSP has operations in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Poland and Norway.

One of the most challenging surface treatment industry applications is offshore industry. Another significant market is the surface treatment know-how of steel bridges. Especially in Sweden, the public

sector immensely invests in the duration of structures.

The subcontracting chain of the industry is also becoming more service-oriented.

This is why FSP offers the companies in the industry an extensive range of services such as engineering expertise, logistics, packing and subassembly.

The main mission of the engineering unit is to develop new surface treatment methods, examine new standard painting systems that meet the standard wishes of the customers and carry out FROSIO inspections in accordance with the NORSOK requirements.

The main objective of the expert services is to reduce the lead time of surface treatment projects, to bring out simple operating models and to improve quality and decrease expenses. ■

The most significant landmarks and surface treatment projects: 1964 Alukrom, the predecessor of FSP, launches its operations in Finland, refinery of Neste Oil in Porvoo

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Refinery in Naantali, bridge projects in the Nordic countries, floodgates in the Saimaa Canal, oil tankers

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Mäntyluoto oil rigs

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Luxury cruisers

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The company changes its name to FSP Finnish Steel Painting in the Alukrom ownership arrangements

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Acquiring the business of Suomen Teollisuuspinnoite

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Acquiring the business of the YIT surface treatment unit

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Sixteen outsourcing agreements with different companies in 2001–2014

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Certification of management system

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Subcontractor of the Year (ABB Oy), new surface treatment facility in Jüri, Estonia

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Another new surface treatment facility in Saue, Estonia, painting company of the year

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Production starts in Poland

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Largest project order in history from Sweden

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FSP turns 50

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Customer Survey: Total score higher than in 2013

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n terms of various metrics in the Customer Satisfaction Survey, the year 2013 was a positive one.

The scores reflecting FSP’s success of operations, customers’ willingness to recommend the company and FSP’s ability to stand out from the competition were all higher than those in the previous year. The overall score based on feedback from, for example, customers and collaboration partners, was ‘good’.

The information was gathered from FSP’s recent national Customer Satisfaction Survey comprising 121 partners. The respondents were asked to give their opinions of conspicuousness, experience, expertise, channels, areas of focus and overall quality of activity of FSP.

blasting and washing and cleaning. Also, the use of value-added services in particular is growing strongly.

The respondents were also asked which services FSP should concentrate on in future. The biggest expectations focused on, in addition to above-mentioned, fireproofing, powder coating and inspection services.

Focus on development targets The survey included a section for comments where the respondents were free to present their wishes concerning development of customer services. The respondents wished

most that FSP would focus more on value-­ added services, willingness to serve and development of communication.

Own contact persons, the customer magazine, colleagues and partners are considered the most important channels of information. Social media has the role of supporter for the other means of communication. Electronic channels of communication are now appreciated more than in previous years.

FSP thanks all the partners that have given valuable feedback. ■

Success of FSP in its operation (average) 2014 4,0

Good reputation, international presence and reliability FSP is considered a reliable, international service provider that has a good reputation.

The results also show wishes concerning development of customer service which will be tackled carefully in the future. It is significant that FSP’s image as a environmentally and socially responsible company grew stronger.

The survey also charted in what way FSP’s surface treatment services differed from those of its competitors. One third of respondents think that FSP’s activity is to some extent or outstandingly better.

In terms of expertise, FSP is viewed as a safe and reliable partner with high-quality competence and strong customer-focus. The respondents felt that the biggest improvement took place in the area of sustainable development.

At the moment, the three most popular services are anti-corrosive painting, shot

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Five most important areas of expertise (average) Reliable and safe partner 4,1 Strong expert in quality 3,9 Customer-oriented service expert 3,8 Expertise in after-sale cooperation 3,8 Expertise in Best Practices 3,8 2 Source: FSP Customer Satisfaction Survey 2014

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FSP acquires Walcorro IN MARCH 2014, FSP ACQUIRED THE BUSINESS OF THE SURFACE TREATMENT COMPANY WALCORRO OY. Walcorro’s range of services includes acid dipping, shot blasting, grinding and surface treatment.

According to the agreement, FSP will be in charge of surface treatment operations in the production facility located in Messukylä, Tampere. The agreement will enable a better utilisation degree for the production facility and a constant development of surface treatment.

The production facility is ready to provide surface treatment services for all industries. ■

Significant Auramo partnership launched FSP AND AURAMO OY, A LEADING MANUFACTURER OF LIFT TRUCK ATTACHMENTS, HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT COLLABORATION AGREEMENT ON SURFACE TREATMENT OPERATIONS. In the early stages, the agreement concerns surface treatment operations located in Auramo’s production facility in Vantaa, later to be transferred to the new production facility in Järvenpää in 2014. The staff of the production facility will be transferred as so-called long-standing employees to work under FSP. “Due to this collaboration, we will receive environmentally friendly surface treatment know-how and additional value through quality development. The quick lead time of surface treatment is also crucial and will become a competing factor in factory production”, says Jarmo Uimi, Managing Director of Auramo Oy. ■

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Neste Oil’s Hamina tanks to receive surface treatment THE OIL REFINING AND MARKETING COMPANY NESTE OIL, FOCUSED ON FUELS AND OTHER PROCESSED OIL PRODUCTS, ORDERED SURFACE TREATMENT WORK FROM FSP FOR ITS OIL TERMINAL STORAGE TANKS IN HAMINA IN EARLY 2014.

The sizes of the crude oil tanks are 20x13 metres. The surface treatment and repainting will be carried out during tank maintenance and inspection. The treatment will primarily be done on the outer surface. The objective is to ensure that the surface of the tanks can withstand corrosion in all weather conditions. The work was finished during the summer of 2014. ■

FSP Finnish Steel Painting Oy Hiekkamäentie 4 01150 Söderkulla Tel. +358 9 278 6270 www.fspcorp.com

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