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FW Capital - A Nordic industrial group

FW Capital is an industrial group with five enterprises offering a wide range of services and products for the Nordic industry. FW Capital is the parent company of the group and concentrates on strategic management of the companies in the group and on financial administration, it is also responsible for the financing of the companies and the risk management.

FW Capital offers consulting sales services related to the management of the financial activities and the company assets.
In addition to this FW Capital manages the investment assets of the group.

Fineweld Oy

Fineweld Oy is one of the largest companies in the Nordic countries specialized in manufacturing and assembling demanding industrial pipelines.

Fineweld offers its customers total deliveries including pipelines, steel structures and equipment installations. The main market area is the Nordic countries but due to the high degree of prefabrication and the efficient production process the company is able to deliver pipelines all over the world. In addition to project deliveries the company offers its customers also maintenance.

The main customers are mining, forestry and chemical industry but also oil and gas industry.

www.fineweld.fi

Fineweld Sverige Ab

Fineweld Sverige Ab is a subsidiary totally owned by Fineweld Oy and situated in Sweden, it focuses on demanding project deliveries for process industry.

www.fineweld.se

Fineweld Sverige Ab

Fineweld Sverige Ab is a subsidiary totally owned by Fineweld Oy and situated in Sweden, it focuses on demanding project deliveries for process industry.

www.fineweld.se

Ketepa Oy

Ketepa Oy is a steel wholesale in Central Ostrobothnia. In its wide steel warehouse the customers can surely find the necessary steel and aluminium products.

The company delivers quickly also the products that do not fall within the range of products available for immediate delivery.
In addition to steel services you will easily find also power tools, welding equipment, welding gases and flame cutting equipment in the Ketepa store.

Ketepa - certainly steel.

www.ketepa.fi

Priotec Oy

Priotec Oy is an engineering plastic expert that manufactures both individual engineering plastic products and plastic parts of larger entities. The company's strengths are individual service, smooth production chain and consistent quality of products, storage and fast delivery.

www.priotec.fi

Priotec Oy

www.priotec.fi

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05.01.2022 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld Oy appointed new CEO

16.08.2021 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld to deliver pipe bridges to the Kemi bioproduct Mill

17.04.2020 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld chosen as a key supplier for Northvoltâ€™s battery factory project!

22.06.2017 - FW Capital Oy

Remarcable supply order for Fineweld to BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön production unit

05.09.2016 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld Oy to supply modular pipe bridges to SCA Åstrandâ€™s Helios project

05.09.2016 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld Oy as a key supplier in Boliden Kokkola Oy:s sulphuric acid plant project

05.01.2022 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld Oy appointed new CEO

Mr Sundqvist's is Engineer (BSc) in both Industrial Engineering and Operating Technology. Prior to his appointed as CEO, Mr Sundqvist worked more than a decade as Project Manager at Fineweld Oy. His prior responsibilities have included, e.g., the company's largest ever deliveries to Northvolt's battery material factory to Skellefteå, Sweden.

Fineweld's prior CEO, entrepreneur and founder Matti Laitinen, will continue as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the parent company FW Capital Oy and CEO of the Group.

”Now is a good time to give project expertise a stronger position in the company management, and this solution will further strengthen Fineweld as one of the leading specialist companies for project deliveries in the Nordic countries”, says entrepreneur Matti Laitinen.

Fineweld Oy is one of the leading Nordic project delivery specialists, focusing on large supplies for the process industry such as the battery material, chemical, forestry, metal, and mining industries.

Fineweld Oy's subsidiary Fineweld Sverige Ab is currently performing an entity of deliveries to the Northvolt Battery material plant project in Skellefteå, Sweden. Fineweld was selected as one of the key suppliers, and the delivery will take place during the year 2020 to 2022. The delivery is the largest in Fineweld Group's history, and it will strengthen Fineweld's position as a significant project supplier for the battery industry.

During 2021, Fineweld was selected as a supplier to Metsä Fibre's Kemi bioproduct mill in Kemi, Finland. The delivery includes all the main pipeline bridges in the factory and the contract is the largest pipeline bridge project in Fineweld Group's history. Metsä Fibre's investment is one of the largest investments made by the forestry industry in Finland.

Additional information will be issued by:
FW Capital Oy, Group CEO Matti Laitinen, Tel. +358 40 086 0914+358 40 086 0914
Fineweld Oy, CEO Daniel Sundqvist, Tel. +358 40 823 5163+358 40 823 5163

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16.08.2021 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld to deliver pipe bridges to the Kemi bioproduct Mill

The modular pipe bridge concept designed and developed by Fineweld has awaken great interest in particular with major forestry sector companies for their billion-euro level investment projects. Entrepreneur and founder of Fineweld, Matti Laitinen, comments the procurement as follows:

”This is already the third large pipe bridge project in the past five years where we have been selected as supplier. It feels great that after two of Sweden's largest forestry industry projects, we also won this contract for Metsä Fibre/Group's Kemi bioproduct mill that is by far the largest and most interesting project in Finland for the moment. This proves that when you have guts to do things in a slightly different way from your competitors and concentrate on demanding project deliveries, Finnish companies will continue to have the opportunity to participate in such mega-level projects”.

The project will start immediately, installations on site will commence at the beginning of next year, and the entire project shall be completed by mid-2023.

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17.04.2020 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld chosen as a key supplier for Northvoltâ€™s battery factory project!

Fineweld's extensive experience from large scale industry investment projects together with its unique semi-modular plant construction process has convinced the Swedish green energy pioneer Northvolt to choose Fineweld as a key supplier for building a battery manufacturing plant to Skellefteå Sweden. FineweldÂ´s supply is a main part of an active material production process for battery cell manufacturing.

Fineweld's owner and CEO Matti Laitinen is extremely happy describing the biggest contract in Fineweld's history.

”This is a unique opportunity for us to be a pioneer in building a completely new industry in European scale. This project is an excellent opportunity for us to show our proven skills in large industry projects and create a concept for building a series of similar process lines for coming investments in Skellefteå and possibly on other European locations. This project alone will take more than two years and it gives us a great possibility to lift our company to a new level.”

Project will be executed in alliance with ABB and Sweco. Sweco will take responsibility for engineering. ABB will deliver plant electrification, instrumentation and automation.

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22.06.2017 - FW Capital Oy

Remarcable supply order for Fineweld to BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön production unit

Fineweld and BillerudKorsnäs have agreed on delivery of modular pipeline bridges for an investment project, in which a completely new board machine will be built.

The Fineweld group made a significant contract for the supply of pipeline bridges to BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön production unit in Sweden. The Fineweld project delivery includes all the pipeline bridges of the whole investment. This delivery is an important part of the BillerudKorsnäs 5,7 billion SEK investment project, in which a whole new board machine is built.

The value of the order is not disclosed, but the order usually exceeds 10 million EUR in deliveries of this. ”This order will employ approximately 100 employees for one year. The delivery will be completed in summer 2018. It's great to see that our long-term work in major investment projects in Sweden has been noted and brings us new. This supply agreement confirms our positive expectations regarding the Swedish market area.”, says Matti Laitinen, Managing Director of Fineweld.

At present, Fineweld is running a similar delivery to SCA's Åstrand Pulp Mill for a 7.8 billion SEK investment project. The delivery will be completed in summer 2017 appropriately before the start of a new project site construction.

”So far the successful Åstrand project convinced the customer of the quality, scheduling and cost benefits of our delivery concept” says Ville Klaavu, Vice President of Fineweld's Swedish operations.

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05.09.2016 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld Oy to supply modular pipe bridges to SCA Åstrandâ€™s Helios project

Fineweld Oy will supply pipe bridges to SCA Åstrand's Helios project . Pipe Bridges will be manufactured to modular units including piping, insulation and heat tracing at Fineweld's work shop in Kokkola. Complete pipe bridge modules will be delivered to directly to SCA's harbour. Amount of piping in pipe bridges is more than 10 km. The weight of steel structure is 800 t. Installations will be completed in July 2017.

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05.09.2016 - FW Capital Oy

Fineweld Oy as a key supplier in Boliden Kokkola Oy:s sulphuric acid plant project

During the first half of 2016 Fineweld has supplied and installed more than 300 m of ducts with a diameter of up to 2 m to modernizing project in the sulphuric acid plant at Boliden Kokkola Oy. The Project were done in extremely tight time schedule with main part of installation taking place during the three week shut down in May.

The ducts where manufactured at Fineweld Oy:s workshop to minimize welding and installation time at site. The ducts were manufactured of high temperature stainless steel alloy.

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Contacts

Matti Laitinen

Group president

matti.laitinen(at)fwcapital.fi

+358 400 860 914+358 400 860 914

Arto Ikola

CEO

arto.ikola(at)fwcapital.fi

+358 44 333 2975+358 44 333 2975

Annika Backlund

Accounting

annika.backlund(at)fwcapital.fi

+358 44 333 2983+358 44 333 2983

Taru Laitinen

Accounting

taru.laitinen(at)fwcapital.fi

+358 40 728 5210 +358 40 728 5210