Bobcat has appointed Oulu based Suomen Konetalo as its telehandler and compact equipment distributor for Finland.
The company is already the manufacturer’s dealer for Bobcat’s Material Handling range of forklifts and warehouse equipment.
Suomen Konetalo operates from six locations in Finland, Kokkola, Varkaus, Ylöjärvi, Riihimäki and Lieto as well as the headquarters in Oulu central Finland.
Suomen Konetalo, Oulu
Suomen Konetalo chief executive Timo Peltola said: “We already have a number of customers in the construction business, and the new agreement with Bobcat will enable us to offer them a more comprehensive choice of products and services. We will continue to be a full service Bobcat dealer, and we can support our new and existing customers with a wider range of high quality products. Most of the new product categories we have added through Bobcat compact equipment are already familiar to us and we have sold and serviced these products before. But there are also machines that are new to us in the Bobcat product range, and we are very excited about the opportunities this brings!”
Timo Peltola
“Each of our locations have their own maintenance workshops and service vehicles which are equipped to handle all of the products in the Bobcat range. In total, we have around 30 service engineers. Our aftersales team has three people dedicated to working only with spare parts. We will have local spare parts stock in Finland and with that we can minimise parts delivery times and keep customers’ machines running at their best.”
“We also have a big fleet of Bobcat forklifts in our short term rental fleet, and the demand is high. We will be adding new more Bobcat products to this fleet based on demand.”
Bobcat UK & Nordic regional manager Ewen Gilchrist added: “We are very pleased to appoint Suomen Konetalo as the new Bobcat compact equipment dealer for Finland. This will build on the great success it has had with the material handling range in Finland. We are confident that it will provide the launchpad for the growth of the Bobcat brand in Finland in every sector especially our traditional markets in construction, rental and agriculture.”
Rauno Sarkkinen was established as a one man equipment maintenance company in 1995 and was acquired in 2011 by Juho-Pekka and Timo Peltola. The two expanded the maintenance and repair business and began selling equipment in 2013 when it was appointed as the Hyundai forklift dealer. The following year it added Doosan forklifts and managed to hold onto the Hyundai franchise. Further locations were added and then in April 20
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