Lauri Riipinen as CEO, Ville Silvasti continues as Chairman of the Board
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As our company continues to grow and develop, it has been decided to separate the roles of the CEO and the Chairman of the Board. As a result, Lauri Riipinen has been appointed CEO of Transportation...
Ville Silvasti was a finalist in EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finland awards
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The EY Entrepreneur of the Year is the most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, with thousands of contestants in more than 60 countries. The awards are granted to entrepreneurs who inspire...
Family business 2.0
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When you look at Silvasti today, it’s hard to imagine that the company had only one truck and one rented trailer when it was founded fifty years ago. Only ten years ago, Silvasti’s fleet...
It’s time for the Silvasti people to speak!
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Silvasti would be nothing without its professional staff. To honor our employees, we sat down with them in our Finnish office’s staff canteen and asked them how they’re doing. Over the decades,...
Learning by doing
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These days, more and more people start their careers as entrepreneurs through school. There is still no special school for special transports, however, which means that you have to learn the job by...
Silvasti driving wind power forward
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International and national climate objectives demand that the share of renewable energy in the final electricity consumption be increased. As climate-harming electricity production methods are wound...
Transport Company Ville Silvasti Ltd is awarded with the Finnish Entrepreneur of the year award for 2020
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The top special transport expert, Transport Company Ville Silvasti Ltd, was awarded with the National Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2020. The company, with headoffice in Jyväskylä, was awarded...
Silvasti helps bring Amazon wind power to Sweden
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The Internet giant Amazon is the world’s largest provider of cloud services – and a massive consumer of energy. A single Amazon data center can use up the same amount of electricity as a...
The wheels keep spinning even through the state of emergency
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2020 has proven to be a turbulent transition to a new decade. However, the pervading uncertainty of the spring has yet to catch up with Silvasti’s yellow trucks. How have we managed to keep the...
Silvasti’s new teamwork model helps carry out major projects with agility and high quality
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Silvasti has adopted a new teamwork model in which each project is carried out by a site manager and two coordinators working together. The project team works out of a site office at the site and...
Even winter will not catch special transport professionals off guard
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At Silvasti, preparations for winter are always thorough and carried out on time. While the special transport industry is characteristically cyclical, with most jobs conducted during the melt season,...
Silvasti transports wind turbine components of the latest technology from Denmark to Finland
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Silvasti has received a significant order from its long-term client Vestas. Silvasti ships the latest technology V150 wind turbine components from Esbjerg in Denmark to Vaasa, Finland. Delivery...