We’ve interviewed Kari Tuominen, Peikko’s Director, Wind Turbine Foundation Technology, several times before, but we didn’t realise just how much research and development goes into the company’s renowned foundations. Kari talks us through the meticulous process and give us his thoughts on the future…
PES: Welcome back to PES. For the benefit of new readers, would you mind reacquainting us with the company and how you serve the wind industry?
Kari Tuominen: Hi again. Our main scope is onshore foundations where our offering is starts from components through to turkey projects. Our main customers are OEMs, investors and contractors. Each stakeholder and each project has different needs and we take care of them individually.
Right now, our main volumes are in Europe but we already have many cases outside Europe. For example, one important service area in components is anchor cage deliveries including anchor bolts and rings. This is something that we can take care of with high industrial distribution ability. Furthermore, our main deliveries are in Europe, but we already have several cases going on in Africa, Asia and South America.
A second important area for us is foundations, where we carry out turnkey projects or design and component deliveries of Peikko Foundation.
PES: And how has business been recently?
KT: Not boring at all! It is growing rapidly in the component and foundation areas, for example. In addition, we are growing fast geographically. We have wind component production units in Finland, Slovakia and Germany, and we are already preparing new production units to make more efficient wind product deliveries outside Europe.
