Mesera Cranes Finland

The Paimio factory was established to meet the professional forestry needs of our customers. At Mesera, we design and manufacture all of the main crane components ouselves, only using selected key partners for other parts and services.

This helps ensure all of our products are of the highest quality and can be operated in the most demanding of conditions for the entirety of their long life spans. We like working closely with our customers and developing long-term partnerships – guaranteeing that our customers get precisely want they want.

Situated close to the Helsinki-Turku highway, the factory has excellent transport connections by road and air (30 km from Turku, 150 km to Helsinki-Vantaa airport).

Mesera – 50 Years of Crane Manufacturing

1964

On- and Off-road cranes development begins.

1965

First Fiskars forest crane F6000S with “Tukkikurki”.

1969

Begin of export operations (Austrian export with Hubert Palfinger). Crane options handling (grapple, skidder, rotator etc).

1971

Forest crane production moved to Salo.

1973

Steel casting and steel structure exploit in base and column structures.

1976

First forest crane prototypes from Salo.

1988

On March 1988 Partek acquire Fiskars Salon Konepaja and manufacturing of hydraulic forest cranes. Forest crane manufacturing continues with brand Loglift Oy Ab.

1990

Co-operation begins with Loglift and FMG-Timberjack (later known as John Deere)

1992

Timberjack crane manufacturing in Salo until 1998

1993

Det Norske Veritas approved ISO 9001 Quality Sertification

1997

Partek acquires Oy Sisu Ab (e.g. Valmet forest cranes). Forest crane manufacturing together with the Swedes until 2004 (..Komatsu Ltd. acquires Valmet forest crane consept).

2009

September 2009 Loglift outsources on-road crane component manufacturing and off-road crane manufacturing businesses to Mesera.

2010

Mesera announced first own innovative forest crane model, M240H harvester.

2013

Forest crane production moved from Salo to Paimio.

2015

Mesera – 50 years of crane manufacturing.

2018

Management of Mesera acquires the entire capital stock of the company.