Saalasti means Shift
Saalasti means a shift to rails, recycling and renewables. We are all about green technologies and products and using them to create shifts.
Saalasti Group: Shift to Green Technology!
As a family-owned green-technology company, we are committed to leading the change towards a greener, more sustainable future. By shifting road traffic to rail, promoting the circular economy with advanced recycling technology solutions, and harnessing the potential of biomass, we’re working towards making sustainability the norm.
We serve customers worldwide, and understand the importance of global collaboration in tackling today’s most pressing environmental challenges. With a 40 MEUR turnover and hundreds of dedicated professionals working persistently, we are all set to shift to a better future!
You can be part of a shift by joining your forces with Saalasti whether you are an employee, a business partner, or a customer.
Our companies are sustainable market leaders
Saalasti Green Technologies companies develop only sustainable products and services. They are global market leaders in their businesses:
Saalasti Biomass: Pure value from renewables
Saalasti Biomass is an expert in products and processing plants for mechanical dewatering, particle size reduction, and particle structure porosification of various biomasses. Our customers are power plants, pulp mills, sawmills, pellet plants, biomass terminals, biochar plants, and potting media manufacturers. Saalasti Biomass has local offices in Canada, Chile, Spain, and Sweden.
To give you an idea about our global impact, in bioenergy alone, our machines produce so much renewable boiler fuel that it replaces all coal used by about twenty big (500 MW) coal-fired power plants.
Saalasti Rails: Solutions for Railway, Subway and Tramway
The products of Saalasti Rails – railway and tramway maintenance trolleys, shunting locomotives and robots and winches – help moving freight and traffic from roads to rails. We also perform maintenance on all rolling stock. Our customers are municipal subway, tramway and railway operators, track construction and maintenance companies, ports, mines, pulp mills and other large factories and facilities with rail connection.
Saalasti Rails not only manufactures and services rolling stock, but an integral part of our business is to rent rolling stock to our customers. We are the largest renting operator of small locos and railroad maintenance trolleys in Finland. Many of our customers rent machines before buying them to verify their business case.
Saalasti Cross Wrap: Handling sustainable material flows
Saalasti Cross Wrap’s solutions handle bale material flows in many kinds of recycling and alternative fuel industries. The fully automatic bale dewiring, bale opening, and bale wrapping machines help our customers to enhance their productivity, worker safety, and sustainability. Saalasti Group acquired Cross Wrap in 2021.
Of all Saalasti Group companies, Saalasti Cross Wrap has the most international customer base: 650 machines in about 70 countries.
Our machines’ lifespan is measured in decades. Life-cycle services and maintenance are crucial parts of all our businesses.
What makes Saalasti Green Technologies special?
Profitable international growth from 14 M€ to 40 M€ in 4 years
Profitable growth is our core target. All our companies have a target of growing yearly in average 15 % (incl. both organic and inorganic growth).
Serving our customers
To keep our customers’ machines running all the time, we have 150+ employees working in Canada, Chile, Finland, Spain, Sweden, and United States.
Repeated creation of groundbreaking new technologies
We understand our customers’ needs. Therefore we can improve the current techonology to create real shifts.
Third-generation family business
Shift to Green Technology!
With third generation of the Saalasti family owning and operating the company, we have targets set far in the future.
When Saalasti was founded in 1945 it all started with locomotives, in other words with a shift to rail. Nowadays all the Saalasti Green Technologies companies contribute to the green shift with their corresponding products and services.
Leading with values
We lead and make decisions based on our values. If a business is not green we don’t go to that business.
Our values:
We enjoy creating technologies to shift the future
We strive to improve every day
We build a good workplace together