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Way We Work

Third-generation family business

Founded in 1945, Saalasti Group is fully owned by the Saalasti family. It all started with locomotives, in other words with shift to rail. Nowadays the Group companies Cross Wrap, Saalasti Finland, and Steelwheel all contribute to the green shift with their machines 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.

We strive to be a good workplace. Our reputation is widely known, and we are a preferred supplier and employer.

Companies

Saalasti Finland: Pure value from biomass

Saalasti Finland is an expert in biomass mechanical dewatering, particle size reduction, and particle structure porosification. Our customers are power plants, pulp mills, sawmills, pellet plants, biomass terminals, biochar plants, and potting media manufacturers. Saalasti Finland has country 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.

Shift to

BioChar
Bioenergy
BioPotting Media
BioFiber
Pellets

Steelwheel: Special railway solutions

Steelwheel is an expert in special railway solutions like shunting locomotives and robots, shunting winches, and railroad maintenance trolleys. Our customers are railway operators, track construction and maintenance companies, ports, mines, pulp mills and other large factories and facilities with rail connection.

Steelwheel means a shift to rail logistics

Shift to

Rail
Electric Shunting
Autonomous Trains

Cross Wrap: Handling sustainable material flows

Cross Wrap’s solutions handle bale material flows in many kinds of recycling and alternative fuel industries. Cross Wrap’s 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.