In 2025, it will be 55 years since forest mac­hine ent­repre­neur Einari Vidgren foun­ded a forest mac­hine fac­tory in Vie­remä, Fin­land. The anni­ver­sary year will start on a high note as the 21,000th PONSSE forest mac­hine has been manu­fac­tu­red  and will be deli­ve­red on February 6th, 2025, to Scheff Log­ging & Truc­king Inc. from Min­ne­sota, USA

Scheff Log­ging & Truc­king Inc. is a family busi­ness establis­hed in 1977. Today, Jhace Pear­son, the company’s repre­sen­ta­tive in the third gene­ra­tion, will come over to the Ponsse fac­tory with his best friend Matt­hew Vosika to receive their new Ponsse Buf­falo. It is an honour for Scheff Log­ging & Truc­king Inc. to receive Ponsse’s 21,000th forest mac­hine. Scheff Log­ging con­si­ders it vital that Ponsse’s entire per­son­nel are com­mit­ted to excel­lent ser­vice. Scheff has grown into a three-gene­ra­tion har­ves­ting and trans­port com­pany and employs more than 40 pro­fes­sio­nals. Scheff Log­ging would like to thank eve­ry­one at Ponsse for this mag­ni­ficent mac­hine!

Log­ging toget­her worldwide for 55 years

Throug­hout its his­tory, the Fin­nish family-owned com­pany has focused on the deve­lop­ment and pro­duc­tion of cut-to-length forest mac­hi­nes and the pro­vi­sion of main­te­nance ser­vices for them. While all forest mac­hi­nes are still manu­fac­tu­red in Vie­remä, Ponsse is at home in forests around the world, as the com­pany cur­rently ope­ra­tes in the log­ging sites of almost 40 count­ries.

“Since the ear­liest days, Ponsse’s dri­ving force has been the belief that only the best people, in coo­pe­ra­tion with cus­to­mers and sta­ke­hol­ders, can deve­lop and manu­fac­ture the best forest mac­hi­nes in the world. Still today, forest mac­hi­nes are deve­lo­ped and manu­fac­tu­red in the same way by more than 2,000 Ponsse emplo­yees. As a result of long-term coo­pe­ra­tion, Ponsse has grown over the years to become the world’s lea­ding manu­fac­tu­rer of cut-to-length forest mac­hi­nes,” says Jarmo Vidgren, Chair of Ponsse’s Board of Direc­tors. In honour of the anni­ver­sary, we are going on a worldwide tour to meet our cus­to­mers and sta­ke­hol­ders,” Vidgren emp­ha­sizes.

Events around the world

In accor­dance with the theme of the anni­ver­sary year “Log­ging toget­her worldwide”, Ponsse is celebra­ting the miles­tone by invi­ting cus­to­mers, sta­ke­hol­ders and Ponsse people to join the anni­ver­sary tour. The anni­ver­sary tour starts from Fin­land on March 18 and con­ti­nues around the world during the year.  Welcome to the events: https://events.ponsse.com/

Jarmo Vidgren
Chair of the Board of Direc­tors