Pöyry (company)

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Poyry Oy

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legal form Oy
ISIN FI0009006696
founding 1958
Seat Vantaa , Finland
management Martin à Porta, CEO
Number of employees 4,637
sales EUR 522.3 million
Branch Planning, advice
Website www.poyry.de
As of December 31, 2017

The Pöyry office building at the headquarters in Martinlaakso ( Vantaa ), Finland

Pöyry, which now operates under the new name AFRY after the merger with ÅF , was a Finnish service company with worldwide operations . Pöyry offered strategic, technical and organizational advice , planning , engineering , project management and operational support for various branches of industry.

It is named after the Finnish industrialist Jaakko Pöyry , who founded the company in 1958. The global headquarters are in the Finnish city of Vantaa in the Helsinki region ; in addition, Pöyry has permanent branches in around 20 other countries. Pöyry employs around 5,500 people worldwide. In 2013 the company, which generated at the Helsinki Stock Exchange ( OMX ) under the symbol POY1V listed is a turnover of 650 million euros.

On December 10, 2018, Pöyry and the Swedish ÅF announced that they would merge to form a leading European company for engineering and consulting services. The company has been operating under the new common brand name AFRY since November 29, 2019.

history

The company was founded in 1958 by Jaakko Pöyry Veikko Emanuel (1924-2006) to the technical basis for planning a sulphate - pulp mill in Äänekoski create. In the following years Jaakko Pöyry Oyj grew into a renowned planner for the forest, pulp and paper industries in Finland, Sweden and other Nordic countries.

Over time, Pöyry expanded his fields of activity to other branches of industry and continents, with the focus on the raw materials , basic supply and infrastructure industries . Key steps in this expansion were the takeover of Soil & Water and Ekono Energy in 1993 and the technical planning of Elektrowatt at the end of the 1990s.

Since the turn of the millennium in particular, Pöyry has further increased its competence and international presence through the acquisition of numerous smaller planning offices in all parts of the world and is now represented in around 50 countries. In Germany, Pöyry employs 700 people, the headquarters are in Mannheim .

In 2006 Jaakko Pöyry Oyj changed its name and has been called Pöyry Oyj ever since .

Business areas and services

In addition to general management advice, Pöyry particularly offers technically oriented planning and services for the following industries:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e About Pöyry: Pöyry history. PÖYRY Group, accessed December 20, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Pöyry Annual Review 2017 , accessed August 24, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Business Areas & Services. (No longer available online.) PÖYRY Germany, archived from the original on December 30, 2012 ; Retrieved December 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.poyry.de
  4. ↑ Pöyry Oyj. NASDAQ OMX Nordic, accessed December 20, 2012 .
  5. ↑ ÅF intends to join forces with Pöyry - Newsroom - ÅF. Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ From the Neckar lock to the Gotthard tunnel , Mannheimer Morgen, September 10, 2014, page 9