8 September, 2023, Oulu, Finland: Conlog Group is attending DSEI 2023 at stand H7-230 as part of the Finnish Pavilion, where it will present its Tactical Communications Shelters and Deployable Hydraulic Mast Systems to support military communications in challenging and denied environments during forward/dispersed operations.
Conlog’s mission is to provide high-quality infrastructure to keep military forces connected during remote operations in environments where traditional communications may be degraded due to enemy tactics, natural disasters, or severe climatic conditions – particularly extreme cold. The company’s technologies are designed to be resilient against cold to protect people, electronics and mechanically-operated components, keeping them functioning even in Arctic conditions.
The company’s containerised, rapidly deployable communications station has been ordered by the Finnish Defence Force and the Swedish FMV. In June 2023, Conlog’s containerised communication system was announced as part of Saab’s new r-TWR Deployable: a modular, secure and quick-to-deploy digital tower, for flexible air traffic control missions. With high availability, mission-to-mission modularity and flexibility, the r-TWR Deployable is mission ready within an hour and can be operated remotely from a secure location at a base or connected to a centralised facility hundreds of miles away, keeping military personnel safe. The system includes all equipment required for air traffic management at an established or temporary landing strip and can be rapidly transported by road or rail on one or two standardised trailers, or in a cargo aircraft of C-130 Hercules size.
The r-TWR includes Conlog’s expandable shelter and newest hydraulic mast system; a quick-deploy free-standing mast system that can lift radars or antennas hydraulically to a height of 24 meters or more. The newest masts can reach a height of 35 meters without guy wires.
The r-TWR system was displayed during Finnish Air Force Academy Exercise Kesäbaana 23 in August, and during Tech Runway (TechRWY) in Pyhtää in late August.
Juha Moisio, CEO, Conlog Group, said: “Recent orders have demonstrated the critical role that Conlog technologies can play in keeping military forces connected in austere operational environments, as does our teaming with Saab on the r-TWR Deployable system. With our vast experience in extreme cold and the heat of the deserts, we can provide solutions that enable our customers and their partners to succeed no matter how demanding their mission environment.”
Conlog shelter with hydaulic mast system
Conlog Group: Conlog is Finland’s principal defence systems integrator, providing NATO and its allies with modern, integrated security solutions and comprehensive life cycle management and sustainment services. Conlog’s mission is to provide operational safety and security to its partners by prioritising survivability for those who operate our systems, regardless of the environment or the mission. This is why Conlog systems have earned an outstanding reputation for operational success. We are the first port of call for customers requiring unique solutions for complex mission requirements. Conlog is headquartered in Oulu, a major technology hub in Finland and the home of numerous technological innovations. Since 2018 Conlog Oy has been part of the Swedish System Engineering Solutions 37 AB (SES37). www.conlog.fi
Media contact: For more information please contact Claire Apthorp +44 (0) 7920403068
At Conlog, we view product delivery as just the beginning of a long-term relationship with customers. Robust training, maintenance, support and end-of-life services underpin our comprehensive approach.
At Conlog, we see our relationship with our customers as a lasting partnership. We’re not just about delivering high-quality products; we’re equally dedicated to providing excellent after-sales service, including comprehensive maintenance, support, and training packages.
Once a product is delivered, our clients receive all necessary documentation covering its usage, care, and maintenance procedures. We’re passionate about ensuring our products receive the best possible care during their service lives and that those operating them are fully trained for optimal product utilisation.
Training
There is no standard training syllabus for a Conlog product. Each product will have its own customised training system according to the customer’s needs.
Before training is delivered, Conlog specialists will assess the product and the customer’s needs, and then design a training syllabus around these. Either the company can provide instructors or instead can train the customer’s personnel to this end.
In conjunction with the client, Conlog will continue to assess training processes and syllabi throughout the product’s life to ensure these meet the customer’s needs. This process can encompass the provision of new training materials and/or refresher courses.
Maintenance
Despite our commitment to superior design and construction standards, regular maintenance is a prerequisite for our products to deliver their best performance. At times, repairs may be necessary. To meet these needs, Conlog offers a 24-hour hotline for immediate advice and assistance.
We can dispatch our own personnel for on-site repairs or maintenance, whether at the client’s premises or in the field. Our experts are adept at working in a variety of challenging environments. Emphasizing preventive maintenance, we perform regular analyses of product health and usage, helping to foresee potential issues and address them proactively.
This helps anticipate potential problems and remedy these before they occur. Such approaches also help reduce maintenance costs. In some incidences, it may be more efficient to modernise or replace a particular system within a specific product to reduce the possibility of technical challenges, or to eliminate obsolescence.
The modular design of Conlog’s products helps greatly in this regard. It is easy to swap out old or obsolescent systems and components and replace them with new ones.
Ensuring an adequate supply of spare parts is integral to ensuring that the company’s products work in a safe and efficient manner throughout their lives. Conlog maintains a comprehensive inventory of spare parts that can be delivered to customers rapidly as and when needed.
The company manufactures spare parts for its products in-house, and procures parts from third-party suppliers when needed in a rapid, cost-effective manner. Conlog can also warehouse spare parts and full products for customers.
This can include securely storing products which may have classified or secret systems. As many of Conlog’s products are container-based, the company provides a suite of container-handling equipment for customers.
End-of-Life Services
Conlog designs its products to last as long as possible, but inevitably, there will come a time when these must be retired. The company provides product decommissioning services, including the safe and efficient disposal of the materials, systems and equipment within our products.
This ensures our products and their constituent parts do not present a hazard to people or the environment. Where possible, we will recycle as much of a product as possible.
Conlog’s Finnish roots, where temperatures can swing from -50°C in winter to 37.2°C in summer, have instilled a steadfast commitment to enable operability in the harshest environments.
Finland’s geographic location within the Arctic Circle subjects it to severe weather extremes, with winter temperatures plummeting to -45°C or even -50°C in the country’s eastern regions and Lapland. Yet, its summers can be surprisingly warm, even reaching a record high of 37.2°C in 2010.
This experience with such a wide range of temperatures directly informs Conlog’s product engineering. Ensuring functionality in frigid conditions is a core aspect of Conlog’s designs. Our containerised systems come outfitted with efficient and reliable climate control systems to keep the personnel comfortable and maintain operational conditions for equipment such as computers.
This resilience against cold extends beyond people and electronics; mechanically-operated components, such as the masts on Saab’s R-TWR deployable, digital control tower (for which Conlog supplies the containerised communication system), are designed to function even when laden with ice and snow.
In a dedicated cold weather chamber, we conduct exhaustive tests on subsystems and full products, ensuring their reliability at temperatures as low as -40°C.
Cold-weather operation, particularly in the -30°C to -40°C range, is crucial as materials such as rubber and plastics can become brittle. We source cold-weather performance components from external suppliers and subject them to rigorous destructive and non-destructive tests to guarantee their cold-weather performance.
We have even delivered container-based modules to Antarctica in support of Finland’s research activities and where temperature in wintertime can be from-40 to -70.
Ergonomics is another significant factor in low-temperature operation. Considering that personnel will likely be clad in bulky winter clothing and gloves, Conlog designs its products to be user-friendly under these conditions, with large buttons and switches that are easily operated even when wearing gloves.
Turning up the Heat
Conlog’s concern is not solely with cold weather. In today’s globalised world, militaries often operate far from their home climates, requiring equipment to perform in high temperatures and humid conditions.
We have supplied products to armed forces frequently deployed to hotter regions. Here, too, our stringent design methodologies prevail, with efficient cooling systems ensuring both equipment and personnel can withstand prolonged periods in hot environments.
All-Round Protection
Beyond weather-based adaptations, Conlog’s products are designed to shield occupants and systems from a variety of threats. Our solutions feature robust chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear protection.
Likewise, ballistic protection ensures they can withstand kinetic fire. Given that many of the company’s products include electronic systems, Conlog ensures these are protected against the Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP).
The EMP is a short, but strong, burst of electromagnetic radiation accompanying a nuclear explosion. Several efforts are ongoing around the world to develop directed energy weapons which harness the EMP without needing a nuclear blast. The electromagnetic pulse can enter unshielded electronic equipment via power lines, telephone cables or antennas. Once inside the equipment, EMP voltages can wreck sensitive components.
Conlog employs EMP shielding technologies like Faraday Cages as standard in our products, preventing harmful pulses from damaging the equipment.
Finland’s unforgiving climate has been the perfect foundation for Conlog’s design philosophies. The company ensures its products can work in the world’s most extreme environments while protecting the equipment and personnel they house against a plethora of threats.
Intermodal shipping containers offer a wealth of possibilities for military and civilian customers alike. At Conlog, we leverage these possibilities to deliver unique solutions for our customers.
In existence since the late 1950s, intermodal containers have become the backbone of global logistics. Their straightforward box design allows easy loading onto trucks, rail wagons, and ships.
Standardised lengths of either 6.1m (20ft) or 12.2m (40ft) and heights between 2.44m (8ft) and 2.89m (9ft 6in) contribute to this ease of movement, though there are some exceptions, including containers as long as 13,7m (45ft).
Thinking Inside the Box
The ease with which a container is moved not only impacts the world of commerce; militaries and other civilian sectors like healthcare, the oil industry, and research communities have embraced them. Since our establishment in 1990, Conlog has been capitalising on the potential of containers, delivering tailored solutions to our diverse clientele.
The benefits of containerised products are significant. At the heart of it all, these containers are incredibly easy to move. They can be swiftly loaded onto flatbed trucks or trailers, transported across oceans on various ships, or carried across vast distances by rail wagons.
Whether carrying car tyres or housing one of Conlog’s specialised capabilities, an intermodal container can effortlessly be moved using the global infrastructure. Some military cargo aircraft can even accommodate individual containers.
This versatility means that Conlog’s solutions, like our KOPA military command post encased in a standard 6.1m box, can reach any part of the globe within hours.
What is inside the box is equally important. A standard intermodal container encloses significant volume. A 6m container has 13.7 square metres (146 square feet) of floor space and 33.1 cubic metres (1,170 cubic feet) of volume. This volume is doubled for its 12.2m counterpart. Nonetheless, Conlog engineers can increase these volumes still further by squeezing 34 square metres (376.7 square feet) of floor space from a standard 6.0 m container.
How is this done? The company uses foldable walls, floors and ceilings, which remain flush to the sides of the container when travelling but are folded out to increase space when the container is in use.
The Beauty of Modularity
At Conlog, we pride ourselves on our flexibility. Our customers tell us what they need, and we deliver.
Emphasising modularity, we can easily integrate varying requirements. Many military customers prefer systems that can be updated or changed throughout their lifespan. Using our CL-600 communications station as an example, this containerised system houses radios, computer systems, masts, and other equipment needed for military communications.
The container includes a climate-controlled workspace for up to five operators with ballistic protection and safeguards against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. It even protects against electromagnetic pulses from a nuclear explosion. A diesel generator supplies power, and customers can specify camouflage to avoid detection by thermal imagers, radar, and optronics.
Our philosophy emphasises using the same components and design approaches across our products whenever feasible. This strategy not only reduces costs for our customers but also shortens production and delivery times.
Over three decades of delivering containerised solutions have honed our expertise in modular design.
While each customer’s requirements are unique, we aim to maximise commonality where we can. This may seem contradictory for bespoke products, but it works – as evidenced by the trust placed in us by our military and civilian customers who rely on our products every day.
Conlog has been shaping the future of logistics and defence technology using modular designs and innovation, and our varied portfolio benefits sectors from healthcare to the military.
From mobile command centres to library buses and water tankers, our products are transforming the civilian sector.
We have provided containerised solutions to the oil industry such as maintenance facilities. Containerised generators are another of the company’s specialities along with laboratory containers for the research community.
Military Capabilities
Conlog’s military product line is as robust as it is innovative. Much of our focus is on providing command and control capabilities, housed within versatile shipping containers.
Our offerings range from containerized communication systems and base stations to command posts, complete with extendable masts to increase communication range. We also provide specialist containers for transporting hazardous materials and ammunition.
We’re not just about containers. Our designs can be integrated into standard four-wheel-drive vehicles, providing a mobile command, control, and communications hub. And our work on the BMP-2 armored infantry fighting vehicle—improving its optronics, communications, and camouflage—was a significant achievement that helped our company grow.
Despite our growth, we’ve held on to our agility, the kind you find in a nimble startup. That agility, along with the BMP-2 upgrade, earned us the trust of the Finnish Defence Force, one of our most valued partners.
Supporting all our products is our comprehensive lifecycle and maintenance services. We offer everything from documentation and training to repairs, spare parts, and end-of-life services.
Most of our military clients are based in Finland, but we’re steadily expanding globally—20% of our clients are now from the international market.
People are our Strength
Our talented team of around 100 people is the lifeblood of Conlog, bolstered by a wide network of subcontractors. Our in-house R&D department is a melting pot of different skill sets that come together to create groundbreaking products. We believe in nurturing young talent, offering internships that often turn into full-time opportunities.
Our employees are immersed in every aspect of our work, which they consider one of our greatest strengths. Many of them have served in the Finnish military or worked closely with it, giving us a unique understanding of our military clients’ needs.
As we forge ahead, we remain guided by the principles that propelled us on this journey back in 1990: innovative, adaptable solutions backed by steadfast service and support.
Conlog’s story is a tale of revolution and resilience, proof of how a simple concept—the humble intermodal shipping container—can change the world.
At Le Bourget, Saab followed up the announcement of its deployable air traffic control tower that was unveiled at the Turku Airshow in Finland on 16 June, 2023.
When threats to permanent airbases are becoming increasingly realistic, air forces are looking to expeditionary or remote air operations to cope with challenging scenarios.
by David Donald – June 20, 2023, 1:06 AM
Saab has partnered with Finnish company Conlog Oy to offer a deployable version of its remote tower air traffic management system.
The partners developed the r-TWR Deployable system for expeditionary and remote operations as well as disaster relief applications.
Saab is one of the pioneers of remote tower technology, placing a number of remote towers at civilian locations. The NATO air base at Geilenkirchen in Germany also has a Saab remote tower. Now it has packaged the technology into a twin-container configuration that can be transported by land vehicle or in a C-130-sized airlifter.
Conlog has developed the purpose-built containers that accommodate the system.
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Oululainen puolustusalan yritys Conlog teki taas suuret kaupat – Ruotsin puolustusmateriaalihallinnolta noin 20 miljoonan euron tilaus
Ruotsiin menevä tilaus valmistetaan Oulussa ja Pirkkalassa. Conlog on ruotsalaisomisteinen, mutta sen pääkonttori on Oulussa. Vuonna 2022 yhtiö sai ison tilauksen myös Puolustusvoimilta, arvo on noin 50 miljoonaa euroa.
Puolustus- ja turvallisuusalan yritys Conlog on saanut suuren tilauksen Ruotsin puolustusmaterialihallinnolta. Försvarets materielverkin tekemä tilaus sisältää taktisia mastollisia viestiasemalaitesuojia, ja sen kokonaisarvo optioineen on noin 20 miljoonaa euroa.
– Toimitukset alkavat perustilauksen osalta vuonna 2024. Lisäksi sopimukseen sisältyy mahdollisuus tilata määrätty määrä viestiasemalaitesuojia, ja tämä toteutuisi vuoden 2025 aikana. Todennäköisyys, että jatkotilaus toteutuu, on suuri, sanoo ruotsalaisomisteisen Conlogin toimitusjohtaja Juha Moisio.
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Sweden has ordered tactical communications shelters with deployable masts for its armed forces from Conlog under a €20 million contract.
Finland’s Conlog Group has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to supply tactical communications shelters with deployable mast systems to the Swedish Armed Forces. The deal is worth around €20 million if options are exercised. Deliveries will begin in 2024 and end in 2025.
Juha Moisio, CEO, Conlog Group, said: ‘We are extremely proud to be selected as the supplier of these critical communications systems to the Swedish FMV. This order demonstrates the capability of Conlog Group and our parent company, SES 37, to provide these quality solutions for our customers internationally and support Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation.’
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23 March, 2023: Conlog Group has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to supply its Tactical Communications Shelters with Deployable Mast Systems to the Swedish Armed Forces.
The Contract is valued at approximately €20 million, including options. Deliveries will begin in 2024 and conclude in 2025.
Juha Moisio, CEO, Conlog Group, said: “We are extremely proud to be selected as the supplier of these critical communications systems to the Swedish FMV. This order demonstrates the capability of Conlog Group and our parent company, SES 37, to provide these quality solutions for our customers internationally and support Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation.”
Conlog’s mobile, containerised stations are designed to allow users to maintain communications in the most challenging environments. Its quick-deploy mast systems can lift radars or antennas hydraulically to a height of 24m or more.
Conlog Group: Conlog is Finland’s principal defence systems integrator, providing NATO and its allies with modern, integrated security solutions and comprehensive life cycle management and sustainment services. Conlog’s mission is to provide operational safety and security to its partners by prioritising survivability for those who operate our systems, regardless of the environment or the mission. This is why Conlog systems have earned an outstanding reputation for operational success. We are the first port of call for customers requiring unique solutions for complex mission requirements. Conlog is headquartered in Oulu, a major technology hub in Finland and the home of numerous technological innovations. Since 2018 Conlog Oy has been part of the Swedish System Engineering Solutions 37 AB (SES37). www.conlog.fi
Media contact: Claire Apthorp / / +447920403068