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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.
The Defence Forces received a mandate from the Ministry of Defence to order from Conlog Oy training in the design, implementation, documentation, use and maintenance of protection installations for communication station A, a 20 feet long container.
The overall value of the procurement, without value added tax, is EUR 39.1 million. The procurement is part of the Defence Forces’ development programme.
The domestic employment effect of the contract will be about 113 person-years.
Inquiries: Senior Specialist Riikka Saxlin, Ministry of Defence, tel. +358 295 140 063, and Colonel Antti Tunkkari, Army Command Finland, tel. +358 299 800 (Defence Forces’ switchboard).
Juha Moisio has been appointed as the new CEO of Conlog Oy as of April 1st 2022.
Juha Moisio is extremely well experienced in the defence industry field. After his military career he has worked abroad in different tasks and more recently in Finland as the CEO of Robonic Ltd Oy from 2003 to 2016 and then as director for business development for two Finnish companies. He has served a long term on the board of the Association of the Finnish Defence and Aerospace Industries (AFDA). He is well networked both domestically and abroad as well as with the Finnish Defence Forces. In addition to his military training Juha Moisio has a BBA in business economics, and he is presently studying for his master’s degree in knowledge management. He holds the rank of Major (ret).
“We welcome Juha Moisio as the CEO of our company. I am convinced that together with our motivated and highly professional staff he will be successful in his new and important role,” says Karl Gustav Storgårds, Chairman of the Board of directors of Conlog Oy. “I want to take this opportunity and thank our interim CEO Mr Tauno Maksniemi and our personnel in their excellent work in ensuring the profitability and success of the company. Conlog Oy will now, as an important partner to the Finnish Defence Forces, focus on new growth also in the international markets.”
Conlog Oy is one of leading systems integrators and the leading developer, designer, manufacturer and modifier of products for the defence and security fields in Finland. I am excited to work with the extremely capable staff at Conlog Oy and take the company to next level and to participate in developing the new. I know that the products we supply are best in their filed. I strongly believe in our growth in the coming years both domestically and internationally,” says Juha Moisio.
For more information please contact Karl Gustav Storgårds, phone +358 40 534 3808
Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen has authorised the Finnish Defence Forces to sign a Partnership Agreement with Conlog Oy.
The Agreement covers the maintenance, service and modifications of the systems and equipment manufactured by Conlog Oy or represented by it, and related companies and sub-contractors. Thanks to the long-term cooperation and partnership between the Defence Forces and Conlog Oy that dates back to the early 2000s, Conlog Oy has developed strong competences in areas that secure the domestic security of supply for the critical systems of the Defence Forces also in emergencies.
The total value of the Partnership Agreement services will be approximately EUR 3.3 million per annum, and the Agreement will be in force for 15 years.