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18.6.2008
Paulig’s roastery project in a nutshell
In Paulig’s coffee roastery project, premises for both production and offices are being built at Vuosaari harbour, and operations will be moved there in the course of 2009. In the completion stage, the roastery will have a capacity in excess of 40 million kilos, which is more than 100 million packets of coffee per year. Capacity can be boosted as demand grows by expanding the production process and extending the building. The production plant will serve the markets of Finland and the export countries. The main designers are Tommila Architects Ltd and Pöyry Engineering Oy, the construction is the responsibility of Lemminkäinen Group company Lemcon Ltd, and the interior design is in the hands of Studio Bergroth & ABBD. The investment amounts to almost 120 million euros.
The progress of the roastery project:
- Consideration of the possibility to build a new roastery began in the 1990s.
- A concrete step was taken in June 2004: Gustav Paulig Ltd and the City of Helsinki signed a letter of intent on a plot transaction in the planned business park next to Vuosaari harbour. Tommila Architects Ltd was chosen as the main designer for the new roastery and the plant design was entrusted to Pöyry Engineering Oy.
- June 2006: Paulig Ltd’s Board of Directors decided unanimously to carry out the roastery project and to begin the biggest industrial investment in the company’s history, with a cost estimate of almost EUR 120 million.
- April 2007: Gustav Paulig Ltd and the Lemminkäinen Group company Lemcon Ltd sign a contract for the construction of the new roastery’s manufacturing, office and warehouse premises.
- May 2007: The city of Helsinki’s Building Inspection Board approves the construction permit for the project.
- June 2007: Studio Bergroth & ABBD was chosen as the winner of the interior design competition for the new roastery. The winning team was entrusted with designing the entire interior of the roastery. The harmonious architecture of the interiors covers all facilities: manufacturing and offices.
- July 2007: The earthworks got under way.
- September 2007: The foundation stone of the new roastery was laid on 20 September 2007.
- November 2007: Contracts for the procurement of process equipment for the roastery begin to be made in stages.
- June 2008: The roastery building reaches roof height.
- Spring/autumn 2009: Paulig’s employees in Vuosaari will gradually move into the new roastery. The first coffee will be sent to the market from the new roastery in July 2009.
- June 2008: The roastery building will reach roof height.
- Spring/summer 2009: Paulig’s employees in Vuosaari move into the new roastery. The first packet of Juhla Mokka blend will be sent out from the new roastery in July 2009.
- September 2009: the office premises are occupied and their staff move in.
- November 2009: The Steel Structure Association grants the new roastery the Steel Structure of the Year Award for 2009. At the end of November all coffee manufacturing is relocated in its entirety to the new roastery and the old roastery is closed down.
- January 2010: the roastery is officially inaugurated on 21 January 2010
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Further information:
Project Manager Minna Forsström, Gustav Paulig Ltd
Mobile phone +358 40 702 9896,
minna.forsstrom@paulig.fi
Communications Manager Leena Miettinen, Paulig Ltd
Mobile phone +358 40 562 7302,
leena.miettinen@paulig.fi
www.paulig.fi/uusipaahtimo
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