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R-taso turns 40 this year, and we celebrated this milestone together with our amazing staff and their spouses. The evening was filled with a warm atmosphere, memories and good music.

Forty years is is a respectable age, and throughout this journey we’ve remained committed to the same goal: developing and promoting industial safety. That principle still lies at the heart of everything we do, made possible above all by our dedicated team whose commitment shines through in daily work and in the experiences of our customers.

A warm thank you to the City of Raahe for acknowledging our anniversary! And a special thank you to our staff for the wonderful surprise: a photo book capturing R-taso’s history. The stories within it beautifully highlight what our culture is built on: committed people, working together towards a common goal. R-taso is all of us. Our whole team contributes to our safety culture and its continuous improvement.

Our company was founded on the idea of creating the world’s best stairs and platforms. That idea still guides us today, and our work continues strong on an international level as well. We are proud to serve as experts in the ISO 14122 working group, where we bring Finnish expertise into a global safety standard.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone for the past years – and above all for the years still ahead.
Cheers to the next 40 years!

The Kauppalehti´s Success Certificate is a mark of achievement and reliability. The certificate is awarded to companies that, based on financial indicators, have performed better than other companies of the same industry and size. Companies are compared across six different areas: growth, profitability, liquidity, solidity, and risk tolerance.

Thank you to our team and partners, success is built together!

Customer satisfaction is not just a metric for us, it is our core and our most important value. Sustainable cooperation is only built with satisfied customers. So, what is the most important factor for good partnerships and successful projects? We believe customer satisfaction is achieved when high expectations are also met in terms of quality, service, and smooth cooperation.

This year, R-taso Oy celebrates its 40th anniversary. In honor of our anniversary, we sent out a compact survey to find out what our customers value most in working with us and where we could improve.

95% will recommend us to others
96% will use our services again

According to the results, our customers value our expertise and speed and ease of customer service the most. Our customer-oriented approach, dedicated persons for contact, and strong problem-solving skills also received praise. You also rated the quality of our 3D models and products highly. Thank you for the great feedback!

What do you think is the best part of working with R-taso?

Openness & honesty & customer orientation

Good service, quality of 3D designs and products, delivery reliability, initiative

Experience is evident, general professionalism

Smart solutions, clear designs

Modular structures, speed and scalability

Ability to recognize customer needs

Quick and effective solutions to problem areas. Clear instructions. And then something rare! The delivered package was arranged in installation order – not with the first-needed parts at the bottom!

Platforms are important in industry. It’s great to have a supplier who can fast provide designs, drawings, calculations, and platforms.

It’s amazing to work with a partner like you. As a supplier partner, we feel great pride in the decades-long cooperation!

Strong understanding of customer needs. Modular products enable short design times and effective solutions.

It’s easy to discuss different options and how they should be implemented. Overall, very fast service. The 3D models are accurate and high quality.

Easy first-time ordering experience, received good advice on what to consider when planning installation.

After receiving the quote and placing the order, discussions related to the product and design were quick and smooth.

We also asked for suggestions on where we could improve. We received constructive ideas such as adding more product images online and a desire for more frequent visits from our sales representatives. Thank you for sharing your suggestions!

Thank you to all our customers for your responses!
These excellent customer satisfaction results point out the success of our long-term work and highlight the central role of customer focus at the heart of our operations.

The international standard for access systems, ”EN ISO 14122 Safety of machinery – Permanent means of access to machinery”, is currently undergoing a revision. The goal of this update is to improve the standard’s clarity, applicability, and above all the safety of working environments worldwide.

Finland is represented in the international working group by our CEO, Ville Törmänen. In addition to virtual meetings, the group has already convened in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Boston for the revision process. The development of ISO standards is a consensus-driven and multi-stage process, aiming for global alignment and consistency.

“The revision of the standard aims to improve working conditions and to ensure safe access to machinery and equipment globally where the standard is applied,”
says Ville Törmänen, CEO of R-taso Oy.

Revising a standard typically takes several years. We keep our clients informed about upcoming changes and ensure that the solutions we design are always safe and fully aligned with the latest standards.

The standard EN ISO 14122 Safety of machinery – Permanent means of access to machinery is currently under revision. The working group, consisting of experts from all around the world, gathers regularly for this standardization work.

The good news for our customers is that R-taso´s CEO Ville Törmänen participates as Finland´s representative in the working group. Therefore, our customers have the best and most up-to-date information on the safety standard´s requirements.

”A good standard improves work safety in factories wordlwide”, says Ville Törmänen.

This week the international group of experts gathered in Stockholm at Swedish Institute for Standards, SIS office.

R-taso´s sponsor athlete, hurdler Saara Keskitalo became the fifth Finn to break the record of 13 seconds in women’s 100 metre hurdles.

Saara´s competing season 2024 ended successfully in September, as she became second in the international games in women’s 100 metre hurdles in Ostrava, Czechs. Saara timed 13,21 seconds, the winner was timed 13,16.

Saara broke the time limit of 13 seconds in July as she timed 12,84, which is the fifth best all-time recorded result in Finland. In Kalevan Kisat, National Championships, in June Saara won third place.

Congratulations to Saara on your success and happy training times getting ready for your next season!

R-taso will be present at the Subcontracting Fair during 1.-3.10.2024 and Energy trade fair during 22.-24.10.2024, both held in Tampere. Welcome to meet us and discuss how we can help you in means of access!

Early in 2024 R-taso decided to support the young athlete Saara Keskitalo in achieving international levels in her athletic career. Supporting Saara in her athletics is a part of our social responsibility actions.

Saara’s early season has been successful. The so-called magic limit of women’s 100 metre hurdles is said to be 13 seconds. Saara beat that limit generously by running the time 12,84 in Joensuu games in July. It fell short only seven hundredth of a second from the Paris Olympics result limit. Saara won bronze in the Finnish athletic games in the end of June, which is a great achievement considering the high level in Finnish women’s sprint hurdles.

The season is still running. R-taso wishes Saara good luck for the rest of the summer races!

Smart solutions for energy production

Demeca delivers modular solutions for agricultural manure processing, for nutrient recycling and for self-sufficient energy production. R-taso has designed perfectly fitting walkways for safe use and maintenance for Demeca´s biogas plants.

Demeca´s energy efficient biogas plants help to produce energy and biomethane for traffic use. The biogas process utilizes farmed animals’ liquid manure and also agricultural dry feeds and industrial side streams. Demeca´s product development has invested in the past year in scaling the farm sized biogas plant modules into bigger units, which enables so called satellite plant deliveries and other communal methane tanks and/or component deliveries. Due to modular structure the biogas plant is modifiable and easily installed. The biogas plant´s heart is the biogas reactor, which needs safe walkways for usage and maintenance.

R-taso delivers professional walkways and maintenance platforms for various needs for Demeca. The 3D model proposals and offers for different solution alternatives always arrive promptly after requests. At Demeca we can concentrate on our core business, as the walkway designs are already designed to the detail and only need a quick check-up. R-taso´s modular structures are solid in their design and the products´ installation is clear and easy.

Modular and sustainable structures

Modular product structure is an efficient way to decrease the climate impacts of steel construction. When modularity and bolted connections are utilized in structural engineering, the structures can easily be modified, expanded, dismantled, and moved to a new location. Modularity enhances the optimal use of resources and minimizes the waste of raw materials.

R-taso is a pioneer in optimizing the carbon footprint of steel structures. “We want to participate in creating a sustainable future and wish to promote steel structures´ circular economy, where the value of materials stays in the cycle as long as possible. Recycling steel structures should be the last stage, before which all possibilities of repairing and reusing have been considered. In addition to optimizing the steel structures we have invested in carbon footprint calculation. We can deliver product-specific carbon footprint calculations for our solutions”, says Ville Törmänen, CEO of R-taso Oy.

R-taso Oy

R-taso Oy is a Finnish company specialized in 3D design and manufacture of industrial walkway solutions. The family company was established in 1985. We are your turnkey partner in maintenance platforms and walkway solutions, combining state-of-the-art 3D design service and high-quality, modular products. We are passionate about our 3D design know-how and have invested remarkably in our 3D design development and in our customer service. Our clientele comprises of major industrial companies all over the world.  

Demeca Oy

Demeca Oy is a growing Finnish expert company for farming technology and bioenergy. Demeca produces intelligent solutions for farm manure processing and nutrient recycling and for self-sufficient energy production. Demeca provides comprehensive services: sales, production, installation, maintenance and spare parts services, design and product development. Our values guide our operations. We are familiar with farm operations and deliver biogas plants on a turnkey basis.

www.demeca.fi/en

When aiming for success, the best and most safe solutions are needed, whether we are talking about world-class sports or walkway solutions. R-taso has decided to participate in supporting the young athlete Saara Keskitalo in 2024 on her journey to the top of Finnish all-round athletics. Saara is R-taso´s new sponsor athlete and we want to encourage her in her career.

Saara Keskitalo is on the peak of Finnish women´s 100 metre hurdles, where she has achieved Finnish championship medals during three years already. Saara is now focusing fully on her athletics´ career and she is aiming to European championships. We are proud of our new partnership – welcome to R-taso´s team Saara!

Sports teach us many values: endurance, discipline and teamwork. These values are shared also in R-taso´s team. We believe that success depends not only on how we work, but also on how we can encourage and support others. We are proud to encourage a young athlete. With this support we also want to commit to inlfuencing the society in a positive way.

Safe trainings to Saara! Let´s work our way to success!