Our Values
We believe that companies and people need well designed and built products made in a sustainable way by valuing the people who make them. Our working culture is grounded on four guiding principles.
Customer focused
We add value for our customers and help customers achieve their goals. We build and nurture long-term partnerships. We treat customers fairly and expect fair treatment.
Achieving together
We collaborate across teams and sites and support each other. We benefit from diversity and respect every individual. We celebrate progress and achievements.
Empowered
We take ownership for own performance, behavior and growth. We explore opportunities to improve and learn from mistakes. We make decisions in own responsibility area based on data and evidence.
Engaged to perform
We keep our promises: deliver on time, with quality, at competitive cost. We proactively detect and solve challenges with solution focus. We continuously improve our competences and capabilities.
Strategy
Scanfil's Updated Strategy "Geared for Growth"
We drive our growth and secure efficiency through segment focus, geographical expansion, offering, acquisitions, Dream Factory program, productivity and supply chain excellence.
Geared for growth
We are shifting to seek a balance between organic and inorganic growth aiming at 10% growth per annum over the business cycle. We are looking for potential acquisition targets that would complement our factory network in Asia (outside of China), North America, and Eastern Central Europe.
Your global, most preferred supply chain and manufacturing partner
Our vision goes for all our stakeholders, such as our customers, our people, and our suppliers.
Mission
Scanfil helps customers to succeed by providing effective and innovative solutions that bring products from ideas to life and maintain product competitiveness over the lifespan.
What we do and our target customers
- Industrial customers
- Focus on Industrial, Energy & Cleantech, and Medtech & Life Science
- Low to medium volumes
- Products with PCBAs
- Box-build and system integration
- Long-term co-operations
We always strive for “Best in class” in manufacturing and have quality as our guiding star in everything we do.
The Board of Directors
Harri Takanen
Harri Takanen (born 1968)
a Finnish citizen
Education: Master’s degree in Engineering
Scanfil’s Board of Directors: Member of Board since 2013
Current role: Professional Board Member and the CEO of Jussi Capital Oy as of 2021
Previous roles: Harri Takanen has worked for Sievi Capital plc as CEO 2007 – 2011. He was CEO of Scanfil plc and Scanfil EMS ltd. during 1.1.2012-31.3.2013. He has served Scanfil Group since 1994, for example as Director of operations in China, Scanfil (Hangzhou) Co., ltd’s Managing Director, Technology Director, Director of Customer Relations, Customer Service Manager and Plant Manager of Sievi mechanics.
Not independent of the company and major shareholders. As Chairman of the Board and based on the overall independence assessment, Harri Takanen is not independent of the company and owns more than 10% of all the company’s shares.
Chairman of the Board: WellO2 Oy
Chair of the Board
Dr. Thomas Dekorsy
Dr. Thomas Dekorsy (1963)
A German citizen
Education: Ph.D. in Engineering
Scanfil’s Board of Directors: Member of Board since 2023
Current role: CEO of saniXTREME GmbH as of June 2023
Previuos roles: He was the Global Head Business Unit Automotive (ad. interim) of Amann & Sähne GmbH & Co. KG. He has served in various leadership roles e.g as the Managing Director of Prettl Management Services GmbH 2021–2022, the Chief Operating Officer of Lakesight Technologies Holding GmbH 2019–2021, the Chief Sales Officer of Escatec Sdn. Bdh. 2018–2019 and many others since 1989.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Member of the Board of Directors
Bengt Engström
Bengt Engström (born 1953)
A Swedish citizen
Education: Mechanical Engineer’s degree
Scanfil’s Board of Directors: Member of the Board since 2015
Previous roles: Bengt Engström has held a number of executive positions at several companies, both in Sweden and globally, for example at Whirlpool, Bofors AB, Duni AB and Fujitsu.
Independent of the company and major shareholders.
Chairman of Board of Directors: Nordic Flanges, QleanAir AB, Qlosr AB, BEngström AB and BEngström Förvaltning AB
Member of Board of Directors: KTH Executive School, Real Fastigheter AB and Scandinavian Chemotech AB
Member of the Board of Directors
Christina Lindstedt
Christina Lindstedt (born 1968)
A Swedish citizen
Education: Master’s Degree of Business Administration and Commercial law
Scanfil’s Board of Directors: Member of the Board since 2016
Current role: Senior advisor at QleanAir
Previous roles: CEO of QleanAir 2020-2022. Christina Lindstedt has held a number of executive positions at AB Electrolux, Sony Ericsson and Sony, both in Sweden and globally. Primarily she has served as a Business/Product area head for businesses such as eg; smartphones, washing machines, automatic lawn mowing and New Business Areas. In addition, she has been responsible for establishing global sourcing operations in China.
Independent of the company and major shareholders.
Member of Board of Directors: Xplorebiz AB
Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Audit Committee
Juha Räisänen
Juha Räisänen (1958)
A Finnish citizen
Education: Master’s Degree of Industrial Engineering & Management
Scanfil’s Board of Directors: Member of Board since 2020
Current role: Managing Partner at Valuenode GmbH
Previous roles: Juha Räisänen has held a number of executive positions globally at ICL-Fujitsu, Nokia, SanDisk, KONE and Aliaxis, based in Finland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Brussels and currently in Vienna. Primarily he has served as a sales, manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing & procurement, quality and safety head for businesses such as IT systems & software, mobile phones, telecom networks, semiconductors (NAND flash memory products), elevators, escalators & automatic doors and plastic pipes & fittings.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Member of the Board of Directors: Bluefors Oy and Valuenode GmbH.
Member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Audit Committee
Minna Yrjönmäki
Minna Yrjönmäki (1967)
A Finnish citizen
Education: Master of Science (Econ.)
Scanfil’s Board of Directors: Member of Board since 2023
Current role: Chief Financial Officer of Wihuri Group as of October 2023.
Previous roles: She was the CFO (ad int.) of Raute Corporation May 2022–April 2023. She has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Uponor Corporation 2019–2021, SVP Group Financial Controlling 2016–2019 and SVP Financial Services and Reporting 2014–2016 at Outokumpu Oyj. Prior to that, she worked at Ahlstrom Oyj 2004–2014 e.g as Group and Business Area Controller and as Group Controller and other financial roles at Huhtamaki Oyj 1991–2004.
Independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Audit Committee
Management Team
Christophe Sut
A French and Swedish citizen
Education: Master’s degree in Marketing and Sales, Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Mathematics
Current role: CEO as of 1 September 2023
Previous roles: Christophe was previously the President of the Manufacturing Solutions at Sandvik AB 2021–2023, Executive Vice President of Global Solutions 2016–2021, Vice President of Business Development 2014–2016 at ASSA ABLOY AB, and the Development Director, EMEA at CLIQ 2012–2014. Global Strategic Marketing Manager at Niscayah Group 2010–2012, and various marketing and development roles at ASSA ABLOY AB in Sweden and France 2001–2010. He has had various marketing roles at ITW Group and SAM Outillage 1997–2001.
CEO of Scanfil
Steve Creutz
A Swedish citizen
Education: Courses in Management, Sales, and Finance
Current role: Vice President of Northern Europe
Previous roles: Steve has worked as General Manager at Scanfil Åtvidaberg AB, Sweden (2016-2024), and also in various managerial and business development positions at Scanfil Åtvidaberg AB and PartnerTech Åtvidaberg AB.
Vice President of Northern Europe as of January 1, 2025
Christian Kesten
A Swedish citizen
Education: M.Sc. in Electronical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Current role: Vice President of APAC
Previous roles: Christian has worked as General Manager at Scanfil, Suzhou, China (2017-2024), and in various senior engineering and management positions at Sony Mobile Communications, BMC SE Potevio, and Ericsson.
Vice President of APAC as of January 1, 2025
Markku Kosunen
A Finnish citizen
Education: Technology undergraduate
Current role: Vice President of Central Europe
Previous roles: During the years 2022–2024, Markku led Scanfil’s procurement as Chief Procurement Officer. From 2022 to 2010 Markku has had several leading positions e.g., Chief Technology Officer, Vice President Operations, and Director Operations. Before joining Scanfil Group Markku has worked at Mecanova Oy as Vice President of Business Development 2005–2007, Director of Operations during 2008–2010 and in different management positions at mechanics plants of Flextronics and Ojala-yhtymä in Finland during 1993–2005.
Vice President of Central Europe as of January 1, 2025
Anette Mullis
A Swedish citizen
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Social Work)
Current role: Chief People Officer. Anette joined Scanfil on October 14, 2024.
Previous roles: Before joining Scanfil Anette was the Vice President of Human Resources and Sustainability at Arelion 2021–2024. Prior to that she was Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Mycronic 2018–2021, Head of HR Solutions Area OSS at Ericsson 2017–2018, held several leading HR positions at CSL Behring 2010–2017, Associate Director at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 2004–2007 and also worked in managerial HR roles at IKEA Homefurnishings 1988–2004.
Chief People Officer
Teemu S. Ohtamaa
A Finnish citizen
Education: LL.M, Trained on the Bench, Licensed Trial Counsel, JET, CBM-Chairperson.
Current role: General Counsel & Board Secretary
Previous roles: Teemu has worked in Scanfil Group since 2000 as a Legal Counsel, HR Manager, General Counsel and Board Secretary. During 2011-2017 he worked as Sievi Capital Oyj’s General Counsel and Board Secretary.
General Counsel & Board Secretary
Anna-Maria Tuominen-Reini
A Finnish and Swedish citizen
Education: Hanken School of Economics, M.Sc. (Economics and Business Administration); Hanken School of Economics, Doctoral Researcher (Commercial Law)
Current role: Chief Supply Chain Officer as of 1 September 2025
Previous roles: Tuominen Capital Oy Chief Executive Officer 2025, Billerud AB Senior, and Executive Vice President of Procurement and Wood Supply 2021-2025, AB Marmaskog Managing Director 2021-2024, Outotec and Metso-Outotec plc Senior Vice President, Sourcing and Manufacturing, and Vice President of Procurement 2019-2021, StoraEnso plc Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, and other leading roles 2011-2019, Unilever plc Supply Chain Director and other leading roles 2007-2011, Huhtamäki plc Demand Manager and other roles in marketing and supply chain 2003-2007, and Cebal (Pechiney Group) various roles in marketing, sales and supply chain 1997-2003.
Chief Supply Chain Officer as of September 1, 2025
Kai Valo
A Finnish citizen
Education: Master’s degree in Economics
Current role: Chief Financial Officer
Previous roles: During 2015 – 2016 Kai was the CFO for Norpe Group. Prior to that, he was in Lite-On Mobile Group Director of Finance and Control in Beijing, China 2009 – 2015. In 1999–2008, he held several finance related management positions at Perlos.
Chief Financial Officer
Christina Wiklund
A Swedish citizen
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program
Current role: Chief Commercial Officer
Previous roles: Before joining Scanfil Christina was the Vice President of Sales EMEA at GE Additive. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Sales at Flex 2006–2018, Account Manager at Solectron 2002–2006, and in business development and account management roles at Ericsson 1999–2002.
Chief Commercial Officer and Vice President of Americas (latter as of June 10, 2025)
History
From Garage to Factory – Scanfil’s Early Years 1976-1989
Humble beginnings
Scanfil’s founder Jorma J. Takanen made his way forward from modest beginnings. His father was a small-scale farmer from Sievi who had fought wars. With his wife, they had 13 children, including Jorma.
Despite the humble beginnings, Jorma, a talented pupil especially in mathematics and got a chance to study further than many of his contemporaries, graduating in chemical engineering from Tampere Technical College while working and raising then a family of four.
Good elsewhere, best in Sievi
Jorma and his wife Riitta and their relatives all shared an interest in entrepreneurship. Jorma envisioned a company focused on manufacturing ventilation filters the market of which looked promising as filters sold in Finland were almost entirely and expensive imported product. The company was also planning to produce vehicle and specialty filters.
The first shareholders of Scanfil were Jorma, his older brothers, his brother-in-law and Riitta’s father who invested an equal share in the company’s capital. The company was based in Sievi as the business-friendly municipality suffering from population shrinkage offered to build the company a new industrial hall designed to specifications and help with other running costs as well.
Scanfil was registered in the Trade Register on 4 June 1976 with Jorma as its CEO. The operations started in his older brother’s garage until the hall was constructed. First employees were hired through a vocational training program.
From filters to metal sheet processing
Recession caused by an oil crisis cast a shadow over the filtering business, as home heating, lighting and the use of cars was regulated in entire Finland. Filters did not sell particularly well. Luckily, the company had invested in machines to process metal sheets needed for filters, which became the basis of new business for Scanfil: mechanics.
Scanfil’s move into mechanics and the issues created by Sievi’s location 500 kms north of Helsinki made Jorma Takanen realize that in order to succeed, Scanfil had to assemble, manufacture, and process customer parts in-house as much as possible as it made no sense to send half-finished metal parts from Sievi all the way to Helsinki for processing as their competitors did. By doing more themselves, margins would increase and customer service would improve. The company invested in new (or used) machines, including Japanese Amada Pega sheet-metal machines, whenever cash flow allowed.
Expanding business and customers through acquisitions in Finland
In 1982, Scanfil made its first acquisition in Finland by acquiring an electronics manufacturer Elektrovieska Oy, who had run into financial trouble. Jorma saw that expanding into electronics fit perfectly with Scanfil’s strategy of producing customer products in-house as much as possible. However, it was a bold move as Jorma did not have expertise in electronics.
In 1980’s Scanfil also purchased a refrigerator equipment manufacturer Dinsi Oy and an electronics engineering company Elacon Oy.
With the purchase of Eletrovieska, Scanfil’s customer base expanded to Oy Kone Ab. Around this time, long-lasting relationships were also built with Vaisala Oy and Oy Nokia Ab. With Nokia, cooperation began with their MikroMikko computers. Partnership with Nokia opened a new chapter in Scanfil business offering immerse growth and international expansion of the business.
Growing with Nokia – Scanfil during 1990-1999
Expansion to Oulu, Finland
In the 1990’s, Scanfil grew with its biggest customer Nokia. Scanfil’s plant in Oulu near Nokia’s premises was inaugurated in early June 1991. With its new facility, the company grew outside of Sievi. The plant was a heavy project and a huge investment. Even years later, the founder Jorma Takanen liked to say, “All challenges feel small compared with the Oulu project.”
The setbacks started when the order book of the Oulu factory collapsed in the middle of the construction work as demand for the Nokia Networks’ DX 200 digital telephone exchange parts stopped overnight when Soviet Union ended bilateral trade without transition period and Finland was hit by a deep recession with record level of unemployment rate.
Navigating recession and embracing opportunities
Despite the difficulties, Scanfil came through the recession years with profit. Jorma Takanen summed it up: “Growth slowed a bit in 1991, but even then we didn’t go backwards.”
A key factor to Scanfil’s survival was that it was lean long before Toyota’s management philosophy became widely known worldwide. The key elements included eliminating non-value-adding activities and involving employees, while the savings were made possible by top-tier machinery and technology. These factors helped the company out of the recession, alongside Nokia’s spectacular rise.
Scanfil had supplied Nokia with NMT base-station cabinets for a long time, but orders practically exploded as GSM drove demand. Additionally, electronics was quickly emerging as Finland’s largest industrial sector boosting exports. The Oulu plant, which had caused so many anxious moments, suddenly became the enabler of the growth. The facilities in Sievi, expanded already six times, became too small and Scanfil moved into new and larger premises in November 1994.
Megalomaniac mechatronics
Scanfil’s growth was driven not only by Nokia but also by growing demand for mechatronics, products that combine mechanics and electronics, as well as new ways of operating in the industry. Companies were also increasingly outsourcing processes that were not part of their core business and requiring deeper cooperation (= contract manufacturing).
Having weathered the recession in good financial shape and Nokia fuelling the company’s growth, Scanfil took advantage of new demands and began buying mechanical operations from its customers, including competitor Paimion Kojeistoteollisuus Oy (owned by ABB Oy), mechanical workshops of Wallac Oy, welding equipment from Kemppi Oy, and Nokia’s plant in Äänekoski. Scanfil also built a new plant to in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Scanfil’s turnover increased 3.5-fold between 1995 and 1998, rising to more than half a billion marks (about €146 million). At the same time, headcount almost doubled to just over 730. The sons of Jorma and Riitta Takanen, Jarkko and Harri, also joined the family business permanently.
Despite the remarkable growth driven by Nokia, Scanfil’s management increasingly found themselves asking if the dominance of a single main customer was a threat or an opportunity. But reducing Nokia’s share of Scanfil’s revenue was nearly impossible, as the company and its order volumes continued to grow. However, not too far in the future, Scanfil was forced to find new sources of revenue when telecommunications network investments became fewer, and Nokia’s downhill started due to complacency and slow response to the smartphone revolution.
Technology
Dream Factory to Improve Operational Excellence
Our Dream Factory
The Dream Factory concept aims to achieve top-tier competitiveness and customer satisfaction through operational excellence. It focuses on optimizing factory performance by connecting people, processes, and equipment with real-time data and AI. The program emphasizes digitalization, automation, and the use of modern tools like eDHR for creating and sharing instructions.
The ultimate goal is to develop a multi-skilled workforce that operates seamlessly with advanced technologies, leading to unparalleled operational excellence and a future where factories are highly efficient and effective.
The Dream Factory concept represents a bold step towards the future of manufacturing.
Smart Technology
Smart Technology emphasizes value-driven automation, which focuses on enhancing efficiency and productivity. It is AI-assisted and connected, ensuring seamless integration and intelligent decision-making. Additionally, it offers universal and flexible solutions that can adapt to various needs and environments.
Digital Flow
AI & data foundation involves building a robust data infrastructure powered by AI. Advanced planning and scheduling optimize production schedules with advanced algorithms. Real-time data visibility ensures transparency and immediate access to critical data. AI-assisted quality control leverages AI to maintain high-quality standards. Traceability tracks every step of the production process for accountability. Workflow optimization streamlines workflows to enhance efficiency.
Factory Flow
Optimizing WIP, layout, space, movements, and utilization ensures efficient use of resources and space. Shop-floor visual management involves implementing visual tools to manage shop-floor activities. Dream Factory production line concepts focus on developing innovative production line designs.
Workforce
A multi-skilled and agile workforce involves cultivating a versatile and adaptable team. Upskilling and scaling with Lean Six Sigma enhances skills through continuous improvement methodologies. Continuous improvement and problem solving foster a culture of ongoing enhancement. Digital skills development equips the workforce with essential digital competencies.
Open Positions at Scanfil
The key to our success is having skilled employees who are committed to stay one step ahead of our competitors. Interested to join our team?
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