- CEO
- Pasi Nieminen
- Full Time Employees
- 224
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Trucks/Construction/Farm machinery
- Address
- Kuurnankatu 24 Joensuu NK Finland 80100
- IPO Date
- Jul 21, 1998
- Business
- Kesla Oyj Kesla Oyj designs, manufactures and markets forest technology and material handling equipment for forestry and other industries worldwide. The company offers tractor equipment including chippers, loaders, trailers, stroke delimbers and grapples; logging equipment such as harvester heads, grapples and forest machine cranes; truck and stationary cranes encompassing timber cranes, city cranes, industrial cranes and recycling cranes along with their grapples; and KESLA Defence solutions for military engineering applications. Kesla Oyj operates production facilities in Joensuu, Kesälahti and Ilomantsi, Finland, with a sales office in Appenweier, Germany, and sells products across Europe, North America and other regions, where exports account for over half of its revenue. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Joensuu, Finland, the company employs approximately 232 people and lists its A series shares on Nasdaq Helsinki. Recent developments include the launch of two new full-tree cranes, KESLA 2225 and KESLA 2228, in June 2025 to expand its product range; the appointment of a new sales and aftermarket director in June 2025; multiple downward revisions to its 2025 earnings guidance in June and October 2025 amid prolonged market uncertainty, weak demand and geopolitical tensions; and the renewal of its management team structure announced in March 2025.