The path leading there We support companies establishing themselves in our region with active and productive practical measures, from an initial exploration up to the time when your company is a cornerstone of our corporate community. We are committed to doing everything we can for your success – with decisive and rapid steps. A unique way to a company’s successful establishment in an area Three steps to success: 1) Explore: Two days in Kauhajoki/the region – come, see and make a good decision! 2) Establish yourself: We promise that the design / construction of your premises will be started within a quarter. 3) Grow and develop: We are committed to doing everything we can to engage you actively in the cooperation between the companies in the region Contact us! Book a time for our popular exploration event with Ms Jaana Suksi, Project Manager, at +358 40 5711305

1. The Future of Your Company in the Kauhajoki Region
the steps To
establishment

2. Explore:
Two days in Kauhajoki/the
region – come, see and
make a good decision!
We support companies establishing
themselves in our region with active and
productive practical measures, from an
initial exploration up to the time when your
company is a cornerstone of our corporate
community.
We are committed to doing everything we
can for your success – with decisive and
rapid steps.
A unique way to a company’s successful
establishment in an area.
We will assign you a customer officer to help
you with all the issues related to your estab-
lishment in the area.We promise to answer
to all inquiries by the end of the following
workday at the latest.
All success is based on personal relationships.
We will help you build personal relationships
with the corporate community in our area
starting from the very first step of your estab-
lishment here.
Meetings with local entrepreneurs, arranged
by us, will honestly reveal what it is like to work
as an entrepreneur and manager is in the
Kauhajoki Region.
Our Key Customer Model gives a human
contact to the entrepreneur and their family.
Persevering support
We will not vanish in our offices after you have
become established here but we will support
continuous growth and your willingness to
stay with us.You will have an opportunity to
meet active local financiers and
entrepreneurs as early as your
first visit.
The Kauhajoki Region
Our region offers an environment
with the most positive attitudes to-
wards entrepreneurship in Finland,
a highly modern infrastructure, and
a great natural location for growing
industries, such as wind power. The
region is also the ”Silicon Valley” of
material transfer and automation
systems with its Logistia company
network; more than half of the logis-
tic systems equipment manufactu-
red in Finland are made here.
Our open fiber-optic network, one
of the most efficient in Europe, pro-
vides fast and high-capacity data
connections, allowing for new busi-
ness opportunities.
The region is a real hub of entrep-
reneurship,encompassing a record
number of companies, i.e. about
3,500, in relation to density of popu-
lation.
Please feel free to contact us!

3. Establish yourself:
We promise that the design /
construction of your premises
will be started within a quarter.
Grow and develop:
We are committed to doing everything we
can to engage you actively in the coopera-
tion between the companies in the region.
EXPLORE
ESTABLISH YOU
RSELF
GRO W AN
DDEVE
LOP

4. Come and See – Day 1
09:30 Welcome by the region
10:00 Availability of labor force and living conditions
in the locality
11:30 Sightseeing tour – what does it really look like here?
12:00 Lunch – attended by a local entrepreneur
13:00 Email and telephone break
13:30 Availability of premises and traffic connections –
a review
15:00 Visit to premises and plots
19:00 Dinner. Also attended by local financiers, according
to the wishes of the participating companies.
A fast, interesting and immediate way for companies considering establish-
ment in our area to make a global analysis of its benefits.
All information and the feeling you need for your decision on establishment on
one occasion.
Two days in Kauhajoki/the region – come,see and make a good decision!
An efficient, fast and pleasant way to gather and see on the spot all the
essential information and feeling influencing the decision on establishment in our
area. Company, entrepreneur, Management, and families.
We will assign a customer officer for you. Through this person, all the issues related
to your establishment in our region will be taken care of fluently and
swiftly.The customer officer will be present and at your disposal
on both days. EXPLOR
EST

5. Please contact us
Register for the next exploration event with Ms Jaana Suksi,
project manager, tel. +358 40 5711305
Make a Good Decision – Day 2
09:00 Meeting with the local corporate community:
practical experiences with Suupohja
11:30 Email and telephone break
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Partnership opportunities and interests.
Meetings with the potential customers of the companies
establishing themselves in our region
15:00 Return home
RE
TABLISH YOU
RSELF
GROW AND
DEVELOP

6. Have your premises ready in a day
When you have decided to establish yourself in the
Kauhajoki Region, we will remove the practical obstacles
quickly.
You just let us know the framework you desire, and we will
arrange the options for you to choose, be it staff, premises
or local customers.
We promise you that your concrete establishment can be
started within one day from your decision.We offer you an
office at our office hotel free of charge for two months.
You can be confident that all the elements
of your establishment are ‘in the bag’
Possibly the fastest and most efficient way in Finland to
establish business activities.Your success is the responsi-
bility of the customer officer assigned for your company.
Through this person, all the issues related to your establish-
ment will be taken care of fluently and swiftly.We promise
to answer every inquiry without delay.
Basic issues
Our expertise is at your disposal for making investment calcu-
lations,a business plan and project financing applications.
Entrepreneur and Management
We will take care of the practical aspects needed by you
and your family for you to establish yourselves in our region
as ”one package deal”.
Labor force
We offer you ready-to-sign agreements with local compa-
nies of the personnel sector. Just let us know the desired
job descriptions and numbers, and we will bring you sele-
cted candidates for your decision.
Premises
We offer you ready-to-sign agreements with local providers
of premises. In most cases, there are also premises availab-
le for immediate establishment.We promise a work station
for the person organizing your establishment right after you
have made a decision on your establishment in our region.

7. EXPLORE
ESTABLISH YOU
RSELF
GROW AND
DEVELO
Contac
t us
If you have already made your decision, please contact
Ms Jaana Suksi at+358 40 5711305.
If you are still considering your move, our exploration service
is a good way to start.
Customers
Customers are a prerequisite for every company. We will
help find local customers for your business by arranging
contacts for your sales and marketing (when you have
become established in our region).
Products and technology
Existing connections with the R & D actors in the region
(universities etc.) and for the financing of R & D.

8. Network
We actively arrange for different events and training cour-
ses to meet the needs of local companies and entrepre-
neurs.At these events, you not only learn but also make
personal contacts and create networks.
The Kauhajoki Region
Our region offers an environment with the most positive
attitudes towards entrepreneurship in Finland, a highly
modern infrastructure, and a great natural location for gro-
wing industries, such as wind power. The region also hou-
ses an important international company network, which
produces more than half of the logistic systems equipment
manufactured in Finland.
Continuous growth and success
We are committed to doing everything we can in order
that your business will be successful and stay in our region
for long.
Your success is the responsibility of a customer officer as-
signed to your company.Through this person, all the issues
related to business in the area will be taken care of fluently
and swiftly.We promise to answer all inquiries by the end of
the following workday at the latest.
Our customer officer will actively contact you, unless you
prohibit this.
Products, services and technology
The number of providers of R & D services is increasing and
becoming more and more diversified all the time.We keep
a register of all the competence of this kind.

9. These Companies Already Have Guidelines in Place
– a good future in Kauhajoki
Älvsbytalo Brought Permanent Employment to Kauhajoki
Älvsbytalo established itself in Kauhajoki in 2005.A great number of Finnish municipalities competed for the company’s
establishment in their areas.The work done was a successful investment because the plant has given permanent emp-
loyment to some 90 people.With dozens of subcontractors, the company has been an important employer in the entire
region for seven years.
Also Plant Manager Jan-Erik Rusk regards establishment in Kauhajoki as a success story.
–We have found excellent employees, everyone taking responsibility for their own work.This way, we assure our high
quality.
Lagerwey Finland Oy:
Dutch-Finnish Wind Power from Kauhajoki to Conquer FinlandKaskisten tuulivoima Ltd, a company established by Jaakko Leppinen, was based in the Logistia Technology Center in
November 2012. Cooperation with the Dutch turbine manufacturer Lagerway, one of the international pioneers in the
wind power sector, also brought Lagerway Finland to Kauhajoki.The operations of Lagerwey Finland consist of the development and implementation of wind parks as well as the sale
and maintenance of wind turbines. Moreover, the aim is to start the production of turbines.
– We are looking forward to the Finnish market.We believe that our unique technology and cost-effective tower solution
suit well here, where high quality, reliability and excellent profits are expected from wind parks, says Aart van de Pol,
the owner and manager of Lagerwey Ltd.
Suit Networks
– a Joint Company with Its Roots in the Café of the Technology Center
Suit Networks Ltd is a company focused on logistics and transportation services, operating in the Logistia Technology
Center, Kauhajoki. Suit Networks encompasses companies specialized in logistics, software technology, and mobile
equipment. Entrepreneurs and a professor in Logistic Systems with an office in the building found each other and a busi-
ness idea during the popular coffee break in the café of the Technology Center.
At the moment, the joint company is developing a national-level logistics concept for carcass disposal.Whenever ne-
cessary, Suit Networks Ltd builds new partnerships and makes cooperation agreements with different actors.

10. Kauhajoki – Karijoki – Isojoki – Teuva
Contact us!
Book a time for our popular exploration event
with Ms Jaana Suksi, Project Manager, at +358 40 5711305
or Ms Pia Nurmela, Secretary, at +358 40 7653004
Information about available premises:
www.suupohja.info
For more information about your company’s future in the
Kauhajoki Region, please visit
www.investinkauhajoki.fi
www.polkuperille.fi