Pöyry
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Pöyry PLC (Finnish: Pöyry Oyj), which merged in 2019 with Swedish company ÅF into AFRY, was an international consulting and engineering firm that served clients globally across the energy and industrial sectors and provided local engineering services in its core markets. Its focus sectors were power generation, transmission, and distribution; forest industries; chemicals and biorefining; mining and metals; transportation and water. It changed its name from Jaakko Pöyry Group in 2006. The company was listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and was headquartered in Vantaa, Finland.[2]
Native name | Pöyry Oyj |
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Company type | Julkinen osakeyhtiö |
Nasdaq Helsinki: POY1V | |
Industry | Engineering |
Founded | 1958 |
Founder | Jaakko Pöyry |
Defunct | 2019 |
Successor | AFRY |
Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
Number of locations | Offices in 45 countries |
Products | Engineering and project management, management consulting |
Services | Management Consulting; Engineering Services; |
EUR 4 million (2015) | |
Number of employees | 4,881 (2019)[1] |
Website | www.poyry.com |
The company was founded by Jaakko Pöyry, who spearheaded its growth from a small engineering office in Finland to a global corporation in his special field of interest, the forest products industry.
Pöyry delivered around 10,000 projects annually including engineering consulting services for major projects such as:
- The world's longest traffic tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland
- The world's largest combined power and desalination plant, Ras al-Khair in Saudi Arabia
- The first hydropower dam on the lower Mekong river, the Xayaburi Dam in Laos
- The largest and most energy efficient waste-to-energy plant in Finland, Vantaa Energy, Finland
- One of the world's most advanced sewage systems, Emscher, Germany
- The world's largest single-line pulp mill, Eldorado, Brazil
- One of the world's largest offshore wind farms, Lillgrund Wind Farm, Sweden