Valmet Automotive

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Valmet Automotive Oy
Type Osakeyhtiö
Industry Automotive industry
Founded 1968
Headquarters Uusikaupunki, Finland
Products Automobiles
Revenue 65 milj. € (2008)[1]
Employees 1425 (2010)[2]
Parent Metso
Website Valmet-Automotive.com
Gate to the Valmet factory.
Since 2011: Fisker Karma sportcar of carmaker Fisker Automotive

Valmet Automotive (former Saab-Valmet) is a Finnish car maker. The majority of company is owned by Metso (formerly Valmet). Valmet Automotive is a contract manufacturer of specialty automobiles.[3]

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[edit] Production

Currently Valmet Automotive manufactures Porsche Boxsters since 1997 and Porsche Caymans since 2005. The assembly contract will come to an end in 2012.[4]

On July 15, 2008 Valmet Automotive announced an assembly contract with Fisker Automotive. The company started manufacturing the Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedans in 2011.[5][6]

[edit] History

Saab-Valmet was established in 1968 as a joint venture of Valmet and Saab-Scania. The automotive plant was placed in Uusikaupunki, Finland. Since 1992 the company was owned by Valmet alone, and in 1995 it was renamed as Valmet Automotive. Since the merger of Rauma and Valmet in 1999 the owner is Metso.[7] On 4th November 2010 Valmet Automotive signed agreement to buy Karmann´s roof-component sections in Osnabrück, Germany and Zary, Poland.[8]On the Autumn 2011 Russian media reported that Valmet will build 300 SUVs for Marussia Motors in 2012.[9]

The history of manufacturing:

[edit] Gallery

  • Car models produced by Valmet

  • Saab 95

  • Saab 96

  • Saab 99

  • Saab 90

  • Saab 900

  • Saab 900 Convertible

  • Saab 9-3

  • Saab 9-3 Convertible

  • Saab 9000

  • Talbot Horizon GL

  • Talbot Solara

  • Talbot 1510

  • Opel Calibra

  • Porsche Boxster

  • Porsche Cayman S

  • Th!nk City

  • Fisker Karma

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Key figures 2007". Valmet Automotive. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/cms.nsf/pages/463B8A2F1456DF34C22570FF004FACAA?opendocument. 
  2. ^ "Facts & figures". valmet-automotive.com. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/cms.nsf/www/facts. Retrieved 2011-05-02. 
  3. ^ "Valmet Automotive at a glance". Valmet Automotive. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/cms.nsf/www/glance. 
  4. ^ "Valmet Automotive's current assembly contract with Porsche to come to an end in 2012". Valmet Automotive. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/bulletin.nsf/PEBD/8BEA6EBAD367D2C5C2257474003900DF?opendocument. 
  5. ^ "Report: Fisker Karma full production delayed to February 2011". green.autoblog.com. http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/27/fisker-karma-full-production-delayed-to-february-2011/. Retrieved 2010-07-03. 
  6. ^ "Valmet Automotive announces a Letter of Intent for an Assembly Contract with Fisker Automotive". Valmet Automotive. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/bulletin.nsf/PEBD/5979AF477BFC7C95C2257487001AE95E?opendocument. 
  7. ^ "Company history". Valmet Automotive. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/cms.nsf/pages/60B018D69B2E7CE9C22570FA0035665B?opendocument. 
  8. ^ "Pontos and Finnish Industry Investment to develop Valmet Automotive with Metso; First step is the acquisition of Karmann´s convertible roof business". wallstreet-online.de. 2010. http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/3046889-pontos-and-finnish-industry-investment-to-develop-valmet-automotive-with-metso-first-step-is-the-acquisition-of-karmann-s-convertible-roof-business. Retrieved 2010-11-06. 
  9. ^ "Finnish factory to make SUVs for Russia's Marussia -Reports". helsinkitimes.org. http://www.helsinkitimes.org/htimes/business1/16713-finnish-factory-to-make-suvs-for-russias-marussia-reports-.html. Retrieved 2011-09-21. 
  10. ^ "Porsche’s Finnish success story: 227,890 Boxsters and Caymans". valmet-automotive.com. 2011. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/bulletin.nsf/headlinespubliceng/ADB15534224D1B0CC225788400418888. Retrieved 2011-05-02. 
  11. ^ "Development of the Chrysler - Talbot - Simca Horizon". Rootes-chrysler.co.uk. http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-development/dev-horizon.html. Retrieved 2011-05-02. 
  12. ^ "THINK City production starts at Valmet Automotive". valmet-automotive.com/automotive. http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/bulletin.nsf/PEBD/0D0E1E14E3072B3FC225768800344C46?opendocument. Retrieved 2009-12-11. 

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Coordinates: 60°48′32″N 21°26′45″E / 60.80889°N 21.44583°E / 60.80889; 21.44583


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