LIFTING SERVICES WITH MORE THAN 60 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Kurko-Koponen provides nationwide services in Finland, and projects aproad by offering a comprehensive fleet of equipment and highly skilled personnel. 

Being a credible lifting industry company with a high level of expertise and national coverage, Kurko-Koponen is devoted to the continuous development of both its fleet and personnel.

Its driving value has always been to operate as a reliable, long-term partner that does not choose its customers by their size. Rather, Kurko-Koponen seeks to meet the particular demands of one and all, whether major industrial companies or private individuals.

Our company has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification by Det Norske Veritas.

You can view the company’s certificates at www.tilaajavastuu.fi.

Kurko Koponen Oy is a member company of INFRA ry, a registered association of the Finnish infrastructure sector. All our lifting jobs comply with the general terms for the rental of mobile cranes set out by INFRA ry.

OUR HISTORY

More than 60 years of operations have certainly left a trail of many twists and turns! However, we can detect a common thread or two, namely machinery and cranes.

1961
Eljas Koponen begins working with tractors and wheel loaders in Varkaus.
1971
The company sells its tractor and earthwork business and invests in lifting services.
1981
A change of generation from father to son: Juha Koponen begins working full-time for the company founded by his father.
2005
Business expands to the growth centres of Finnish Lakeland.
2010
The company's offering expands from lifting service to the telehandler business.
2014
The company sells its telehandler business and shifts its main focus to large construction crane trucks.
2016
The company achieves national service coverage with offices in five locations. It productizes the large construction crane trucks manufactured for company use, creating a new business under the Kurko Crane brand.
2022
Kurko expands to Turku and Oulu.
2023
Rami Koskela becomes the CEO, and the company also gains a new Board of Directors.
1961
Eljas Koponen starts a business, using some tractors.
1978
Eljas Koponen on the occasion of Lokomo 350N delivery.
1979
Crane operators hailing from Varkaus.
1983
A Krupp mobile in the freezing weather of Varkaus in the early 1980s.
1984
Juha Koponen begins working for the family business; pictured here standing beside a rough terrain crane.
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1990
A mobile crane.
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2003
Lokomo mobile cranes still played a significant role in the fleet of the early 2000s.
2003
Strength lies in cooperation.
2006
A large crane and a small one.
2007
Mobile cranes from Savo. Pictured here are Krupp, Terex, Demag and Liebherr mobile cranes.
2007
Koukku Koponen’s industrial unit with mini cranes of the time.
2007
The company’s first crane truck, equipped with a Scania chassis and a Copma crane, transports some mini cranes and a telehandler of its time.
2009
Mobile cranes from Varkaus.
2009
A tandem lift with mobile cranes and a crane truck bringing up the tail end.
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We offer lifting services of the highest quality throughout Finland.

Indeed, providing you with the right equipment in the right place at the right time.

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Southern Finland

Greater Helsinki

Central Finland

Jyväskylä

Western Finland

Turku

Tampere

Eastern Finland

Kuopio and Varkaus

Lappeenranta

Northern Finland

Oulu

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