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Procons Oy Ab
Formerly	Waasan Vanne
Company type	Private
Founded	1934; 91 years ago
Headquarters	Malax, Finland
Key people	West Johnny Klas-Erik (CEO)
Revenue	€3,068,000 (2020)
Net income	€222,000 (2020)
Owner	Leif Sandqvist (from 2002)
Website	procons.fi
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Procons Oy Ab is a Finnish company specialized in sheet metal roll forming and subcontracting. Main business areas include sliding door profiles, bike mudguards and stays, profiles for the electrical and mining industries as well as sheet metal products. The company was founded in 1934 and is located in Malax, Finland.^[2]

History

The company that would become Procons Oy Ab was Waasan Vanne, founded in 1934 in Vikby, Finland. It developed and manufactured bicycle mudguards, luggage carriers and rims.^[3] In the 1990s, the company shifted its focus to the production of metal profiled products and built automated profiling production lines for thin sheet metal.^[4] In 2002, Leif Sandqvist, a former regional executive at Bosch, bought Waasan Vanne. He relocated the company to nearby Malax, his hometown, the next year^[5] and, in 2011, reincorporated it as Procons Oy Ab.^[1]

Products

Bicycle parts

Procons is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of bicycle fenders and stays^[5] with a production of about 750,000 fenders per year. The product range consists of various models and brands that are produced mainly from 0.5 mm sheet metal in a fully automated line.^{[citation needed]}

Other

The company acts as a subcontractor providing roll-form manufacturing of various profiles for heavy industry clients.^[6] It also develops and manufactures components for the assembly of sliding doors.^[5] Other business areas include eccentric pressing, welding, and assembly.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Procons Oy Ab". Kauppalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^ "Procons byter majoritetsägare". Vasabladet (in Swedish). Malax. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^ "Procons fann sin nisch". Vasabladet (in Swedish). Malax. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^ "Procons History". Procons. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jung, Linn. ""Man skall vara bäst på det man gör", säger far och son Sandqvist". VASEK (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Namn Procons Oy Ab". Finnmet (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2022.