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Many companies, including Prohoc, reconsider their positioning in the fast-growing and instantly changing business field as the competition of professionals gets more and more intense. The organization’s strong growth and the focus on building the best employee...

This article explains how Proactor is helping manufacturing customers win in these unprecedented times. But first, let’s take a look at how we got here. THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION It was at the turn of the 17th and 18th century when the first motorized industrial...

The industrial construction business is facing unprecedented challenges. In residential and public construction, the trend has been toward collaborative project implementation models for some time. However, industrial construction has kept traditional lump sum EPC as...

Prohoc’s Project & Account Lead, Antti Pasanen, is a seasoned project leader. Pasanen’s career with projects began decades ago in the paper industry and has since carried him through various positions worldwide. Pasanen once started a conversation with a familiar...

NURTURING MINDSETS Prohoc builds future success in three strategic cornerstones: excellent employee experience and leadership culture, customer success through our expert services, and professional and smooth daily working. “Our mission is inspiring with our people in...

Heikki Kaltola is one of Prohoc’s seasoned professionals, currently working as an Electrical Supervisor in Brazil. Over the past ten years, he has worked in 16 different countries. Around ten years ago, Heikki Kaltola was sitting on an airplane, on his way to his...

Services for capital-intensive industrial projects have been at the heart of Prohoc's actions from day one. It all began with documentation and site supervision services for dear close-by customers Wärtsilä and ABB back in the 90s. Since then, Prohoc has developed...

Portrait: Pekka Antti-Roiko Please tell us a little about your background? I am originally from Kalajoki from Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. I left Kalajoki to study international business in 1996 and studied and worked in Lithuania, Belgium, England, and Ireland. In...

WHAT A YEAR! Everyone has certainly noticed Prohoc’s recent growth story, which we have been able to follow on several different channels. Prohoc is now on the way to becoming a workplace for 500 people in a few years. One step forward was hiring the first full-time...

Today’s European manufacturing industry competitiveness is built on digital and green transition. This manufacturing maturity leap is also known as Industry 5.0 concept, where sustainability, resiliency and human centricity are in focus. Open Smart Manufacturing...

While industry 4.0 is still living its momentum, we need get ready for the next paradigm beyond the clouds, IoTs and robots. Industry 5.0 will bring people back into the business. Many studies claim that we will see increased human-machine collaboration, resiliency...

Tähtipiste Oy, a subsidiary of Prohoc Oy, will be fully integrated into the Prohoc Group and under a common brand with Proactor. The company's new name is Prohoc Works Oy, and together with Prohoc Proactor Oy, it forms a strong team offering smart manufacturing and...

There are several strategies how to generate growth and build strategic partnership with customers. Prohoc has 25 years of experience in project and manufacturing industry services, and that journey in service business has taught us that growth and good partnerships...

We are grateful that so many of our employees have travelled with us through various stages of the company’s development. Read how Pekka Mustonen and Jari Ojanen describe being a Prohocian and what are their thoughts about Prohoc as a company. Pekka Mustonen YEARS AT...

The story of Prohoc started 1996 in Vaasa with unique original purpose to support local hockey club. Over the past 25 years, Prohoc has grown into an international industrial project partner with more than 200 employees, and Customers from around the world. We have...

Requirement Management Services The complexity in large capital projects is constantly increasing. There is always various stakeholders involved during the project and changes will take place during the lifecycle. Ability to maintain traceability of information is...

How it started There is quite an interesting story about the early days of Prohoc Oy. We are living the second half of 1996 and the season for hockey club Vaasan Sport has just started. The young team is eager to put up their best performance, but the club is...

U.S. Marine officer Jake’s vehicle drove over an explosive device in Afghanistan, he looked down to see his legs almost completely severed below the knee. At that moment, he remembered a breathing exercise he had learned in a book for young officers. Thanks to that...

Prohoc Oy appoints Ilkka Palola as the CEO of Prohoc Group starting on 1 July 2021. Matti Manner will become Chairman of the Board of Prohoc Group. Ilkka Palola steps in as the CEO of Prohoc Group 1 July 2021. Currently Ilkka holds the position of Chief Human...

A story that began in 1996 has now reached its third chapter. At Prohoc we have created a new group structure with new subsidiaries, but more importantly, we have redefined our purpose. We believe that successful businesses will become platforms of wellbeing and...