Espotel's new office in Lahti !

Espotel has had an office at Lahti for a short while now. Reason to open the office was based on two important things : First of all, we have long time customers in the area, and secondly a key person moved there. Thus it was an easy decision to open an office there, and start looking for more Customers and more personnel there.

I made my first visit to the office yesterday. It's actually quite fast to drive to Lahti, didn't take too long, just a bit over an hour actually. The motorway is fast but not that interesting though...

Right now we have just one person working at Lahti, but he's more like a one man band, able to play all instruments, and can do prestudies, software, automation and electronics design as well as project management too. Jouko even has a small lab there to do minor electronics assemblies and tests. 

The office location is in Salpakangas Hollola, with a short distance to many existing or potential customers in the area. We don't need a fancy Espotel Tower in Lahti yet, a down to earth approach is quite fine at the moment...

The first goal at the moment is to interview and select suitable new Designers to Lahti office, and of course to get more local customer base. We can offer work towards Lahti with Jouko being the local contact person and work being done at Espoo, Jyväskylä or Wroclaw for example. Next year it's likely that we'll have 3-5 persons working at our Lahti office.

R&D Subcontracting is local Service Business, and now we can serve our Customers at Lahti much better than before !