Jukka Pahta

Chief Executive Officer, Koskisen Oyj Koskisen

Search every verified Jukka Pahta interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In an April 2024 interview, Koskisen Oyj CEO Jukka Pahta reiterated the company’s goal of reaching EUR 500 million in revenue by 2027, up from EUR 270 million the prior year, and said growth would also come through acquisitions. He described the types of targets the company is seeking as “sellaisia kohteita, joissa meidän sydän vahvistuu entisestään” (“such targets where our heart becomes even stronger”). Pahta noted that the company has cash on its balance sheet but added that “meillä on nyt rahaa taseessa niin sen hassaa aika nopeasti meidän tyyppisessä toimialassa jossa investoinnit on isoja investointeja et kyllä meidän pitää niinku katsoa se että siihen mihin sitten se raha laitetaan niin me saadaan sille riittävä riittävä tuotto” (“we now have money in the balance sheet, but it gets spent quickly in our type of industry where investments are large; we need to ensure that wherever we put the money, we get adequate returns”). Commenting on market conditions, Pahta identified the construction sector slowdown as the company’s bigger current concern compared to high raw wood prices, saying “kyllä mä sanoisin et se on tää neliraaja jarritus” (“I would say it's this four-limb slowdown”) affecting economic activity. He recalled a customer in Japan describing Koskisen’s sawn timber as “sahatavaroiden Mercedes-Benz” (“the Mercedes-Benz of sawn timber”).