Telko news

Polyma Kunststoff to become Telko Germany Gmbh & Co. KG

We are pleased to inform you that the merger between Polyma Kunststoff GmbH & Co. KG and Telko is progressing smoothly and as planned. Since Polyma...

Next Steps in Telko and Eltrex Strategic Merger to Enhance Product and Service Portfolio

We are delighted to announce that the merger between Telko and Eltrex is progressing smoothly and according to plan. With Polish distributor Eltrex having...

Telko expands further via a strategic acquisition in Germany

Castrol Selects Telko as new Industrial Lubricants Distributor for Poland

Castrol, a leading global supplier of lubricants, proudly announces a new partnership with Telko Poland, part of the Telko Group, as their country partner...

Castrol Announces Expanded Partnership with Telko Denmark to Streamline Product Distribution

Castrol, a worldwide leading provider of lubricants and oils, is excited to announce that Telko Denmark, part of the Telko Group, is not only continuing...

Telko acquires Swed Handling Group

Telko Oy, a leading Finnish supplier of plastic raw materials, industrial chemicals, and lubricants has agreed today to acquire the entire share capital...

Telko expands in Western Europe via a strategic acquisition in specialty products

Telko expands its lubricants business to Western Europe through acquisition in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands. The acquisition strengthens...

Eveliina Myllyluoma to join Telko Management Team

Eveliina Myllyluoma has been appointed as Vice President, People & Culture and member of Telko Management Team as of December 1st 2023.

Telko strengthens its position in the Nordic lubricants market

Changes in Ownership of Telko Machinery Business in the Baltic countries

Telko has sold its Machinery business operations in the Baltic countries and has seamlessly transitioned all machinery-related activities to a new entity...

Sustainability Report 2022: Our effect on a more sustainable future

Telko’s Sustainability Report for 2022 has been published today. The report opens our goals and actions for driving sustainability forward. It also...

Telko acquires Eltrex, a Polish chemicals distribution company

Telko has acquired a Polish distribution company Eltrex. Eltrex is a distributor of specialty chemicals and industrial packaging materials. The company’s...

Telko to divest its Belarusian operations

Telko has signed a binding framework agreement according to which it will sell the share capital of its Belarusian subsidiary FLLC Telko to a person...

Telko to divest its Russian operations

Telko has signed a binding framework agreement according to which it will sell the share capital of its Russian subsidiary Telko OOO to Russian industrial...

Telko has been awarded a Gold medal in  EcoVadis rating

We are happy to tell that Telko has received EcoVadis Gold rating for sustainability! Ecovadis is the world’s most trusted business sustainability rating....

Telko got new ISO certificates

Telko was audited again by LRQA, a leading global assurance provider, and has gotten new ISO certificates. Telko achieved this year ISO 9001 and ISO 14001...

Ukraine

During the last days, our thoughts and actions have concentrated on our Ukrainian colleagues, their families and others who suffer from the war in...

Mika Salokangas appointed as a member of Telko Board of Directors

Starting from February 1, 2022, Mika Salokangas, M. Sc. (Econ.), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Telko Ltd, part of Aspo Group....

ACQUISITION OF MENTUM AS CLOSED

Telko Ltd, leading expert and distributor of lubricants, car chemicals, industrial chemicals and plastics, has closed acquisition of Mentum AS. Now after...

Telko Ltd has agreed to acquire shares of Estonian company Mentum AS

Telko Ltd has signed an agreement on the 26thof October 2021, by which Telko Ltd will acquire shares of Estonian company Mentum AS.

Telko Sustainability Report 2020 published

Telko’s Sustainability report 2020 is published. Our sustainability work continues and deepens, as Mikko Pasanen, CEO of Telko says:

Jani Vahala appointed Telko Chief Financial Officer

I am happy to inform you that Mr. Jani Vahala, M.Sc. (Econ.), has been appointed to the position of Telko Chief Financial Officer as of 1st of February,...

Aspo Group subsidiary Telko strengthens its position in the Nordic lubricants market by acquiring Swedish ILS Nordic AB

Telko Ltd, part of the Aspo Group, has acquired Swedish ILS Nordic AB and its subsidiary Autolubes Nordic AB. ILS Nordic is a strategic lubricants...

Artturi Ylönen to join Telko as Business Controller

Mr. Artturi Ylönen, MSc (Econ), will join Telko as Business Controller on 21.9.2020. He will support the business management by providing accurate...

Telko's Responsibility Report 2019 is published

As Telko’s CEO Mikko Pasanen states in the report, responsibility is one of Telko’s key values. One of our strategic goals is to be sustainability...

Telko focuses on protecting people and securing operations

Telko is following coronavirus situation closely. We are doing precautions to keep our employees, partners and other stakeholders safe. We keep in touch...

Silver medal for Telko in sustainability assessment 2020

Telko has gotten its sustainability assessment results from EcoVadis. Telko was ranked in the best quarter and awarded with the silver medal for 2020. We...

See you at the plastics fair in Helsinki on 11-12 March 2020

PlastExpo Nordic exhibition will be organized at the Helsinki Fair Center on 11-12 March 2020 with the theme “A better future with plastics”. Welcome to...

Interlakokraska 2020 fair in Moscow on 3-6 March 2020

We invite you to visit our stand at the Interlakokraska 2020 exhibition in Moscow, Expocentre fairgrounds from third to sixth of March 2020 in Pavilion...

Alexandru Zgardan appointed as Regional Director for South East Europe (Romania, Balkans)

Alexandru Zgardan has been appointed as Regional Director, South East Europe (Romania and Balkans) and Sales Director, Plastics and Chemicals for Telko...

Sergey Kireev joined Telko to lead industrial chemicals business in Russia

Telko strengthens sales management of industrial chemicals business in Russia, the largest business unit of Telko. Sergey Kireev has joined Telko to lead...

Telko at Interplastica 2020 exhibition in Moscow

This year Interplastica had recycling solutions and plastic industry innovations as themes on 28 - 31 January 2020. Telko presented:

Arctic Lapland Rally in Finland - Lindholm to defend his SM1 class win

Team GRX’s Emil Lindholm and Mikael Korhonen are defending their SM1 class win of the Arctic Lapland Rally, the opening competition of Finnish...

Telko at industry events in 2020

We have started the year 2020 by opening a new event calendar for Telko!

Happy holidays and all the best for 2020!

Telko Team wishes our customers, employees, business partners and friends

Alexey Anokhin appointed as Sales Director for Belarus

Alexey Anokhin has been appointed as Sales Director for Telko Belarus starting from 25 November 2019. Alexey is responsible for Plastics and Chemicals...

Telko Romania is now open

Telko is further expanding its business operations on the Romanian market. A new company Telko Romania SRL has been established in the beginning of...

Madina Umbetova appointed as General and Sales Director for Telko Central Asia

Madina Umbetova, MBA, has been appointed as General Director and Sales Director for Telko Central Asia starting from 22 October 2019. Madina is...

Mikko Pasanen appointed Managing Director of Telko Ltd

Mikko Pasanen (b. 1973), M.Sc. in Economics, has been appointed Managing Director of Telko Ltd and a member of the Group Executive Committee of Aspo...

K 2019 fair in Germany on 16-23 October - meet Telko team and our partners

K fair in Düsseldorf presents the latest trends and innovations in plastics. There will be around 3,200 international exhibitors and 232,000 visitors from...

Meet us at Plastex 2019 fair in Uzbekistan

Telko participates at Plastex 2019 fair in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Come and meet us!

Bronze medal to Lindholm and Korhonen in Finnish Rally Championship

Team GRX’s Emil Lindholm and Mikael Korhonen achieved their goal on the last SM-rally of the season. The twosome rose to the SM1-class bronze medals after...

Telko at Interplastica fair in Kazan, Russia on 2-4 September 2019

Telko will be present at Interplastica exhibition, opening on Monday in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. You are most welcome to visit Telko stand...

Telko Ltd is now ISCC Plus certified

Telko Ltd has obtained the ISCC Plus certification as the first distributor in Finland. ISCC certification is an example of Telko’s commitment to provide...

Anton Vasilenko appointed as Sales Director, Plastics for OOO Telko

Anton Vasilenko, PhD, Chemical Engineering, has been appointed as Sales Director, Plastics for OOO Telko (Russia) starting from 5 August 2019.

Telko's Responsibility Report 2018 is published

“At Telko, we see responsibility as essential for our environment, people and society, and also as a vast strategic opportunity. We are committed to...

Telko at Plastpol fair in Kielce, Poland on 28-31 May 2019

We got hundreds of visitors at our Plastpol stand, interested mostly in products of our main suppliers - EMS Grivory, Multibase (DOW) and LG Chem - as...

Lindholm fights for third Finnish Rally Championship competitions win in Riihimäki

Team GRX’s Emil Lindholm and Mikael Korhonen will pursue Finnish Rally Championship series SM1-group’s third win in Riihimäki on Saturday 25 May 2019....

Telko’s CEO Kalle Kettunen to leave the company

Telko CEO Kalle Kettunen has resigned and will leave the company. Telko’s Board of Directors has today appointed CFO Tomi Tanninen as the interim CEO....

Satu Kuosmanen appointed as Inbound Marketing Manager

Satu Kuosmanen, M. Sc. (Econ.), has been appointed as Inbound Marketing Manager for Telko, starting from 16 May 2019.

Lindholm dominated The Finnish Rally Championship season opener from start to finish

Team GRX’s Emil Lindholm and Mikael Korhonen dominated The Finnish Rally Championship 2019 season opener in Rovaniemi from start to finish. Lindholm who...

Telko at Interplastica exhibition in Moscow 29.1. –1.2.2019

Interplastica is an international specialized exhibition for plastics and rubber processing and the region’s leading industry platform. Interplastica...

Lindholm presents new Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 in Finland

Last season SM1-group’s second place winner and Arctic Lapland Rally’s overall competition’s second place driver Emil Lindholm, 22, and his co-driver...

Patricia Nyberg appointed member of the board of directors of Telko

Patricia Nyberg (M.Sc. (Econ), MBA (IMD), born 1985), has been appointed member of the Board of Directors of Telko Ltd, part of Aspo Group, starting from...

Telko strengthening HSEQ team

Mag. iur. Kristine Bauska has been appointed as HSEQ Specialist. Kristine has a long working history in Telko with other tasks. From now on she is working...

Emil Lindholm with Team GRX’s Volkswagen in rally season 2019

Finnish Rally Championship runner up Emil Lindholm, 22, is competing with Marcus Grönholm’s Team GRX Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 with co-driver Mikael...

Aspo’s Telko Ltd has acquired business of Danish company H H plastkombi a/s

Telko Ltd and H H plastkombi a/s have signed on the 19th of November an agreement by which Telko Ltd will acquire whole business of H H plastkombi.

Telko Ltd moves to a new office

Dear Partner, Telko Ltd will move to new office to Espoo, Finland. As of 12.11.2018 Telko’s new addresses will be:

Lindholm secured Finnish Championship silver medal in SM1-group with second place finish

GRX-team Skoda driving Emil Lindholm and Mikael Korhonen secured Finnish Championship SM1-group’s silver medals after a good fight. Lindholm battled for...

Lindholm fought for second in Sastamala

Team GRX’s Skoda driver Emil Lindholm and Mikael Korhonen rose to second place in the standings with the best time of the Enset rally’s last special...

Telko Ltd has acquired the business of the Danish company Square Oil A/S

Telko Ltd has acquired the business of the Danish company Square Oil A/S. Square Oil is a service and distribution company dealing in lubricants, and its...

Telko investing in Green Products portfolio – Kimmo Liinamaa appointed as Business Development Manager

Kimmo Liinamaa, currently Sales Manager Plastics Finland, has been appointed as Business Development Manager Telko Plastics. Kimmo has worked for five...

Telko in Jukolan viesti orienteering relay

Telko is participating in Jukolan viesti orienteering relay this weekend 16. -17.6.2018 with an international team. Last year Telko´ s team was the 940th,...

Telko Poland has won two awards at PLASTPOL fair

We are happy to announce that Telko Poland has won two awards at PLASTPOL 2018, the biggest Plastic Fair in Central Europe held in Kielce 22nd – 25th May...

PLASTPOL - 22nd International Fair of Plastics and Rubber Processing

2018 PLASTPOL - Poland's most important event which enjoys global recognition The International Fair of Plastics and Rubber Processing PLASTPOL at Targi...

Telko´ s certificates and commitments

Telko´ s quality certificate has been renewed and updated to the 2015 standards. You can find all Telko´ s certificates and commitments from the...

Ralf Holmlund appointed as a member of the Telko board of directors

Starting from April 1, 2018, Ralf Holmlund, 63, M. Sc. (Econ.), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Telko Ltd, part of Aspo Group. Ralf...

Organizational announcement: Telko Director Juris Avotins relocating to Riga

Juris Avotins was appointed to Telko Russia Managing Director in the beginning of 2013. After five years successful assignment in Russia, Juris is...

Mongolia Mining 2018

Mongolia Mining 2018 International Mining & Oil Expo will be held for the 8th consecutive year on 4-6 April 2018 at Buyant Ukhaa Sports Palace,...

Organizational announcement

Svante Pahlman has been appointed as Business Manager for product line Polyurethane systems. Telko has agreed on representation of "green" polyurethane...

Telko´  s year of success  2017

Year 2017 was very successfull for Telko for many reasons. Telko´ s CEO Kalle Kettunen comments the record breaking year on the video and tells how this...

Emil Lindholm debutes at Arctic Lapland Rally with Skoda Fabia R5

Last season Emil Lindholm took second place in the Finnish National Rally Championship SM3 –class with Peugeot 208 R2 and by winning the Future Star 2018...

Telko at Interplastica 2018 in Moscow - come meet us in hall 1

Emil Lindholm, a young rally promise sponsored by Telko, starts the new season with a new car, Skoda Fabia R5

Telko sponsors a young Finnish rally driver promise Emil Lindholm whose performance in 2017 was very strong. Emil came second in the Finnish Rally...

New CFO in Telko

M.Sc (Econ.) Mr. Tomi Tanninen has been appointed to Telko CFO. Tomi will start in Telko in the beginning of September. Tomi has extensive experience of...

Telko improved its plastic product offering with GPPS and HIPS grades from Total Petrochemicals

Telko has improved its plastic product offering in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. We are now able to offer you GPPS and HIPS grades from Total...

Organizational announcements in Telko Sweden

Telko Lubricants Sweden has appointed Mr. Johan Karlsson to Sales Director Lubricants Sweden. Johan has earlier been working for Telko as a Sales Manager.

Telko to represent ENGEL in Baltic countries

From September 2015 Telko Ltd, part of Aspo Group, has represented ENGEL AUSTRIA in the Baltic countries. Telko sells ENGEL's injection moulding machines...

Telko Ukraine is the distributor of BASF SE for pigments, resins and additives

In March 2014 Telko Ukraine took over the distribution of BASF SE for pigments, resins, additives on the territory of Ukraine.

Telko Ukraine celebrates 10th anniversary

Established in 2004 Ukrainian office celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. During this period Telko Ukraine has assembled a highly professional team...

Telko took over the distribution of epoxy curing agents for the Nordic region

From July 1, 2013 Telko OY, Finland took over the distribution of epoxy curing agents from SRT Synthetic Resin Technologies GmbH for the Nordic region.

Telko expands to Chinese market

Telko, a distributor of industrial chemicals and plastics, has launched business operations in China. Telko is part of Aspo Group. The expansion to the...

New CEO for Telko Ltd

Kalle Kettunen (44), M.Sc., MBA, has been appointed new CEO of Telko Ltd, part of Aspo Group, from August 1, 2009. He will succeed Jari Ranne, who will...

New Telko Oy to start operations on January 1, 2009

Aspo Group is reorganizing its operations and focusing more clearly on developing its principal business operations. As part of the structural...