Velcron is a family-owned company in Finland. Our products have been used in the marine industry for over 50 years. Teuvo Nissi started manufacturing the first injection molded products in the early 1970s in Helsinki with his self-made molds which were used by his brothers’, Eero and Väinö Nissi, company Fibå-Vene (Finnsport).
Jukka Manninen founded Velcron Oy in 1994 and started co-operation with Teuvo Nissis’ company TenisFin.
TenisFin merged to Velcron in 2009. Today our company exports to over 10 countries.
All our products are manufactured in Finland. We keep all our products in stock which makes us fast and flexible with deliveries.
Our products are designed to meet the real world needs whether they are universal or specialized, while always listening to our clienteles’ opinions from both the industry and the retail side. We can customize the colors of all our products according to customer needs whether it’s applied on just one product or a full range of them.
Responsibility is a key factor in our operations. Environmental friendliness is considered throughout the whole life cycle of our products. All our components are developed with responsibility in mind.
The product design and raw material choices are made with the durability and optimal lifetime of the components in mind. We aim to optimizing our products weight to minimize the fuel consumption both on freight and the end user. We use the best possible raw materials to ensure the quality and the durability even in the most challenging conditions. Our products are UV-stabilized and have a five-year guarantee.
95% of our production is recyclable.
99% of the packaging material we use is made of recyclable cardboard of which 50% are re-used boxes and 50% are new boxes from recycled cardboard. We do not use any unnecessary materials in the retail packaging.
We optimize the incoming and outgoing transport of goods so that they cause as little emissions as possible.
We changed to renewable energy for heating in 2005 (oil consumption lowered to 10,000 l/year).
In 2011 we changed our electric supplier to hydroelectric power from Helen.
In 2019 we acquired a 3,3Kwh solar panel system, it supplies one third of our electricity consumption for the assembly and office premises.
