On Friday, 14 November 2025, Merinova launched its new Morning Coffee Guest concept, designed to highlight local actors, companies, and experts through relaxed, insightful conversation. Merinova invites professionals to its breakfast table whose perspectives, experiences, and everyday insights offer valuable understanding of the region’s vitality and the development of its industries.
Our first guest was Timo Hanhimäki (Director, Digitalization) from Prevas Oy. Timo brought with him extensive experience in automation, industrial projects, and advancing digitalization—showing just how central these themes are to the future of industry.
Prevas Oy
Prevas Oy is a proactive and innovative engineering company that helps industrial businesses succeed by providing expert services in product development, plant design, process design, automation, and technical computation. At the core of Prevas’s mission is solving industrial challenges holistically: the company takes full responsibility for its projects and delivers them with quality, proper documentation, and as agreed.
Prevas combines technical expertise with ideation and creativity to solve problems efficiently while supporting its customers’ business operations. The company’s goal is to provide solutions that make industrial processes more functional, sustainable, and competitive. Personnel are Prevas’s most important asset, and their skills are continuously developed through the in-house Academy training program and demanding project work. This enables the use of the latest technologies and sustainable solutions in customer projects.
Around the Coffee Table
The morning discussion spanned industrial digitalization and future outlooks. Topics included
🔹 how digitalization is visible in today’s industry
🔹 the role automation and cloud services already play
🔹 how developments in robotics and AI are opening new opportunities
🔹 what kind of expertise future Vaasa and its industrial areas will require
Timo has a long background in automation and industrial systems. His examples clearly illustrated how much the field has changed, how it has not changed and where it is heading. This also sparked discussion about the skills the future workforce will need in the region, and how collaboration between companies could be further strengthened.
A warm thank you to Timo for an inspiring and thought-provoking morning coffee!