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Board members Antti Antero and Gustaf Westerlund travelled to meet Polón in Chukhloma, Kostroma Oblast, and during this trip, they made the decision to start manufacturing car tyres. However, this vision did not come to life until the 1930s. Image: Eduard Pólon, a busy visionary, was the Managing Director of the company until 1929.
Ulrik Wilhelm Eduard Polón (16 June 1861 – 30 September 1930) was a Finnish business leader and a political patriot during the country's years of oppression. Under his leadership, a rubber industry was launched in the country. He was the founder, CEO, chairman of the board and majority shareholder of Suomen Kumitehdas Oy or the Finnish Rubber Company. His group also designed and introduced ...
Gallen-Kallela planned a grand version of the Kalevala as his gift to the Finnish people, a gold- and silver-decorated volume with 700 parchment pages including 150 paintings. The leather covers would be adorned with Finnish stones and freshwater pearls. “All my life, though at first unaware of it, I have prepared for this task,” he wrote ...
He worked for a year and a half at the firm of Karlstads Mekaniska Verkstad at Kristinehamn in Sweden and then as machine-shop engineer and technical manager at the firm of Tampereen Pellava- ja Rautateollisuus until being invited to join Kumitehdas as the ageing Eduard Polón's second-in-command, soon becoming mananging director of the company.
Language Label Description Also known as; English: Edith Polón. Finnish writer
Jan 14, 2023 · Eduard Polón. January 14, 2023. Ulrik Wilhelm Eduard Polón (16 June 1861 – 30 September 1930) [1] was a Finnish business leader [2] and a political patriot during the country's years of oppression. [3] Under his leadership, a rubber industry was launched in the country. He was the founder, CEO, chairman of the board and majority shareholder ...
Aug 10, 2023 · The company was founded as a paper mill in 1865 by Fredrik Idestam, Leo Mechelin, and Eduard Polón. In the 1990s, Nokia executives decided to focus on communications and sell off the company’s diverse business units. The company enjoyed a period of success in the 1990s as an innovative visionary in the consumer cell phone market.
