For a company aiming to reduce its clients’ environmental impact through technology, it would be hypocritical to give mass-produced trinkets as corporate gifts. Salla Axelin, the entrepreneur behind Sallan Paja, repurposed our old exhibition walls into pouches. These pouches contain a holiday present for some of our clients and can be reused in their everyday lives.
At trade shows, companies do everything they can to ensure that customers can easily find them. “An easy way for us to showcase our brand is by hanging fabric that aligns with our branding on the walls—but the size of the walls varies from one trade show to another, so we end up with a new, oversized wall hanging after each event,” says Jessica Säilä, Head of Marketing at Turck Vilant Systems. “When Salla Axelin told me about her idea to repurpose the sheets into pouches, I knew right away that this was the perfect business gift for us.”
Our company provides RFID tracking systems designed to prevent errors and report in real-time the location of an item or shipment. “In practice, we solve the everyday problems of industrial companies that arise from human errors, such as when a pallet is loaded onto the wrong vehicle and ends up in Rovaniemi instead of Vaasa,” says the company’s MD, Heikki Haavisto.
“The idea of reducing waste is ingrained in our company’s DNA, so cheap corporate gifts ordered from overseas don’t align with our values. In contrast, repurposing exhibition walls fits our story perfectly. We’ve received particularly positive feedback from Sweden, where customers are very interested in environmental and circular economy themes. Several clients have even asked us to include an environmental calculation in our ROI calculations,” Haavisto continues.
Press contact
Jessica Säilä
Head of Marketing
Tel.: +358 40 537 8360
jessica.saila@turckvilant.com
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Salla Axelin of Sallan Paja demonstrating the use of the pouch.
Turck Vilant Systems
We enable Digital Supply Chains with the help of intelligent RFID- and RTLS- tracking solutions.
We deliver our customer projects on a turnkey basis, from system design to project delivery worldwide. Our company was founded in 2002, making us one of the pioneers in our field in Europe. This enables manufacturing companies, central warehouses, wholesalers, logistics service providers, and public sector representatives—including healthcare organizations and public transportation providers—to monitor their material flows, equipment, and operations effectively.
Sallan Paja
Sallan Paja is a business run by a woman who loves working with her hands, creating both corporate gifts and home goods in small production batches.
Our approach to sustainability and this project
At Turck Vilant System we SOLVE EVERYDAY INEFFICIENCIES that help our customers to REDUCE WASTE in the form of
TIME ⏲Eliminating wasted time spent searching for materials or correcting errors.
MONEY 💰 Cutting expenses related to material overstocking and error correction.
MATERIALS 🪛 Minimizing overuse and optimizing inventory management.
PRODUCING EXCESS ♺ Preventing surplus production with accurate forecasting.
DRIVING EXTRA MILES 🚛 Reducing shipment errors to avoid unnecessary backand-forth deliveries.
To live by our values, we avoid burdening the environment with unnecessary products. This pouch is recycled, made from outdated exhibition wall sheets we no longer use. A local entrepreneur repurposed the material, giving it new life. We hope that is something you too appreciate.
