Helping industries since 1962

Take a specialized process industry supplier. Add vision, passion and process expertise, and you’ll get Haarla – your expert partner with visionary, value-adding solutions. For more than six decades, Haarla has been serving vital industries to ensure we don’t run out of pure water, nutritious and delicious food or high-quality housing materials.

Having a solution brings peace of mind. But having plan B when you really, really need one is worth its weight in gold.

Let’s talk solutions

These days, everyone is offering solutions. But when something goes against the plan, the real problem solvers distinguish themselves from the rest. The process industry experience gained over the decades, the right connections, the supplier and transport partners that are willing to walk the extra mile when needed – these are things that bring real value. Things that save you money. Things that Haarla offers.

Let’s talk solutions

Six decades of building partnerships

1962

A man and his VW Beetle

Jarkko Haarla Sr. started out by seeing through papermill modernizations and improving their processes. From just a man and a VW Beetle, the operation grew to supplying industry with services and chemicals.

1970

Finland is no limit

Raised in USA, Jarkko Haarla Sr. had learned how to think big. As a company, Haarla has always been about international operations. Cooperation with Chemviron is one of the milestones of the decade.

1980

Time to diversify

Process industries have many similarities. Gradually, Haarla broadens its selection to include e.g. resins and products for engineered wood industry.

1990

New strengths

There is a difference between agency and a distribution company. Haarla finds new areas by starting to offer blending solutions for customer businesses.

2000

Food is a process

The decade gives room to a next generation, as Julius Haarla starts the fast-growing Food business team and Johannes Haarla becomes CEO. Haarla office in China.

2010

Bigger & global

New offices are sprouting in Tallinn and Sweden. Haarla grows also through mergers with Amtrade and Panchem. Julius Haarla becomes CEO.

2020

The solution providers

Starting its seventh decade, Haarla has established itself as a one-stop solution provider for many process industries. The problem-solving attitude became
particularly useful in times of COVID.