KATAJA
INNOVATIONS
design agency
We specialise in product design and product development. We bring together multidisciplinary expertise under one roof: industrial design, visualisation and engineering services.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
From idea to product. We offer everything you need for a product development project from a single office: taking an idea and developing it into a market-ready product on a turnkey basis.
We offer our services either as a comprehensive package or on an individual basis; each project is tailored to your specific needs.
Product develoment
Comprehensive product development. Our product development services are tailored to meet the client’s needs and are always based on the client’s requirements. We also, of course, offer design services for precisely defined areas and details, such as mechanical design, concept development or user testing. Research, development and innovation represent product development at its best.
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical design can involve an improvement project for an existing product, or the design of an entirely new product, component, product part or even an entire product family. In mechanical design, a product idea or concept is developed into a product suitable for industrial manufacture. Mechanical design involves selecting the product’s structure and materials, amongst other things, and resolving manufacturability challenges to ensure the product meets its functional objectives.
Industrial design
Product development always begins with industrial design, in the broadest sense of the term. Industrial design involves brainstorming, concept development, visualisation and product design – or all of these combined. Good industrial design always takes into account the usability of products and services and a customer-centred approach. In our projects, it is essential that industrial design and mechanical design go hand in hand, ensuring that both areas are considered simultaneously.
Visualizations
Visualizations and 3D models. We produce visualisations for a range of purposes and in various styles, in line with the client’s requirements. Visualisations may include, for example, image editing, product visualisations, 3D modelling or combinations of these. We use various 3D modelling programmes and image editing software to produce these visualisations.
Productisation
From idea to product. We help you develop your product idea into a commercially viable product. You can start with just an idea, or a product that is already on the market. We review every stage of the value chain and develop your product so that it is ready for production and meets customer needs.
Funding
Support for product development. Various forms of public funding are available for product development, product development projects, prototyping and, for example, innovation activities. Funding helps get projects off the ground and gives development projects a boost. Find out more about funding from organisations such as Business Finland and ELY Centres; many funding schemes are suitable for designing new products, innovation, prototype building and product development!
WE SOLVE PROBLEMS AND CREATE NEW IDEAS
Whether your challenge is big or small, we’ll help you find the right solutions
ESTABLISHED
PERSONS IN OUR TEAM
PROJECTS
YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE
STRONG EXPERTISE
Our shared history of working on product development projects has reinforced our belief in the power of a multidisciplinary team. We are neither a traditional engineering firm nor a design agency; rather, we have brought together the best aspects of both.
Each team member’s areas of expertise complement one another, enabling us to manage the entire process. Our collaboration has evolved during projects and it has become even more efficient and seamless.
Work
A few examples of our previous projects.
partners and customers
Over the years, we have carried out many interesting and innovative projects – thank you to our customers and partners for these!
“Working with Kataja Innovations was a pleasant and beneficial experience. With the tight deadline, the designer’s professionalism really shone through. Their ability and willingness to understand the client, combined with their constructive feedback and creative ideas, produced a commendable end result.”
“Working with Kataja Innovations Oy is straightforward, and their quick response to situations helps us stay on schedule. When it comes to designing the visual identity, Kataja’s ability to rapidly produce a range of high-quality options to choose from makes decision-making much easier. During the user testing phase, the well-designed and well-executed tests helped us identify many details that we would otherwise never have thought of.”
“One key objective of this project was to design products for mass production that would nevertheless look as though they had been handcrafted by the trolls of Satumetsä. The new products also had to fit in with the existing range. Susanna exceeded our expectations in this conceptualisation work. Our customers around the world were also delighted with the products’ design and versatility: we received our first enquiry within an hour of launching the products internally to our sales network.”
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