Dear Reader,
To begin, I would like to thank everyone in our ecosystem for an excellent year in 2025. Over the years, many have observed that the market adoption of deep-tech companies often takes longer than expected before sufficient trust is established in a new technology’s ability to create value. Next year, Altum will celebrate its 10th anniversary, and we can now confidently and happily state that the market has finally reached a level of maturity where our customers are no longer making one-off investments but are instead expanding their Altum deployments. As a result, the use of Altum’s solutions is broadening across leading global enterprises.
This development is clearly reflected in our financial performance: at the group level, our revenue will more than double, and in North America it will more than triple. Our growth outlook for 2026 is excellent, and our order book is already full with deliveries scheduled for early in the year.
I am particularly pleased to see that sustainability values are translating into tangible benefits across all our segments. Our technology’s ability to generate environmental value alongside financial returns has proven to be a significant strength. The energy, chemical, and water savings our customers achieve by using Altum’s solutions are substantial, providing further momentum to our growth. In addition, by eliminating process bottlenecks and increasing overall output and productivity, our customers have realized cost savings measured in millions. Over the past year, we have worked increasingly closely with our customers to verify these benefits, and we intend to invest even more in this area going forward. It is highly rewarding to see the powerful multiplier effects that keeping a single critical process component clean can have on the performance and productivity of an entire plant—not to mention the resulting reduction in emissions.
The value-creating potential of ultrasound technology has also gained the attention of major global technology companies. During this year, several small and medium-sized ultrasound companies have been acquired by larger players. This trend is easy to understand when considering both the virtually limitless application potential of the technology and the growing maturity of the market. Although ultrasound has been recognized for its value-creation capabilities for nearly a century, only in recent years have advances in information technology and AI enabled the development of cost-efficient, self-learning models. These solutions can now address a wide range of industrial challenges at scale. The opportunity extends far beyond cleaning technologies—which alone represent a market worth hundreds of billions—into improving the productivity of various chemical processes. At its best, ultrasound enables entirely new applications, including those that improve the cost efficiency and environmental performance of data centres. Both organic and inorganic fouling in cooling systems is a rapidly growing global challenge, and Altum offers environmentally friendly solutions to support both energy and data centre customers.
As the market has evolved, we have also invested heavily in our technology in close collaboration with major partner organizations. I am pleased to share that after several years of design and testing, we will begin delivering IECEx (ATEX) certified systems to our customers next year. This marks our entry into an entirely new market, enabling us to address challenges in the chemicals, oil, and gas (COG) segment. These challenges extend well beyond fouling: ultrasound-driven sonochemical reactions also offer significant performance benefits. While helping our customers improve production efficiency, we also support meaningful reductions in emissions. The global carbon footprint of this segment exceeds 10%, meaning that even small efficiency improvements can translate into substantial environmental gains. To better serve this market, we established a subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates in December.
In addition to our expansion into the UAE, we have successfully supported customers this year in markets such as India and Uruguay. From the very beginning, Altum’s strategy has been to build a world-class brand as a provider of software-controlled high-power ultrasound solutions. We are proud that, despite challenging years in the past, we have remained true to our vision. We are now ready to bring cutting-edge technology from Finland to markets around the world where there is a strong demand to improve industrial processes through environmental technology. Our impact is set to grow exponentially during the company’s second decade, as the scale and ambition of customer needs currently on our drawing boards are immense.
I wish all our readers a peaceful holiday season and hope that an outstanding year 2026 lies ahead for you as well.
Matias Tainela, CEO of Altum Technologies
