A Historic Major Investment: Makita's New Office and Warehouse Building Received Its Cornerstone

This week in Saue Parish at Gate Tallinna industrial park, power tool manufacturer Makita laid the cornerstone for its new office and warehouse building, which represents the Japanese company's largest investment in the Northern and Baltic region. YIT Estonia is constructing the 24-million-euro A-energy class building.

The two-story building with approximately 25,000 square meters of net floor space will allow Makita, which previously rented storage space at various locations, to consolidate all its operations in one location.

"Thanks to significantly larger warehouse space, we can offer fast delivery of goods to resellers and provide professional support to end users in spacious repair and maintenance center facilities," said Seiji Tanizawa, CEO of Makita OY Estonia branch, expressing satisfaction with the innovations.

According to him, the new building will house, in addition to office space and warehouse, a showroom encompassing the entire product portfolio and a training center where, as an important innovation, Makita tools will be trained to end users in addition to resellers. The building will have test rooms for testing concrete, wood and metal tools, and an outdoor test area will be built where garden tools can be tested.

The cornerstone laying ceremony was attended by Makita OY Estonia sales director Imre Rammul, Makita Corporation Europe head Hiroshi Tsujimura, Japanese Ambassador Yukihiko Matsumura, Saue Parish Governor Andres Laisk, YIT Estonia board member Margus Põim, and Priit Kõrgesaar, representative of Tallmac Tehnika, Makita's longest-serving reseller.

According to Reimo Ehrstein, building constructor and head of YIT Estonia's construction division, Makita's new office and warehouse building is a large-scale project offering several novel experiences. The construction of the building will require approximately 10,000 cubic meters of concrete, nearly 500 tons or more than 20 truckloads of steel structures, and approximately 2,800 piles with a combined length of 19 kilometers.

In his assessment, Makita deserves great recognition as an ambitious client for investing, in addition to achieving the best functionality and convenient planning of the building, also in the smallest possible environmental footprint.

"Over 2,000 solar panels with a total capacity of 1,000 kW will be installed on the roof and property of the A-energy class building. According to current data, this covers the entire building's energy consumption, and excess power will be directed to the electricity grid to supply green energy to other companies operating at Gate Tallinn," said Ehrstein.

Construction work began in January 2022 and the project is expected to be completed in April 2023.