Swedish defense technology company Flexotrap and Finnish defense lifecycle specialist Millog have entered into a partnership to bring Flexotrap’s modular bullet trap systems to a wider Nordic and Baltic market. Behind the agreement is also a story about the importance of creating the right connections – and what can happen when companies with complementary capabilities meet at the right time.
Under the new agreement, Millog will become a distributor of Flexotrap’s modular bullet trap systems in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The companies will also cooperate on installation, service, maintenance, and lifecycle management across the Nordic and Baltic region.
The partnership combines Flexotrap’s specialized product and systems expertise with Millog’s established regional sales organization and capabilities in installation, maintenance and long-term lifecycle support.
For Flexotrap, the agreement provides a stronger structure for reaching customers and supporting its systems throughout their operational lifetime. For Millog, the partnership adds a flexible solution for customers facing a growing need for modern shooting and training infrastructure.
Meeting a growing need for training infrastructure
Shooting ranges are an important part of maintaining proficiency among military personnel, law enforcement, reservists and civilian shooters – and, more broadly, of strengthening societal preparedness and total defense. At the same time, the number of civilian shooting ranges has declined significantly in both Sweden and Finland. With a changed security environment and growing training requirements, the need to protect existing capacity and develop new and modern facilities has received increasing attention.
Flexotrap’s modular systems are designed for permanent, temporary and deployable shooting environments, both indoors and outdoors. Their modular construction makes it possible to expand or adapt facilities as requirements change, while collecting projectile material and lead residues at the point of impact.
The company also offers self-supporting, container-based shooting facilities, allowing shooting capacity to be established without earth berms or extensive groundwork.
For customers, however, the technology itself is only one part of the equation.
Across the Nordic and Baltic region, organizations are looking for solutions that can support growing shooting range and training requirements while meeting increasingly stringent environmental and safety standards. Meeting that demand requires more than delivering systems, it also requires a strong, customer-focused structure for installation, maintenance and long-term support,” says Elias Mibesjö, CEO of Flexotrap.
This is where the two companies’ capabilities complement each other. Millog is a strategic partner of the Finnish Defence Forces with extensive experience in maintenance, logistics and lifecycle management of technical systems.
Flexotrap solutions provide law enforcement, military and civilian users with new opportunities to increase shooting range capacity and expand training facilities safely and cost-effectively,” says Toni Piispa, Vice President of Millog’s Authorities and Industry Business Unit.
A partnership that started with a meeting
The agreement did not begin around a negotiating table.
Flexotrap and Millog first came into contact during a company trip to Finland organised by DEFINE in collaboration with Amyna, Ideon Science Park. The parties met again at Defense Day [Försvarsdagen], organised by Amyna, Ideon Science Park.
Those encounters gave the companies an opportunity to understand each other’s capabilities, continue the conversation and identify a potential fit between Flexotrap’s technology and Millog’s regional reach and lifecycle expertise. That connection has now developed into a concrete commercial and operational partnership spanning six markets.
Why Amyna exists
For Amyna, it is a good example of why building an effective defense innovation ecosystem is more than supporting the development of new technology. It is also about creating the conditions for the right actors to find each other.
Behind Amyna is a team that knows how to bring the right people together around the right priorities. They introduced us to Millog and helped accelerate the journey from a first meeting to a concrete partnership across six Nordic and Baltic markets. We are proud to lead the way and demonstrate how Lund’s defence innovation ecosystem, through the work of Amyna and Ideon Science Park, creates tangible results.”
By bringing startups, scaleups, established industry, defence organisations, public actors and other parts of the ecosystem together, AMYNA creates places where relevant conversations can begin – and where promising ones can continue.
