The purpose of this thesis was to find possible development options for roll and sootblower maintenance services in an industrial maintenance company. In addi-tion company wanted to know the size of the maintenance market in both of these services and what services it should offer to markets. Research method of this work was case-study and research approach was mainly analytical but it also had some features of constructive approach. This thesis consists of theoretical literature review and empirical case-study. Theoretical part of this thesis included theories about strategic planning of maintenance, service production, customer value, profitability and methods to analyze company’s current environment. Strategic maintenance elements, service concept and aspects of customer value were found to plan and develop maintenance services. The result of the empirical part of this thesis was that problems in roll maintenance were narrowed down to organization of mainte-nance services and in sootblower maintenance services problems were narrowed down to maintenance methods. Based on this scope four development options were formed which of all turned out to be profitable. Market size for roll and maintenance services in Eastern Finland was determined and recommendations of services, which company should offer to these markets, were given.
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