Oy Tampella Ab was a Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging.

Tampereen Pellava- ja Rautateollisuus Oy was a company based on the merger in 1861 of two factories - a linen mill and foundry - situated by the Tammerkoski rapids.

After a modest start, it grew to become an institution employing thousands of people in the centre of Tampere alone, and more at its other units.

The industrial activity, under the new ownership, in the centre of Tampere gradually ceased and the machines finally stopped operating in 2000.

Soon after this, many of the buildings in the industrial complex have been taken into new uses as museums, cultural centres, artist's workshops etc.