Brief History In 1965 Dr. Jaakko Hildenkari asked the Finish architect Matti Suuronen to design a sky cabin. Ploykem Ltd. of Helsinki, Finland was granted production of the final design, with the first one coming out in March 1968. It wasn’t until the third one was showing in London, (October 1968) when they come up with the name Futuro. There were only 20 produced in Finland between 1968 - 1978 1965 Dr. Jaakko Hiidenkari asked Matti Suuronen to design a ski cabin Contract for production awarded to Polykem Ltd of Helsinki, Finland 1968 March  First one produced #(000) @ plant in Hiekkaharju, Finland 1968 October  #(002) Shown in London, England.   Given the name Futuro. 1969    Polykem Ltd started Casa Finlandia series 1969    Futuro Corporation (USA) H. Leonard Fruchter Pres. 1970    Futuro Fiberglass Homes Ltd (Canada) A. Richard (Dick) Shain Pres. 1971 October 20 Futuro stamp - 3,000,000,000 issued in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Plastics Industry 1972  Futuro Corporation merged with Casa2 Corporation 1974  Futuro Corporation/Casa2 90 percent of marketing to Venturo 1975 December  Futuro Fiberglass Homes Ltd 1st prototype (chocolate brown in color) 1968 – 1978  Total of 20 manufactured in Finland, 12 to foreign buyers 1998 November 23 The movie FUTURO – A New Stance for Tomorrow premiers in Helsinki, Finland. Finish Museum of Archttecture small exhibition 30 year annivesary 1998 December 6  International premier of movie 2002  The book FUTURO – Tomorrow’s House from Yesterday comes out 2004 January 22 Futuro-House.net is born     Between 1969 - 1973 manufacturing rites were sold to approximately 25 countries but only about 10 countries launched production. Futuro Corporation, later Casa2, H. Leonard Frucher pres., was founded in the US in 1969 and ran production, at least to some degree, thru 1974. They also retained the rites to Central America, The Caribbean and, Israel. Futuro Fiberglass Homes Ltd, A. Richard (Dick) Shain pres., was founded in Canada in 1970, though did not see production until 1976 and ran thru 1979. Futuro Enterprises Ltd, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Futuro Homes (NZ) Ltd Christchurch, New Zealand and pacific region Production figures are not known at this time. The goal of this site is to find and document the remaining fleet. For a more in depth history lesson go toooooooo  DESURA   Publisher's website, complete 1st chapter of the book Futuro Tomorrow's House from Yesterday    A must read, including the footnotes!!