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Woodworking industries
After reading this article you will..
- gain an understanding of the basics of the Finnish wood product industry’s business environment.
- be able to name its most important wood products and processed products.
Wood products
- Woodworking industries
- Strong wood from the Nordic coniferous forest zone
- Position and opportunities of wood construction in Finland
- Modern sawmilling enabling the sustainable future
- Rauma investment significant for entire sawmill industry
- A holistic approach to Corporate Responsibility: A case study
- Innovations will help fight the climate change with wood products
- Plywood
- Basic properties of plywood
- Special and processed plywood
- Technical properties of plywood
- Applications of plywood
- Plywood manufacturing process: from logs to veneers
- Plywood manufacturing process: the processing of veneers
- Plywood manufacturing process: from veneers to panels
- Further processing of plywood
- Machine vision applications in plywood processes
- Laminated veneer lumber, LVL
- Particleboard
- Other wood-based panels
- Sawn timber
- Basic properties of sawn timber
- Sawn timber grades
- Domestic and export markets for sawn timber
- Use of sawn timber in construction and interiors
- Other applications of sawn timber
- Further-processed timber
- Strength grading of sawn timber
- Manufacturing process of sawn timber – from logs to sawn goods
- By-products of the sawmill industry
Authors & references
Author:
Ritva Varis
References:
- Finnish Forest Industries. Statistics. Wood products and construction. [Online] Available form: https://www.forestindustries.fi/statistics/wood-products-and-construction/ [Accessed 6th October 2020].
- Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö. TEM Toimialapalvelu. Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön julkaisuja 37/2018. Toimialaraportit Puutuoteteollisuus. [In Finnish] [Online] Available from: https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/161135/Toimialaraportit%20-%20Puutuoteteollisuus.pdf [Accessed 6th October 2020].
- Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö. TEM Toimialapalvelu. Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön julkaisuja 2019:2. Toimialaraportit Huonekaluala. [In Finnish] [Online] Available from: https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/161291/TEM_2_2019_Toimialaraportti_Huonekaluala.pdf?sequence=8 [Accessed 6th October 2020].
- Varis, R. (editor), WOOD-BASED PANELS INDUSTRY, 276 P, ISBN 978-952-68627-8-1 (printed), ISBN 978-952-68627-9-8 (e-book), [Online] Available from: https://holvi.com/shop/puuteollisuuskirjat/section/webshop-in-english/ [Accessed 6th October].
- Varis, R. 2005. Finland’s oldest sawmill is the Kotka sawmill (Puumies magazine 2/2005: 12) and in the minds of the people, it remains the Norska sawmill (Puumies magazine 3/2005:7)
- Finnish Forest Industries, [Online] Available from: https://www.forestindustries.fi/statistics/ [Accessed 6th October 2020].
- Puuinfo Oy, Woodproducts.fi, [Online] Available from: https://www.woodproducts.fi/content/why-wood [Accessed 6th October 2020].
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This page has been updated 01.08.2022