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  • Wood as a raw material
    • Forest resources in general
    • Wood species and their characteristics
    • Raw material procurement
    • Quality of sawn log
    • Sawmills’ by-products as a raw material
    • Test your skills
  • Log procurement
    • Log procurement in general
    • Cross cutting
    • Raw material for pulp mills
    • Raw material logistic from the forest to factories
    • Test your skills
  • Sawn timber manufacturing
    • Mill’s production planning
    • Log sorting and measuring
    • Debarking
    • The sawing process
    • Blade technology
    • Dimension sorting
    • Stick-stacking and drying
    • Heating plants
    • Timber grading after kilning
    • Packaging, storage and marking of sawn timber
    • Sawmill process automation
    • Sawline measurements
    • Quality grading systems at the sawmill
  • Quality grading and strength grading
    • Difference between quality and strength grading
    • Visual grading of sawn timber
    • Sawn timber grades
    • Definitions and measuring methods to assess the sawn timber grade
    • Photographic examples of sawn timber features and qualities
    • Strength grading for structural timber
    • Test your skills
  • Quality control and certification
    • Differences between internal and external quality control
    • What does certification mean?
    • Internal quality control at the sawmill
    • Test screening of chips, defining the volume and grade
    • Test your skills
  • Maintenance
    • Organizing maintenance
    • Electrical and mechanical maintenance
    • Condition monitoring
    • Test your skills
  • Occupational safety at the sawmill
    • Safety in the sawmill industry
    • Fire safety at sawmills
    • Test your skills
  • Marketing and sales
    • Marketing and sales concepts
    • Sales channels
    • End uses for sawn goods
    • Differences between the customers in Finland
    • Differences between other markets
    • How to plan sales and production?
    • Sawn timber logistics
    • Main parameters for business
    • Sales and marketing argumentation
    • Test your skills
  • Using information systems
    • How to exploit information systems in sawmill industry?
    • Data usage in wood procurement, production and sales
    • Process control systems as a part of information systems
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  • Further processed timber
    • Further processed goods – production and sales
    • Planed goods
    • FInger jointing
    • Glulam beams, I Beams and other applications
    • CLT and glulam boards
    • Thermally modified timber
    • Impregnated timber
    • Test your skills
  • The role of sawmilling in the shaping of modern Finland
    • Sawmill industry in Finland in the 17th and 18th centuries
    • Sawmill industry at 18th century
    • Impacts to the development of Finnish society
  • Sawmill industry today
    • Structure of sawmilling
    • Sawn timber – ecological material
    • Forest ownership
    • The utilization of wood
    • The sawmilling industry as an energy producer
    • Sawmills in the national economy
    • Exports of sawn timber and the domestic markets
    • Turnover and costs
    • Test your skills
  • Future challenges
    • Future of forest industries
    • The sawmilling industry’s latest development
    • Need for knowledge in sawmill industry
    • Test your skills
  • Future vision
    • Future and structural changes of forest industries
    • Product development
    • Market outlook for sawn timber
    • Positive vision
    • Test your skills
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  • Sawmill industry today

    Finnish sawmill industry uses an ecological raw material and Finland has sufficient amounts of … Lue lisää

    Sawmill industry today

Mill’s production planning

Production planning is one of the key factors in sawmilling business. It seeks to solve all the … Lue lisää

Stick-stacking and drying

Timber should be dried as soon as possible after sawing. Before drying they are moved on for … Lue lisää

Marketing and sales

Sawn timber is one of the most important export goods in Finland. Alongside of exports, the domestic … Lue lisää

Occupational safety at the sawmill

The identification and elimination of hazards are important factors for occupational safety as well … Lue lisää

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