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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
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  • Log procurement
    • Log procurement in general
    • Cross cutting
    • Raw material for pulp mills
    • Raw material logistic from the forest to factories
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Maintenance
    • Organizing maintenance
    • Electrical and mechanical maintenance
    • Condition monitoring
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  • Occupational safety at the sawmill
    • Safety in the sawmill industry
    • Fire safety at sawmills
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Future challenges
    • Future of forest industries
    • The sawmilling industry’s latest development
    • Need for knowledge in sawmill industry
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  • Future vision
    • Future and structural changes of forest industries
    • Product development
    • Market outlook for sawn timber
    • Positive vision
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Videos

This page contains all the videos on the site.

Timber sorting on the sawmill

Log measurement

(Length 1:50)

Barking

Video of VK Debarker-animation. (Length 3:44)
Video of VK Combi Debarker-animation. (Length 5:29)
Animation of Air-Seal rotor debarked. (Length: 14:23)

Sawline equipment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i-QUu7fZyk
An animation about Heinola Sawmill Machinery’s 250-400 chipper/canter – circular saw line. The first unit in the sawline is the log rotating unit, followed by chipper canter and profiling unit. After the circular saw the cant is turned 90 degrees ja it goes to another chipper canter followed by a profiling unit. The splitting saw has 6 settable blades and an additional 6 blades. (Duration 3:19)
A video from Keitele Timber’s Kemijärvi sawmill, where the sawing machine is HewSaw R200 1.1. V1. The video shows the sawing process from log sorting to sawn timber. Sawsets and the sawing machinery action is shown as an animation. (Duration 5:35)
An animation by Heinola Sawmill Machinery showing the roundabout sawline, where the main machine is a band saw (Duration 4:34)
Video published by Veisto showing the Metsä Wood Vilppula sawing process with a HewSaw SL250 3.4 (Duration 5:20)

Dimension sorting plants

Video shows an animation about a green sorting plant. This plant has horizontal bins and at the end of it there is a sticker stacker machine. In the beginning of the line the is a quality grading system based on automated camera grading. In the lay-out is also used curved conveyors. (Duration 2:32)

Types of kiln

This video highlights the principles of chamber kilning. The chamber is filled with goods from the sticker stacker machine with a forklift. Arrows depict the air direction. The progress in the kilning and the difference between dry and wet temperatures are shown on the top corner of the picture. (Duration: 1:21)

Fuels and combustion technology

This video shows how the patented Biograde combustion technology work in a power plant. 
 (Duration 2:37)

Energy efficiency and environmental impacts

The animation shows the process of a bioenergy plant from the arrival of fuel via combustion to combustion gas cleansing. (Duration 1:38)

SahaTrainee videos

SahaTrainee 2019 (12 lectures)

Link to the SahaTrainee 2019 YouTube-channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHclk0bOBskQn9Tg4GPK9NN1JJZCIHY4d

YouTube playlist, 12 videos.

SahaTrainee 2018 (9 lectures)

Link to the SahaTrainee 2018 YouTube-channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHclk0bOBskSpHa88eVkBeke2no4qWGEd

YouTube playlist, 9 videos.

Wood-based panels -seminar (2 lectures)

Link to the Wood-based panels -seminar’s YouTube-channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHclk0bOBskTcx9ijvtHyr3RY9hYqahMB

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