Rauma sawmill
Automatic loading of sawn timber for transport
The Rauma sawmill was built on an area of about 20 hectares. For a sawmill of its type, it will be compact, because there is no need for a separate power plant or sawn timber storage facilities. Logistics form a seamless chain from the sawmill to customers via the Port of Rauma, just three kilometres away. Rauma is Finland’s third largest container port and the largest paper export port. Construction of the new sawmill required no changes to public infrastructure; the road and rail infrastructure in the mill area will continue to function as it is. Transport was reorganised only within the area of the integrated mill itself.
Automatic loading at Metsä Fibre’s Rauma sawmill is a first for the sawmill industry. Conventional forklift loading will become obsolete when finished packages of sawn timber passing through packing and dispatch- ing are transferred to lorries automatically. The equipment and system supplier for the new loading concept is Finnish Raumaster Paper, which has long experience of providing solu- tions for the sawmill and pulp industry. The loading process starts when the finished bundles of sawn timber come from the packing unit and land on a 20-metre roller conveyor line. Conveyors move the packages towards a chain conveyor line, which takes them close to the loading station. At the loading station, the packages are sorted on the conveyors so that they are ready for loading and guided forward by loading bars, of which the Rauma sawmill has fourteen. The lorry waits for the packages at its designated loading point, and the packages are then loaded under the supervision of the driver. The consignment notes are automatically sent through the system to the customer, the port, and the transport company.
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