Timber customer magazine 2022/2023

Rauma sawmill

Rauma sawmill in figures

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24/7 Uninterrupted process The sawmill will run 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

250 Sawline speed

40 Logs per minute The sawline’s processing speed is three times faster than a conventional sawline.

1 s Speed of sawing one log A pine log is sawn in just over a second.

m/ min

The processing and sawing speed of the 110-metre sawline is up to 250 metres per minute.

750 Annual production The sawmill produces around

200 Value of the investment Metsä Fibre has invested EUR 200 million in the sawmill. This is the largest sawmill investment in Finland ever.

70 % Ratio of Finnish-origin equipment The vast majority of the sawmill’s equipment purchases, around 70%, were ordered from Finnish partners.

500 Jobs The sawmill employs around 100 people directly and about 500 more across its direct value chain.

000 m 3

million EUR

750,000 cubic metres of sawn pine timber per year. A total of 1.5 million cubic metres of logs will be used.

Main partners in the Rauma sawmill project

Heinolan Sahakoneet Oy Equipment for the kiln drying department with automatic load transfer

Nordautomation Oy Log sorting, the sawmill’s feed and bark processing equipment

C. Gunnarssons Verkstads AB Dry sorting and packaging equipment

Renholmen AB Green sorting lines and sticking and stacking lines

Veisto Oy High-speed sawline

Microtec Espoo Grading systems and software for the green and dry sorting units

Raumaster Paper Oy Organisation and load forming conveyors for sawn timber packages and an automatic loading system

Finnos Oy Log and sawing process

Raumaster Oy By-product conveyors and screening

Valon Kone Oy Debarkers

measurement systems and the production simulation system

Econia Expert services in the field of contractor liability and combat- ing the grey economy

Skanska Construction engineering work

Pinja Production control system

Roima Intelligence Oy Central control room

LM-Suomiset Oy Field construction work

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