World of timber
Learn more about sawn timber
We have published an e-learning course for our customers on the sawing process. It provides a closer look at the production of premium sawn timber and discusses the factors that affect quality. The course is available at the Metsä Learning Hub service, which also includes a course on sustainability. To gain access to the service, please get in touch with your contact person.
Supporting biodiversity
Metsä Group provides financial inputs and expertise to support development projects that substantially and effectively improve biodiversity and the state of water bodies in Finland. The measu res are part of the nature management programme conducted in 2021–2023. The projects are implemented outside commercial forests. They can be related to aquatic bird habitats and wetlands, watercourses, small water bodies and coastal environments, the living conditions of pollinators and new water protection methods. “I am pleased that we now have a programme that safeguards forest biodiversity. We will invest millions of euros in the project over a ten-year period, without profit targets,” says Katja Tuomola , Vice President, Sustainability Management at Metsä Group. The protection of rich forest groves is another way to safeguard the biodiversity of the forest environment. These groves account for only 1 to 2 per cent of forest land area in Finland, but they are home to about 45 per cent of endangered forest species. “The nutrient-rich soil of forest groves offers good conditions for abundant flora, which in turn provides nutrition for insects. This is why we want to see nature management in these areas instead of timber cultivation.” From 2022 onwards, Metsä Group will inspect the forest groves of its owner-members and provide guidance for their management.
AI supports wood supply An application developed and implemented by Metsä Group applies artificial intelligence to Finland’s versa- tile open spatial datasets, to estimate growing stock data. Thanks to the application, reliable assessments of growing stock and felling site data can be made for wood trade purposes, even without a forest visit. “The application defines the site’s growing stock data such as the percentage of log wood, sturdiness per tree species, quality and diameter distribution. We complement public spatial datasets with our own ma- terial such as measurement data from our harvesters and data collected from the log-measuring devices at our sawmills,” says Olli Leino , Director, Digitalisation, Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services.
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