BASIC DETAILS

Applications for pine sawn timber

• High-quality glulams, log houses and the woodworking industry
• Planed goods, the manufacture of windows and doors as well as finger jointing
• Packaging industry
• Skirting boards
• Thermally modified timber

Share of exports: approximately 80%
Share of certified wood: 98%

HISTORY

1875 Merchant Afltan establishes the sawmill
1985 Metsäliitto acquires the sawmill
1999The name is changed to Finnforest Oy
2011 Automated log rounding
2012 Unified Metsä identity, the Wood Products Industry becomes Metsä Wood
2016Metsä Group's sawmills in Finland become part of Metsä Fibre
2018 Next generation X-ray equipment, modernisation of the debarking department, product camera and trimmer

Metsä Fibre
Kyrö sawmill
Jorma Nieminen, Mill Manager