UPM Korkeakoski Sawmill Can Be Sold Either As PEFC™ Or FSC® Certified
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UPM Timber in brief UPM Timber is a significant Nordic sawn timber producer. INSTRUCTIONS for visitors Our four sawmills in Finland have annual capacity of 1.5 M cubic meters of redwood and whitewood sawn timber. UPM Timber employs around 410 people and is headquarter in At the site, stay with your host Tampere. WELCOME TO UPM Korkeakoski In our standard and special sawn timber products we use Use protective equipment provided to you certified raw material and latest sawmilling techniques to sawmill produce high quality sawn timber that fulfills customer In an emergency situations follow orders requirements. Our main customer industries are joinery, given by your host packaging, distribution and construction. www.upmtimber.com Permission is needed for photographing Smoking is not allowed Certificates Camera surveillance on the site EN 14081 PEFC/02-34-05 Promoting Sustainable Forest Management www.pefc.org All sawn timber produced by UPM Korkeakoski sawmill can be sold either as PEFC™ or FSC® certified. Korkeakoski mill area UPM Korkeakoski sawmill UPM Koskeakoski sawmill is located in Central Finland Sahantie 10, PO Box 25 wood purchasing area together with UPM Jokilaakso FIN-35501 Korkeakoski, Finland papermills and Jyväskylä plywood mill. The mill site covers in Tel. +358 20 414 149 E-mail: [email protected] total about 33 hectares. Korkeakoski sawmill is in the middle of high quality pine forests in Juupajoki. www.upmtimber.com 07/2016 UPM – The Biofore Company UPM Korkeakoski sawmill Through the renewing of the bio and forest industries, Korkeakoski sawmill produces redwood sawn timber from UPM is building a sustainable future across six business certified Nordic pine. The annual production capacity of areas: UPM Biorefining, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, Korkeakoski sawmill is 330,000 m3 of sawn timber. More UPM Paper Asia, UPM Paper Europe and North America than two thirds of the production volume is exported. The and UPM Plywood. Our products are made of renewable main export markets are United Kingdom, Middle East and raw materials and are recyclable. North African countries. UPM Korkeakoski sawmill We serve our customers worldwide. The group employs As raw material Korkeakoski sawmill uses 100% domestic around 20,000 people and its annual sales are pine purchased mainly from the nearby area forests. UPM in brief approximately EUR 10 billion. UPM shares are listed on is committed to sustainable forest management and forestry NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. methods based on internationally accepted principles. Annual capacity 330,000 m³ Personnel 70 & subcontractors www.upm.com Currently 70 employees are directly employed by UPM Raw material Nordic pine www.upmbiofore.com Korkeakoski sawmill and in total 90 people are working in the sawmill area. Sawmill’s history is dating back to 1960 Production • Log sorting by x-ray • Effective and flexible saw line when the sawmilling operations started in Korkeakoski. • Channel kilns The sawmill has been modernized in various stages and • Camera based quality grading the most significant investment in recent years was the new UPM standard sawn timber for construction and UPM bio heating plant established in 2013. Products Plus special sawn timber for joinery, furniture industry and construction Drying KD, special kiln drying 8–16% also possible Lengths 3.0–5.7 meters Length packaged and truck bundled options, Packing covered on five sides UPM Korkeakoski sawn timber is used in the joinery industry for window frames in the UK..