Wood Processing Division

Profile

The Wood Processing Division is one of the world’s leading suppliers of systems, equipment, and processes for all steps required in a woodyard - from receiving logs to their subsequent preparation into wood chips - for the production of chemical and mechanical pulps.

The Wood Processing Division is based in Hollola, Finland and has sites in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden; Alpharetta, GA, USA; Montreal and Edmonton, both in Canada; and São Paulo, Brazil.

Business Development

The Wood Processing Division succeeded in keeping its leading position in the major markets of Northern and Central Europe, South America, China, Canada, and the USA.

On-time completion was achieved for the wood and chip processing installation at Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. in Valdivia, Chile, and successful start-ups for the woodyard and groundwood modernization project at Stora Enso Baienfurt GmbH & Co., Germany, and for Weyerhaeuser's New Bern, NC tree-length debarking system.

Major Orders

• The Division booked an order for a complete wood and chip processing installation from China.

• The Division was selected by Weyerhaeuser Co., USA to supply a wood handling system and by Interstate Paper Co., USA to supply a stacker-reclaimer to a pulp mill in Georgia.

• The Division’s wood processing expertise was confirmed by several orders for TMP and MDF plants in China.

Other Important Orders

Customer, Country	Products/systems ordered
DareWood, China	Woodroom equipment for MDF
Weyerhaeuser Ltd., Canada	Crane modernization
Grant Forest, Canada	RotaBarker™
Sappi, USA	HHQ-Chipper™ line
Mondi Kraft Ltd., South Africa	Chip screening modifications
Korsnäs AB, Sweden	Drum-Chipper line with HHQ-Chipper™

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Research and Development

The newly developed RotaBarker™ debarking system, primarily for frozen logs, has proved to be an excellent winter debarking product.  A new order for a RotaBarker™ was received and the system will be started in Canada in spring 2004.

A new chip sampler/analyzer has progressed from prototype development to performance test runs. Another service-related product development is Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for chippers, where the condition monitoring expertise of Acutest Oy is being utilized to find new ways to optimize maintenance for chippers.