Renewing Wood Product Value Chains and Timber Procurement Solutions, PUU

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1 Renewing Wood Product Value Chains and Timber Procurement Solutions, PUU Research and Development Programme Finnish Forest Research Institute PUU programme increases knowledge on procurement, qualities and uses of timber, and supports the development and implementation of new products, services, business concepts and information systems Metsäntutkimuslaitos Skogsforskningsinstitutet Finnish Forest Research Institute

2 Key information Programme period (11 Metla s theme projects + 7 externally funded projects in the beginning of year 2010) Disciplines: forest engineering, wood science and technology, business economics, forestry planning Participating Metla personnel researchers technicians Programme director Dr. Henrik Heräjärvi

3 Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board Name Ilmari Absetz Eino Hekali Simo Jaakkola Erno Järvinen (chairman) Reima Sutinen Minna Lappalainen Leena Paavilainen Timo Pihkala Timo Pöljö Olli Raunio Jouko Silen Hanna Vilkman Organisation The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation Honka Ltd. The Trade Association of Finnish Forestry and Earth Moving Contractors The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners Ministry of Employment and the Economy University of Jyväskylä Finnish Forest Research Institute Lappeenranta University of Technology Metsäliitto Ltd. Raunio Timber Ltd. Stora Enso Timber Ltd. Ponsse Ltd

4 Objective of the PUU programme The aim of the PUU programme is to enhance the competitive ability of wood product industries (large and SME s), timber procurement organisations and timber sellers by producing information on quality potentials of the current and future growing stock, wood materials and new wood products and end uses, as well as their competitiveness, technical and environmental performance, technical, service and business solutions that increase the customer value and cost competitiveness of timber procurement and timber sales, novel customer, service, product and network solutions based on value added wood products and by participating the development and implementation of the products, services, processes and business concepts

5 Knowledge needs in wood product value chains and their relations to the PUU programme Wood s raw material potentials and timber trade functions Wood s raw material potentials and timber trade functions Competitiveness Competitiveness Material substitution Material substitution Future raw materials Future raw materials Timber scaling and grading Timber scaling and grading Properties, quality, and quantity Properties, quality, and quantity Pricing and the formation of value Pricing and the formation of value Timber sales planning and services Timber sales planning and services Control of bucking and raw material flows Control of bucking and raw material flows Other research and development programmes of Metla Wood products and their customer solutions Wood products and their customer solutions Wood construction Wood construction Business innovations Business innovations Markets and networks Markets and networks Technical performance Technical performance Environmental performance Environmental performance New products and customer solutions New products and customer solutions Customer valuation and willingness to pay Customer valuation and willingness to pay PUU PUU programme programme Co-ordination Co-ordination Networking Networking Research resources Research resources Implementation and dissemination Implementation and dissemination Research and development collaboration: wood product and forest machinery industries, universities, research institutes, timber producers Other national and international programmes: Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes), Forestcluster Ltd., Finnish government, EU Timber procurement and Timber procurement and competitiveness of the companies competitiveness of the companies Profitability Profitability Information flows Information flows Technological solutions Technological solutions Logistics and added value Logistics and added value Harvesting for roadside sales Harvesting for roadside sales Service-based business concepts Service-based business concepts

6 Organisation PUU programme co-ordination Wood s raw material potentials and timber trade functions Timber procurement and competitiveness of the companies Wood products and their customer solutions Theme projects in 2010: Raw material potentials, properties, suitability and competitiveness of Scots pine and Norway spruce in wood product industries, (Erkki Verkasalo) Assessing quantity, quality and value of wood raw-material for timber trade and procurement, (Jukka Malinen) Environmental performance of weather and decay resistant timber, (Martti Venäläinen) Possibilities of equipment and assessories in use of forest machinery, (Matti Sirén) Profitability development of service businesses of wood procurement enterprises, (Markku Penttinen) New logistic and technology innovations in wood procurement of forest industry, (Kari Väätäinen) Technology and logistics of industrial and energy wood in Finland and in the EU, (Antti Asikainen) New wood product solutions and their competitiveness, (Henrik Heräjärvi) Business networks, innovation and new product and service concepts in wood products industries of the building construction value chain, (Thomas Rimmler) Woodworking industries customer segments and their product and service needs in the internationalized markets, (Kari Valtonen) Determinants of survival and sustainable growth of wooden house manufacturing enterprises, (Pekka Mäkinen)

7 Externally funded projects in the beginning of 2010 Value creation in wood supply chains (WOODVALUE), Successful carpenter factory, Less is more intelligent and learning timber procurement, Developing the Pinus sylvestris L. resource, Properties of structural and garden products made of small-diameter timber, Cost-efficient analysis and utilisation of stilbenoids of Scots pine, Recycling and re-use of wood products,

8 Previous collaboration with Russia* Quality and suitability of imported spruce and pine from the end use viewpoint for sawn timber Log and sawn timber properties of northern spruce from Finnish Lapland and Republic of Karelia (northern district) Compilations of rounwood measurement Reviews of birch plywood and veneer industries, markets, products and raw materials Forest industries, wood construction and wooden house markets * List of publications provided separately

9 VISION As a result of the PUU programme, Metla is becoming the leading national organisation, as well as an internationally acknowledged source of expertise within the three programme themes: 1. Wood s raw material potentials and timber trade functions 2. Timber procurement and competitiveness of the companies 3. Wood products and their customer solutions

10 For more information, please contact: Programme director Henrik Heräjärvi Co-ordinator Erkki Verkasalo (Wood s raw material potentials and timber trade functions) Erkki.Verkasalo@metla.fi Co-ordinator Matti Sirén (Timber procurement and competitiveness of the companies) Matti.Siren@metla.fi Co-ordinator Henrik Heräjärvi (Wood products and customer solutions) Henrik.Herajarvi@metla.fi