Applications for sawn timber

Our sawn timber is an excellent material for paneling and trim products. The consistently high quality of Nordic softwood combined with our skilled, efficient sawing ensure that you get exactly the right kind of wood for your needs.

• Spruce is a natural option for indoor and outdoor paneling. Changes can be made to the profile or colour of the panel to achieve a variety of looks and stylish features.
• The density of pine wood and low knot distance of pine make it the best option. 

Our pine sawn timber is an ideal material for impregnated decking. The inherent properties of pine suit the impregnation process and improve the weather and rot resistance of end products. 

Manufacturers of heat-treated decking boards need raw material that satisfies their strict quality criteria. Our high-quality sawn timber, both pine and spruce, is a great raw material for heat-treated decking and flooring.

Our sawn timber is a also good wooden material for small garden structures. Additionally, sawn timber can serve as a roof deck providing a foundation for roofing materials.

We offer a wide selection of standard dimensions in compliance with the Nordic quality grading for sawn timber. Consistency between sawmills, good technical quality and reliable deliveries bring predictability to the customers’ own operations. Examples of carpentry products made from sawn timber could be wooden decorative items, crafts, specific DIY projects and mouldings, or artistic and architectural woodworks.

As material, pine and spruce sawn timber are easy to work and surface-treat. Pine sawn timber is a particularly good material for high-quality carpentry products. These products are typically made of U/S and V grade timber, the two highest qualities.

We provide high-quality pine sawn timber for the manufacture of window and door components. Modern X-ray technology is used to grade the wood based on the growth ring width, knot distance and heartwood content, as specified in the customer’s quality requirements.

The customer’s precise dimensional requirements are taken into account in the sawn timber production process. Modern measuring systems ensure an extremely accurate dimensional tolerance, while drying methods specified for individual grades/dimensions provide exactly the right target moisture for the end product. 

Dense-grained pine with a high heartwood content is an ideal choice for window and door frames. Heartwood is a non-toxic natural product. Its rot-resistance extends the service life of doors and windows.

For finger-jointed glulam billets, the raw material is graded according to the knot frequency specified by the customer. Wood that has been graded by knot distance, using X-ray grading parameters, helps optimise the customer’s own yield.   

Metsä Fibre’s long experience in the production of glulam raw material guarantees you will get the right solutions for glulam production. Sawn timber made of slow-grown, fine-grained and small-knotted Nordic pine and spruce is well suited for demanding glulam structures. 

Nordic wood is an excellent choice for the manufacture of glulam beams and studs. Wood is a natural, renewable construction material that sequesters carbon dioxide throughout its life-cycle. It helps improve the quality of indoor air and balances indoor humidity. 

We supply high-quality pine and spruce sawn timber for log house building material. Live-knotted pine sawn timber cut to size from the middle log and dried to the appropriate moisture content is an excellent construction material for log houses or cabins. Spruce, with its brighter colour and smaller timber knots, gives a pleasant look and feel to modern homes. 

Logs are a renewable, natural construction material and thus an excellent choice for sustainable construction. Compared to other construction materials, logs benefit from their dense structure and good breathability, which ensures a pleasant level of humidity indoors.  While growing, trees sequester carbon dioxide, and a log wall serves as carbon storage throughout its service life. The strength/weight ratio of wood is in a class of its own. In relation to its weight, wood is stronger than any other construction material. 

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Lightweight and durable Nordic wood bends to the transport needs of both commerce and industry. Most of the Metsä sawn timber used for packaging ends up in industrial use as pallets manufactured in accordance with EUR and FIN standards. An increasing number of pallets used in domestic or international transport have their roots in Finland and at Metsä Fibre sawmills.

Although the raw material for wood packaging is mainly rough sawn timber, increasing attention is being paid to its workability, durability and quality. Dimensional accuracy is also important, since the tolerances are very small for pallets.

The strength and weight ratio of the wood are in a class of their own. The lightness also reduces the total weight of the packaging and thus the carbon footprint of transport. In addition, sawn timber is easy to work with, which is a particular advantage with special packaging.