Finland - Lumber industry presentation in Petäjävesi - Finland (2019)

1. Lumber industry
Laura, Venla, Pinja and Sointu

2. In general
• An industry where the raw
material is wood
• Forestry, logging, timber trade,
production of forest products
• From the beginning to the end

3. Origin
• Since prehistory human has used
wood in different purposes
• Material was easy to find and utilize
• Tools, houses, ships, weapons,
warming...
• Industrialization for
example demanded wood
• Lumber industry was born

4. Wood types and use
• Pine
• Very easy to work with
• Commonly used in furniture
• Cedar
• Relatively soft
and one of the most aromatic woods
• Mostly used for outdoor projects
• Fir
• Moderately strong
• Most often used for building
• Oak
• Strong, resistant to moisture and very durable
• Used for furniture making and flooring
• Ash
• Hard, very strong and elastic
• For instance used for tool handles,
baseball bats and electric guitar bodies
• Beech
• A utility timber
• Widely used for household items,
engineering purposes and flooring
• Elm
• Valued for its interlocking grain and resis
tance to splitting
• For example used for wagon wheel hubs,
chair seats and coffins
• Mahogany
• Has a reddish tint
• One of the great furniture woods
• Teak
• Durable and water resistant
• Used for boat building, veneer, furniture,
etc.
• Walnut
• Hard, easy to work with and expensive
• Used for inlays

5. Global impact
• Overuse:
• Forests are very important as carbon
sinks
• Slovs down climate change
• Lumber industry uses these forests
• Important to replace the use so
that climate change wont escalate
• Causes extinction to many species
• Global demand for low-cost timber products
increases
• Supports a multi-billion dollar business
of illegal and unsustainable logging in
forests worldwide
• Extinctions and climate change
Negative: Positive:
• Offers work globally to many people
• Sustainable opportunities
• Replacing plastics for example
• Renewable
• Important global business

6. Different ways to
replace harvested trees
• Plant saplings
• Seed tree harvest
• Some trees are left in
the harvested area to
provide seeds for a new
forest stand
• Natural regeneration
• Nature returns an area
to forestland
• Burning trees
• The ash from the
burned trees provides
some nourishment for
the plants

7. Global
Organisations
Metsä Group
Stora Enso
UPM

8. Developing and
developed
countries
• Sustainable forestry in developing
countries:
• Doesn't come true
• Profit
• Political instability, obscurity of
landowning
-> The numer of forests decreases
• In wealthier countries
• Sustainability
• Not only profit