WOOD PROCUREMENT AND BIOFUEL
Koskisen’s wood procurement company Koskitukki Oy is known for its ethical purchasing. The most important wood species procured are coniferous and birch logs.
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WOOD PROCUREMENT AND BIOFUEL
In addition to wood procurement, Koskitukki Oy is responsible for the Group’s forest holdings and management of forest areas for a numbers of private owners. Koskitukki also supplies wood material to many other mills in southern Finland.
Koskitukki Oy supplies forest residues to nearby power plants for bioenergy production. Koskisen’s mills also use bioenergy.
Finland is the most forested country in Europe
- 75 % of Finland’s land area is forest
- 53 % forests are family-owned, rest is owned by the state and companies. The area of forest per inhabitant is over 4 hectares.
- 95 % of economic forests are certified
- The important principles of Finnish forest management are sustainability and closeness to nature
- Forest sector’s contribution to GDP 4.2 %
- Value of exports over 11 400 million €
- Share of exports is 20 %
- Employees 65 000
- Forests grow at an annual rate of 105 million cubic meters and the total harvested is 65 million cubic meters
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