References

Mission Forest Products is a high-tech, state-of-the-art sawmill in Corinth, Mississippi. They process high-quality pine sawlogs with an annual output capacity of about 250 million board feet of lumber (~590,000 m3).

VIDA AB is Sweden’s largest sawmill group with 23 production plants, 12 of which are sawmills. Since 2019, the Canadian forest industry group CANFOR has owned the majority of VIDA AB.

Haka-Wood, in Viitasaari Central Finland, is one of the few sawmills in Finland focusing solely on birch. High-quality birch in the area has enabled a continuous expansion of the production in the sawmill, which was started already in the 1960’s.

The Swedish Södra is a large international forest industry group that manufactures cross-laminated timber, bioproducts, pulp and paper, and sawn timber, among other products. Södra has six softwood sawmills in Sweden and the production volume of the sawn wood in the mills is about 1.9 million m3 annually.

Dempsey Wood Products is a family owned and operated sawmill, founded in 1988. They process predominantly southern yellow pine and annual production is approximately 120 mmbf (283,000 m3) on a one shift operation.

Labe Wood is a big volume production plant; capacity of the sawmill is about 1.000.000 m3 of round wood per year. The production volume is about 600 000 m³ of lumber yearly and the end-product is delivered to Europe.

The Ola sawmill makes lumber from Southern yellow pine and the mill has a capacity of 155 million board feet. They process 550,000 tons (768,500 m3) of round wood yearly and the mill debarks mainly tree length stems, but occasionally also cut to length.

Elvipo is using fir and spruce and their end-product is sawn timber mainly for export. The debarking capacity of the sawmill is 60,000 m3 per year and the logs are pre-cut to 3-5 meters.