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Expert organisation ofering timber construction training and product development services
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Expert organisation ofering
timber construction training
and product development services
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Established in 2006, Woodpolis is a city-owned expert organisation promoting timber construction development and maintaining and supporting a learning environment.
Its aim is to promote woodworking businesses by developing secondary production innovations for timber construction together with companies and other partners.
Woodpolis works at the forefront to develop innovations for ecological construction in cooperation with companies.
Woodpolis develops and organises training courses in woodworking and timber construction on its own and also in cooperation with educational establishments.
Woodpolis governs the only training factory in Finland, serving for innovative timber
construction and training and complying with actual manufacturing requirements.
HistoryThe roots of Woodpolis lie in high-quality raw materials from the Kainuu region, develo-ping and growing companies and supporting long-term development work of the city of Kuhmo.
As early as in 1992, Kuhmo started a determined development efort to promote the wood-processing industry by establishing the Kainuu Wood Processing Development Centre (KPKKP). Woodpolis has continued that work since 2006.
What is Woodpolis?
Woodpolis has a modern woodworking environment with high-quality machinery, instal-lations and software (CAD/CAM) available for companies and educational institutions for training and product-development purposes. We also ofer subcontracting and machine-ry rental services. The training factory ofers a whole range of opportunities for companies just starting up or those striving for further development.
We organise tailored training courses to meet companies’ needs, making use of a compa-ny’s own products in a real manufacturing environment. If your company has further trai-ning needs, please contact Jari Kähkönen.
The training factory can house courses on 3D design, CAD and CAM engineering, in-ger-jointing techniques of timber, timber seasoning, surface treatment, wood- planing and planing-cutter techniques along with cutter maintenance.
Training factory at your service
The woodworking CNC machine center allows processing of up to 12-metre-long straight and arched glulam beams and CLT elements. The working area of the machining centre is 3.2 × 12 metres, which makes it possible to work large and multi-shaped pieces, such as wooden structures for blocks of lats and other large buildings.
The machinery acquisitions for the training factory were inanced from the Woodpolis-In-no Project, which was carried out between the 1st of April 2008 –and the 30th of June 2012, and was funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Kainuu Federati-on of Municipalities, 13 companies and the city of Kuhmo.
Contact information
Jari Kähkönen
Service Manager
Kivikatu 2, 88900 Kuhmo
Telephone: +358 44 725 5306
Training factory
The operations of the Kantola Timber Cluster are aimed at ofering versatile services to meet the needs of timber house building. The cluster’s companies produce sawn timber, CLT pa-nels, planar and modular elements, log cabins and chalets, planed wood, wooden elements, windows, timber construction design services and various wooden structures.
More than one million cubic metres of timber is processed by the timber cluster yearly. The annual turnover of the cluster exceeds 100 million euro. Manufactured timber products are delivered to the domestic market and exported to dozens of other countries.
Companies of the Kantola Timber Cluster:Elementti Sampo Oy
- Produces solid timber planar and modular elements and ofers an opportunity to build
ecologically compatible wooden blocks of lats to high standards
Kainuun Lastu Oy
- Produces germproof and dust-free bedding/litter
Kuhmon AA-Puu Oy
- Specialises in planed and coated timber products
Kuhmon Ikkuna Oy
- High-quality windows of standard and individual design with 30 years’ experience
Kuhmon Lämpö Oy
- Heat energy and electricity serving the needs of the surrounding area
Kantola Timber Cluster
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Kuhmo Oy
- Dynamic and international operator of an independent sawmill
M-Pelletti Oy
- Supplier of clean and high-quality timber pellets throughout the year
Myyntipalvelu Esa Haverinen
- Buildings and storage crates for courtyards created from quality timber
Oy Crosslam Kuhmo Ltd
- The irst producer and supplier of CLT panels (cross-laminated timber) in Finland
Oy Timber Frame Ltd
- Producer of high-quality Finnish log houses with 20 years’ experience of delivering
custom-built prefabricated log houses mostly for export
Rakennus-Sauma Komulainen Ky
- Medium-sized building company specialising in contract building and renovations of
property, with residential, industrial and commercial properties as its main branch
Timber Bros Oy
- Engineering oice specialising in timber construction that ofers services in construction
planning, timber construction design, timber element design and CAD/CAM woodworking
design for most widely used CNC machining centres while also manufacturing and selling
its own solid timber structures
Kuhmo excels in its energy eiciency and use of
bio energy The volume of heat and electricity produced within the industrial zone of Kuhmo substantially exceeds its requirements, which allows a great part of it to be distributed to other local consumers. Energy is produced from by-products of the Kuhmo Oy sawmill: bark and sawdust. In global terms, and considering the size of this industrial zone, we are talking about signiicant levels of energy production.
More than 60% of the energy used in Kuhmo is
produced using renewable energy sources The energy production in Kuhmon Lämpö Oy relies solely on by-products of the Kuhmo Oy sawmill. The sawdust and bark remaining from the manufacturing process are utilised for the production of heat and electricity. One can argue that bio-economy was introduced in Kuhmo way before there was a word for it.
In 2010, the timber cluster companies of the Kantola industrial zone produced nearly 80 GWh more energy than they consumed. In monetary terms, this is equivalent to a couple of million euro per year. The area also supplied fuel chips and briquettes with an energy content of 145 GWh, which is utilised elsewhere, mostly outside Kuhmo. The energy content gained from the by-products of the manufacturing processes of the timber companies in the Kantola area is approximately three times greater than the amount of energy they consumed.The heating plant Kuhmon Lämpö Oy, owned by the city of Kuhmo and Kuhmo Oy, runs solely on bio-based sources of energy. Kuhmo’s environmental programme is pioneering in the reduction of its the carbon footprint.
A positive energy balance is signiicant for the attractiveness of the industrial zone. The timber cluster will make good use of this achievement in the future when a comprehensive plan for the area is being drafted.
Bio energy in Kuhmo
In Kuhmo, entrepreneurs receive all necessary services at the Municipal Business Ser-vices Unit, located in the city centre, helping those who are planning to open a busi-ness and those who wish to further develop their business.
Services provided include, among others:
- consultancy in establishing and developing a new business- inancial consultation, information services- support in networking- R&D and educational services in timber construction - assistance in organising business premises
Business services unit of Kuhmo
Kari Malinen, Business Service Secretarytel. +358 44 7255 [email protected]
Tapani Kiiskinen, Development Director tel. +358 44 7255 [email protected]
The development director of the city of Kuhmo is in charge of development measures for enhancing the city’s attractiveness and the operative management of Woodpolis.
Address:The city of KuhmoKainuuntie 82FIN-88900 KUHMO
Development Director of the city of Kuhmo
Kuhmo – a business-friendly city
Contact information:
Woodpolis, Kivikatu 2, 88900 Kuhmo, Finland
Tapani Kiiskinen
Development Director of the City of Kuhmo
tel. +358 44 7255 304
Training factory
Jari Kähkönen
Service Manager
tel. +358 44 7255 306
