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Keitele Timber Keitele

Keitele Timber Keitele is an operating softwood sawmill in Keitele, Finland, with a capacity of 600 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year.

Company
Keitele Timber Oy
Group
Keitele Group
WoodComp ID
01063 (how IDs work)
Country
Finland
City
Keitele
Status
Operating
Capacity
600 000 m3/y sawn timber
Type
Softwood
Region
Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi
Website
keitelegroup.fi

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Raw material

PineSpruce

Products

Sawn timber
Finger-jointed timberGlulamPlaned timberSawn timber
Byproducts
District HeatingPelletsSawmill chips

Certifications

PEFC

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Related facilities

Keitele Timber Keitele is the 2nd largest sawmill in Finland of the 50 with a sawn timber capacity figure in WoodComp's register.

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Keitele Timber Alajärvi ·Keitele Timber Kemijärvi
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Metsä Fibre Rauma ·Kuhmo sawmill ·Versowood Vierumäki ·Metsä Fibre Vilppula ·Pfeifer Kajaani
Nearest facilities
ER-Saha Viitasaari (25 km) ·FM Timber Pihtipudas (41 km) ·Iisalmen Sahat (IPO Wood) (60 km) ·Koskisen Iisvesi (former Iisveden Metsä) (66 km) ·Anaika Soinlahti (67 km)

Timeline

  1. 2017product added

    Pellet production started at the Keitele site in 2017, following a major modernisation of the main cutting line between 2008 and 2011.

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  2. 2005product added

    The glulam factory of Keitele Engineered Wood Oy at Keitele was completed in 2005.

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  3. 1999expansion

    A high power industrial planing line and an optimising cutting line started up at the Keitele site in 1999, followed by a small log line in 2001.

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  1. 1994startup

    A new state of the art sawmill was put into operation at Keitele in 1994.

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  2. 1981founded

    Ilkka Kylävainio founded the sawmilling company at Keitele in 1981 under the name Keiteleen Teollisuussaha Oy.

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Sources

Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed

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WoodComp (). Keitele Timber Keitele (WoodComp ID 01063). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/1063

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