Metsä Fibre Vilppula
Metsä Fibre Vilppula is an operating softwood sawmill in Mänttä-Vilppula, Finland, with a capacity of 535 000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year.
- Company
- Metsä Fibre Oy
- Group
- Metsä Group
- WoodComp ID
- 01075 (how IDs work)
- Country
- Finland
- City
- Mänttä-Vilppula
- Status
- Operating
- Capacity
- 535 000 m3/y sawn timber
- Type
- Softwood
- Region
- Länsi-Suomi
- Website
- metsagroup.com
62.009, 24.473
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Metsä Fibre Vilppula is the 5th largest sawmill in Finland of the 50 with a sawn timber capacity figure in WoodComp's register.
- More Metsä Group facilities
- Kemi Bioproduct Mill ·Äänekoski Bioproduct Mill ·Metsä Fibre Rauma ·Husum Mill ·Joutseno Mill
- Largest sawmills in Finland
- Keitele Timber Keitele ·Kuhmo sawmill ·Versowood Vierumäki ·Pfeifer Kajaani ·Koskisen Järvelä
- Nearest facilities
- Kinnaskoski Vilppula (2 km) ·JPJ-Wood (23 km) ·Versowood Korkeakoski (23 km) ·Jämsänkoski Mill (37 km) ·Multian Saha (48 km)
Timeline
- 2023-09-28other
The mill marked 18 million cubic metres of spruce sawn timber produced since start-up on 28 September 2023, having passed 17 million cubic metres in June 2022.
Source ↗ - 2012expansion
A modern R250 saw line was started up at Vilppula in 2012 and the two older lines were later sold on to Ukraine.
Source ↗ - 1980startup
The present Vilppula sawmill was built in 1980 by Pohjan Saha to replace the Jaeminkipohja mill lost in a fire, starting at 335,000 cubic metres per year and described at the time as the largest single line sawmill in Europe.
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Data confidence: Medium (74 of 100) how this is computed
- otherchecked 2026-07-26openstreetmap.org
- company websitechecked 2026-08-27metsagroup.com
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