Team Finland cordially invites you to participate in Smart Forestry Finland: Seminar, Business Matching and Networking Session on Thursday (10 October 2024), 12PM at Hospitality Lounge 1, Exhibition Hall 1, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in conjunction with IGEM 2024.

“Strong digital expertise and industrial know-how make Finland a global leader in smart forestry and plantation”

Finland is one of the global superpowers in digitalization and forestry. The new, digital innovations are offering new solutions for the transformation of the industry – to increase the efficiency and safety as well as to offer real-time, accurate and evidence-based decision-making tools, contributing the move towards decarbonization and sustainable forestry and plantation operation.

The industry is going through an extensive sustainable transformation, with inventory, harvesting and management all going digital and data-driven. This means demand for new solutions in which Finland is a world-class provider. The new optimized, demand-based inventory and harvesting methods enhance procurement and harvesting work and efficiency in both use of wood material and equipment usage. Precision forestry transforms the industry from highly manual and analog workflows with broad-brush management prescriptions to a system with digital data capture and planning, granular management prescriptions, and tight operational control.

“Forest industry is a major contributor to well-being in Finland”

The success of the forest industry is important for Finland, as forest industry products account for about a fifth of Finland’s exports. The forest industry’s existing products will continue to be the basis for business operations for years to come, as new generations of paper, packaging and wood products are continuously developed. New bio-economy products and new business will be created alongside existing products generating job opportunities and prosperity.

Join us for an opportunity to meet with Finnish smart forestry and plantation players and hear about how smart forestry could transform the sector through precision forestry and agriculture. A unique opportunity to learn from industry experts, exchange ideas, and network with like-minded professionals.

Participating Companies:

AFRY: AFRY Smart Forestry provides software solutions and analytical services for the forestry supply chain, from remote sensing-based forest inventory to optimizing the forestry operations execution. Bioindustry management consulting provides strategic advisory and solution in whole forest sector, from valuation work, biomass sourcing analysis, supply chain assessment, to market insights.

Arbonaut: Arbonaut is a world-leading provider of reliable and accurate digital information on forests. With over 25 years of global experience and an intensive partnership network globally, we create practical, innovation-driven solutions with the mission to promote the responsible use of forests. Our experts are adept of the use of LiDAR and GIS technologies, data processing and analysis, and software development for multifunctional and sustainable forest management. Along with high precision and reliable forest information, our customers get smart solutions that not only help them optimize and efficiently run their operations but also support decision-making.

Raute: Raute is the partner to future-proof the wood industry. A global market leader and the only end-to-end partner in veneer, plywood and LVL production technologies. Combined offerings in Wood Processing, Analyzers and Services into innovative production solutions, powered by data and digital tools. Raute's technologies cover different production processes with supporting digital and analytics solutions for engineered wood products. Additionally, Raute offers full-scale service concept ranging from spare parts to regular maintenance and modernizations. Raute's innovative hardware and software solutions are designed to support our customers’ efficient consumption of natural resources.

Avant Wood: Avant Wood patented Thermo-Mechanical Timber Modification (TMTM™), an integrated process of drying, densification and thermo modification to enhance timber properties. TMTM™ minimizes energy consumption, cuts labor and material costs, and reduces environmental impact and improves overall business performance.

AutoSawit Technology: AutoSawit Technology Oy is developing a world first integrated Oil Palm Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) harvesting solution that combines an agile, productive harvester with an AI driven intelligent virtual plantation platform. With pinpoint accuracy and palm fruiting modelling, our solution will be able to create truly optimal harvesting and upkeep operations that close the yield gap and ensure that no bunch is left behind. Our solution is based on combining proven technology from the high-tech Finnish forestry sector with our own proprietary palm fruit harvesting and handling design as well as industry and agronomic know-how from Malaysia and beyond.

Luxhammar: Luxhammar delivers complete thermal modification units. Thermal modification is ecological method to protect wood against Bacidiomycetes. The treatment is based on natural method that makes wood protect itself. It combines thousands of years known phenomenon of improvement of woods decay resistance by heating with modern high technology.

*Lunch provided

For further information on the seminar, please contact:

Mohamed Farid, Senior Advisor, Business Finland, mohamed.farid@businessfinland.fi

Anni Ståhle, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland, Anni.Stahle@gov.fi

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Smart Forestry Finland: Seminar, Business Matching & Networking Session