This year, we will be attending the Wood Products & Technology trade fair together with our Swedish reseller L.O.A.B. The products we will be exhibiting include the CT Log log scanning simulator, the Truespin log scanner, the Finscan board scanner and the Woodeye and Goldeneye reman quality scanners.
We would love it if you could come visit us at our stand!

Please contact us and let us know you are coming!
Juha Ropilo, MiCROTEC, juha.ropilo@microtec.eu,
+358 10 208 5517
Stefan Stoltz, L.O.A.B., stefan.stoltz@loab.se,
+46 70 212 7971

MiCROTEC’s stand is located at B04:50. L.O.A.B’s stands are B02:32 and B03:32
Trade fair map

The Wood Products & Technology trade fair brings together professionals in forest management, sawmilling, further processing and wood construction, as well as in research and in the development of new materials. Read more about the trade fair
and redeem your free ticket to the fair

See you in Gothenburg!

Two years ago, in the middle of the pandemic, MiCROTEC acquired the American market leader & pioneer in the field of AI-based scanner solutions Lucidyne. Exactly one year after the rebrandings of FinScan as MiCROTEC Espoo and Woodeye as MiCROTEC Linköping in Europe, which have taken place in the meantime, now the brand integration in America and Canada follows. The worldwide one brand strategy of MiCROTEC as the world-leading wood scanning solutions is entering its final phase. As of today, Lucidyne is MiCROTEC Corvallis. SPRINGER-MiCROTEC in Vancouver becomes MiCROTEC Vancouver and is one team together with Corvallis. MiCROTEC Corvallis is the MiCROTEC hub for the North American market as well as Australia and New Zealand. This integration means significant improvements for all MiCROTEC customers – worldwide.

Significantly expanded product range and increased presence in the USA and Canada

“Lucidyne’s excellent AI technology and outstanding service quality in one brand combined with a significantly expanded product portfolio and MiCROTEC’s global experience is the basis for a new strong player in the North American market,” explains Frank Jöst, CEO of MiCROTEC. More than 100 employees at two locations, complemented by a total of 400 global colleagues, are committed to strengthening and expanding the company’s position as a global leader in North America.

“Our companies share the same values & vision, so this brand integration is the perfect evolution for us,” emphasizes Mark Hiatt, Managing Director MiCROTEC Corvallis & Vancouver.

More customer proximity for Australia and New Zealand

All MiCROTEC customers in Australia and New Zealand will be supported by MiCROTEC Corvallis. In terms of customer support, this means a similar time zone and thus a significant simplification of communication.

AI power for Europe on the rise

Since the start of the cooperation, one of the main goals has been to combine the state-of-the-art technologies of both companies. For Europe, this means above all integrating the revolutionary and patented Artificial Intelligence platform into the complete MiCROTEC product range and with this innovation step to bring the AI scale from logs to lumber scanners to the next level. All R & D teams are working together at full speed to achieve this goal.

“We are very proud to be able to expand the competencies in the field of artificial intelligence for Europe with our US know-how,” emphasizes Patrick Freeman, to date CTO of Lucidyne. Since March 2022, the industry-wide AI icon is now also responsible for MiCROTEC as Chief Technology Officer. We are already looking forward to the launch of this further development in Europe.

MiCROTEC worldwide in distinctive turquoise

With the brand integration of Lucidyne, MiCROTEC’s turquoise is now the distinctive color of the leading scanner solutions for the wood industry worldwide and represents the company’s core brand values: innovation, striving for excellence, and teamwork.

“This is also a strong signal to our European customers, to whom we will continue to offer even more innovative scanner and software solutions through global synergies and an enlarged team in product development,” states Arianna Giudiceandrea Chief Sales Officer MiCROTEC.

MiCROTEC Espoo and Iisveden Metsä Oy have signed an agreement on two new deliveries to the Iisvesi sawmill. The first delivery is for the Moistspy dry lumber moisture meter, slated for installation in late summer 2022. The second delivery is for Finscan T&B 6000 dry lumber quality scanner, replacing the old Boardmaster-HD quality scanner at the combi mill. The Finscan scanner will be installed and put into service in late summer 2023, and it eliminates the need to turn boards between measuring sections. The latest measuring technology also improves the detection of blue stain, rot and defects.

Iisveden Metsä Oy has a long history of using Finscan quality scanners. The first Boardmaster scanner was put into service in combined sorting in 2012, with Boardmaster-HD implemented in new green sorting in 2019. Iisveden Metsä Oy currently produces about 150,000 m3 of spruce lumber per year.

– For Iisveden Metsä Oy, upgrading the dry sorting system is part of our company’s long-term development programme designed to increase capacity and standardize the quality of customer deliveries in terms of moisture and grading. Furthermore, continuous moisture monitoring enables optimal adjustment of drying quality, energy consumption and drying capacity in dry kilns, says Iisveden Metsä Oy’s Managing Director Tommy Lindström.

At Stora Enso‘s sawmill, fully software-based strength grading is performed with MiCROTEC’s Finscan quality scanner in dry sorting. Software-based machine strength grading uses statistical analysis of knots, directions of growth and other knot-related factors to create a model, based on which the strength is then estimated. The MiCROTEC Finscan system has so far been approved for machine strength grading in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and in the Baltic States.

The completely new sawn timber strength calculation software was approved in 2019 at a meeting of the CEN group for use in mechanical strength grading in accordance with standard EN 14081. The novelty and advantage of the system is that as a fully software-based solution it can be installed directly on almost all MiCROTEC Finscan systems in use without any changes to the electronics or sawmill mechanics.

Read more about strength grading

The Wood From Finland Conference, celebrating its 20th anniversary, is an international conference organized by the Finnish Sawmills Association, which focuses on the global sawn softwood market. At the WFFC event, industry experts from around the world will gather to discuss the future of the industry and the global market situation. Microtec is involved in supporting the event and our staff will be available at all venues during the event.

Register to the Wood From Finland Conference

Check out the program

See you in Helsinki!

Meet MiCROTEC at the following Trade Fairs & Congresses planned for 2022:

MLMA – Providence, USA – February, 24-25
FIMMA – Bento Gonçalves, BRA – March, 14-17
SLMA & SFPA – New Orleans, USA – March, 16-18
COFI – Vancouver, CAN – April, 27-29
WOODTECH – Rotorua, NZL – May, 18-19
MONTRÉAL WOOD CONVENTION – Montréal, CAN – May, 24-25
WWPA – Stevenson, USA – May, 24-26
EUROBOIS – Lyon, FRA – June, 14-17
DEUTSCHER HOLZKONGRESS – Berlin, GER – June, 29-30
MLMA – Biloxi, USA – July, 16-18
SLMA – Colorado Springs, USA – July, 20-23
IWF – Atlanta, USA – August, 23-26
TRÄ OCH TEKNIK – Gothenburg, SWE – August, 30-September, 02
INTERNATIONALE HOLZMESSE – Klagenfurt, GER – August, 31-September, 03
NHLA – Cleveland, USA – September, 21-23
TIMBER PROCESSING AND ENERGY EXPO – Portland, USA – September, 28-30
SAWMILL INDUSTRY DAYS – Hämeenlinna, FIN – November, 02-03

Microtec will supply Koskisen‘s new wood processing unit with a Finscan quality scanner for the green sorting line of side boards. The scanner utilizes artificial intelligence technology developed by Microtec, among other things, to improve the identification of knots, rot and wane.

The delivery is a continuation of the long-term cooperation between Koskisen Oy and Microtec, for example in the measurement of the quality of sawn timber.

Geared towards eco-efficiency and a 40% increase in productivity

Koskisen will carry out an investment in Kärkölä worth EUR 48 million, with production scheduled to start up in summer 2023. The new unit’s annual production will initially be 400,000 cubic metres of softwood sawn timber.

 The starting point for Koskisen’s integrated mechanical wood processing operations in Järvelä is high eco-efficiency and the highest possible utilisation of the wood material.

 “The new production line will increase sawmilling productivity by up to 40% and enable the utilisation of a broader range of log diameters. This will allow us to offer our customers new products, and the wood raw material can be used even more effectively for end products that store carbon for a long time,” explains Koskisen Sawn Timber Industry Director Tommi Sneck.

Read the whole Koskisen release about the project

Fin Scan Oy’s new name Microtec Innovating Wood Oy was registered in the Trade Register on 13 August 2021.

Our business ID remains unchanged.

The new name will be used in official contexts. In other cases, our marketing name Microtec Espoo is used.

If our name change requires changes to our agreements, please contact Juha Ropilo, Sales Manager, juha.ropilo@microtec.eu

In June, we moved to a new address in Espoo. Our new address is Klovinpellontie 1-3, 02180 Espoo.

Our email addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@microtec.eu.