MiCROTEC's Logeye 301 DC will be delivered to Luopajärvi in August 2023, and MiCROTEC Espoo is fully responsible for the delivery. This means that commissioning, maintenance and spare parts deliveries are done from Finland. - The new log scanner is an investment far...
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Meet us at events and trade fairs in 2023!
Come and meet us at the following trade fairs and events: ★ SAWTEC DAYS - Umeå, SWE - January, 18-19★ IHLA - Indianapolis, USA - February, 06-08★ SAWTEC DAYS - Örebro, SWE - February, 08-09★ MLMA - Missisippi, USA - February, 16-17★ SAWTEC DAYS - Ronneby, SWE - March,...
Welcome to the Wood From Finland Conference in Helsinki on February 15-16, 2023
The Wood From Finland Conference, WFFC, is an international conference organized by the Finnish Sawmills Association, which focuses on the global sawn softwood market. At the event, industry experts from around the world will gather to discuss the future of the...
Season’s Greetings!
We want to thank our customers and partners for this year! We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023! This Christmas, we donate our funds, reserved for Christmas presents, to The Association of Friends of the University Children’s...
Artificial intelligence is integrated into all MiCROTEC quality scanners
MiCROTEC has launched a new deep learning platform, MiCROTEC Ai. The platform has been developed in close international cooperation of our experts, and it will serve as the basis of the artificial intelligence of all our quality scanners from now on. Deep learning...
Bettega chooses MiCROTEC – the only 360° supplier in the market
MiCROTEC and Bettega Legnami S.r.l. have agreed on a large-scale supply of intelligent wood measuring devices for the Bettega sawmill line and the green sorter. The first step is Logeye 901 Stereo, a scanner that makes a 3D reconstruction of the log and first...
Change in the management of MiCROTEC Espoo — Juha Ropilo appointed as a Managing Director
Juha Ropilo has been managing the Sales of MiCROTEC Espoo since April 2020. He has remarkable, over 30 years of experience in the sawmill industry. From November, in addition to his CSO´s duties for Finland, he will be the Managing Director of MiCROTEC Espoo. Frank...
Lucidyne is now MiCROTEC Corvallis
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...
Iisveden Metsä boosts production with the new MiCROTEC Finscan quality scanner and Moistspy moisture meter
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...
MiCROTEC’s Finscan system has been approved for machine strength grading first in the Baltics at Stora Enso sawmill
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...
Welcome to the Wood From Finland Conference in Helsinki on April 27-28, 2022
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...
Meet MiCROTEC at Trade Fairs & Congresses in 2022
Meet MiCROTEC at the following Trade Fairs & Congresses planned for 2022: MLMA - Providence, USA - February, 24-25FIMMA - Bento Gonçalves, BRA - March, 14-17SLMA & SFPA - New Orleans, USA - March, 16-18COFI - Vancouver, CAN - April, 27-29WOODTECH - Rotorua,...
Season’s Greetings!
We want to thank our customers and partners for this year! We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022! This Christmas, we support Save the Children’s work in Finland. Christmas donations help prevent exclusion and help families with...
See you at Woodex in Moscow!
Woodex 2021 will be held at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Center in Moscow from November 30 to December 3. We are pleased to welcome you to visit our booth D3057! Register as a visitor and print a free entrance ticket to the fair Entrance to Woodex 2021 requires a...
Microtec to supply a sawn timber quality scanner to Koskisen’s new wood processing unit
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...
The official name of our company is now Microtec Innovating Wood Oy
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...
Södra Wood’s Värö sawmill speeds up its new planner line with Finscan grading system
The long-term cooperation between MiCROTEC and Södra Wood will continue when MiCROTEC delivers a new Finscan grading system to Södra Wood's Värö sawmill. The delivery is part of Södra Wood's development project, where a new CLT plant will be built in Värö. The need...
We will move to new premises in Espoo on June 14, 2021
This year has been full of happy changes and now there will be one more when we move to new premises in Espoo on June 14th! Our new address is Klovinpellontie 1-3, 02180 Espoo, Finland. We will also have a show room in our new premises later this year where you can...
MiCROTEC to deliver three Finscan scanners to ULK Group’s Pinega sawmill for dry sorting
MiCROTEC (formerly FinScan) will continue its close cooperation with the Russian ULK Group in delivering three Finscan sorting systems for dry sorting departments at ULK’s new Pinega sawmill to be constructed in the Arkhangelsk region. The Finscan system is an...
MiCROTEC announces new branding strategy with FinScan and WoodEye
Microtec, global leader of scanning and optimization solutions for the sawmilling and wood processing industry, today announced the official integration and inclusion of FinScan and WoodEye within the Microtec family. From now on the two companies situated in Finland...
Vara Saeveski has signed a Service Agreement with FinScan as the first sawmill in the Baltics
The Service Agreement model we introduced at the beginning of the year has been very well received. Already 75 percent of our customers in Finland have entered into a service agreement with us, in which FinScan ensures the regular maintenance and upkeep of both...
FinScan Web Report monitors your production in green and dry sorting
Our NOVA grading system scans the boards on a green or dry sorting line from 10 different directions and accurately determines wood defects as well as the dimensions and quality of the sawn timber pieces. Production can be monitored in real time or for specific time...
Our grading system has now also been approved for planed timber strength grading
The FinScan’s timber grading systems has been approved for strength grading of planed goods in accordance with the EN 14081 standard at the meeting of the CEN TC124 / WG2 / TG1 group. Prior to this, strength grading has been possible for green and dry sawn timber....
FinScan now sells, installs and maintains Microtec’s scanning solutions in Finland and Eastern Europe
“We have joined forces in order to provide at best the Eastern European market with high-quality scanning and software solutions,” says Frank Jöst, CEO of Microtec. “Together with the Finnish FinScan, we can further implement and boost joint R&D and sales...
FinScan Local Support is now available from a single number and email
FinScan Local Support in Finland and the Baltics is now serving all matters related to service and maintenance in one phone number and e-mail. This ensures that requests for support are processed quickly and efficiently. You can reach FinScan Local Support for...
We are participating the LESDREVMASH exhibition in Moscow in October 19-22, 2020
We want to welcome you to visit our booth 22C10 in Expocentre Moscow! Our staff is waiting for you to share the latest news of quality grading and our solutions! Held every other year, LESDREVMASH brings to Moscow leaders of the world’s market of logging and...
Sawmills are interested in software-based strength grading developed by FinScan
The completely new sawn timber strength calculation software developed by FinScan 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...
New scanner for CJSC Madera to Irkutsk region
Finscan has signed a contract for the supply of the lumber quality assessment system BoardMasterNOVA and board end analyzer EndSpy for CJSC Madera. The timber processing enterprise CJSC “Madera” is one of the largest in Russia, and has been operating since 1999 in the...
Laura Jokinen has been appointed Marketing Manager of FinScan
Laura Jokinen has started on September 1, 2020 as FinScan’s marketing manager. Laura is responsible for marketing the company’s intelligent grading systems throughout the market. Laura has extensive experience in BtoB marketing, sales, and communications in the...
New MoistSpy for ULK sawmill
Finscan signed a contract to supply the MoistSpy non-contact humidity measurement system to the sawmill of group of companies ULK. MoistSpy will be connected to the BoardMaster Nova lumber scanner, and the two systems will work together to ensure quality sorting...
FinScan machine vision systems for the Metsä Fibre new Rauma sawmill
Member of Metsä Group, Metsä Fibre is building the most modern sawmill in the world to the city of Rauma in the west coast of Finland. Total value of investments is approximately EUR 200 million. FinScan Oy is participating in this large-scale project by supplying...
New sales manager appointed at Fin Scan
Juha Ropilo has been appointed as the sales manager from 27.4.2020. Juha has over 25 years of experience of sawmill equipment and automation sales to the sawmilling industry in Finland and internationally. Juha will be responsible for equipment and service sales in...
New CEO appointed
FinScan Oy has appointed Allan Flink, M.Sc. (For.), as the new CEO of the company starting from March 25th, 2020. Mr. Flink has previously worked in managerial positions at Pöyry Management Consulting and TietoEvry PLC.
Another scanner to the Republic of Belarus
FinScan has signed a contract to supply the new generation of automated grading system Finscan BoardMaster Nova with Vitebsk Sawmill, one of the largest sawmills in the Republic of Belarus. The dry sorting line, with installed automated grading system from Finscan...
Customer experience – Cherepovetsles
Increased speed and quality Cherepovetsles is one of the largest timber companies in the North-West of Russia. Cherepovetsles holding company harvests 1.45 million m³ of round timber and produces 200 000 m³ of sawn timber annually. The company celebrated its 25th...