Our areas of expertise:

• Forestry machinery manufacturing, utilisation of logging methods and technologies
• The world’s leading business cluster for the manufacturing of forest sector machinery
• Wood procurement management, decision-making, and guidance related to the production of forest energy and wood products
• Development of working methods, tools, and machines for silviculture and harvesting
• Forest machine work research and development (e.g. occupational health of harvester drivers, and how they cope at work)
• Economic and social sustainability of forest use
• Utilisation of photonics in forest machinery and remote sensing as a part of damage detection

Our areas of expertise:

• Biobased, high added value products, materials and production technology
• Development of replacement raw materials for e.g. plastic and peat
• Increasing the degree of peat processing (abandonment of energy use)
• New uses for wood and its various parts
• New products (food, medicines, clothing, cosmetics, well-being), developing necessary technologies and making them economically viable
• International business and so-called Born Global companies
• Developing business models based on value chains

Our areas of expertise:

• Raw material chains for biorefining, utilisation of side streams, increasing value chains, and refining technologies
• Impact of the structure and properties of timber assortment on the raw material and energy wood raw material chains of production plants
• Developing better technical solutions
• Biodiesel, biogas and their development from by-products and waste
• Political and administrative conditions for decentralised energy production

Our areas of expertise:

• Refining of the material and immaterial value of forests and matching of their different forms of use
• Nature tourism, recreation, use of forests to promote public health and prevent exclusion
• Non-wood products, new non-wood business
• Impacts of forestry on the multipurpose uses of forests
• Protected areas and multipurpose use
• Ecosystem services and their safeguarding
• Valuing different environmental services in forests as a part of the total economic value of forests
• Cost-effective protection of endangered forest species

Our areas of expertise:

• Service activities based on electronic forest information and other wide-ranging utilisation of databanks
• Open forest information and its possibilities
• Photonics and its possibilities in remote sensing of forest damage, for example
• Development of remote sensing methods (cost/accuracy)
• Involving citizens' knowledge and civic science (e.g. recording citizens' observations in electronic geospatial data)

Our areas of expertise:

• Distributed energy production and hybrid solutions that are based on renewable energy sources
• Biodiesel and biogas production
• Potential for decentralised energy generation: Raw materials, technology, cost-effectiveness
• Cleaning of sapling stands and young forest management – raw material for whole tree chips – value chains and business connections, the impact of wood material quality on energy
• Carbon neutrality and climate resilience in energy production and construction
• Knowledge environments and demonstration targets for wood construction
• Carbon balance in wood construction: Impact of raw material on carbon sinks and storage, emissions during construction
• The health of buildings and its impact on human health and well-being
• Climate impacts during the life cycle of a building and the utilisation of demolition waste