KUUTIO Online timber marketplace

KUUTIO Online timber marketplace

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KUUTIO® is an open and independent timber marketplace for forest owners, timber buyers, intermediaries such as forest management associations and other forest service providers.

Third party digital service Kuutio brings together forest owners, wood buyers and other service providers in a digital environment. Kuutio.fi enables asking bids from wood procurement companies, when a private forest owner wants to sell wood. The service is developed by Suomen Puukauppa Oy, which was founded by all the major actors in the forest sector. Involved are Stora Enso, UPM and Metsä Group among almost all of the smaller saw mills. Kuutio is fully functional in any role of forestry professionals either through a browser interface or the company’s own forest system as long as it has been set up with a Kuutio connection.

Actual sales are made outside the service, Kuutio only acts as a go-between wood buyers and sellers. In most cases it is still required to do some field work and validate the information provided by system by visiting the stand marked for harvesting. All parties of wood trade benefit from Kuutio because sellers and buyers are able find each other more easily than before. The service utilizes public forest details from the Metsäkeskus database Metsään .fi and improves the functionality of wood trade. Kuutio paves the way to wood trade especially for those who are not the most at ease when it comes to taking care of their forestry property. Kuutio is targeted to all Finnish forest owners and they can use the service for free.

Trätyp
Rundvirke
Vedens ursprung
Skog
Mobiliseringspotential
Not possible to assess
Typ av trä
Stemwood
Hållbarhets potential
Positive
Påverkan på miljö & biologisk mångfald

Positive

Enkel implementering
Easy
ekonomisk påverkan
Better communication between forest owners and companies
Effekt antal anställda
Positive
Ekonomisk effekt
Positive
Specifika kunskapsbehov
Knowledge in silviculture and handling with IT-tools
Nyckel förutsättningar

Online timber marketplace

Huvud domän
Skogsförvaltning, skogskjötsel, ekosystemtjänster
Produkter, marknad, handel
Utmaning som adresseras
3. Aktivera privata ägare och kooperativ skogsförvaltning
Type av lösning
Marknadsföringsplattform
Digital lösning
Ja
Innovasion
Nej
Upphovsland
Finland
Potential
Nationell
Start och slutår
-
Kontakt informasion
Ägare eller författare
Suomen Puukauppa Oy
References and Resources
Projekt som detta factsheet skapats inom
Rosewood