August 12-17, 1995
Excursion fee/person: FIM 4700
Single room supplement: FIM 800
Saturday, August 12
15:00 Departure from Tampere Hall to Korkeakoski by bus. Modern sawmill in Korkeakoski or Vilppula. Energy production from sawmill waste by mobile crasher technology. Field research station of the University of Helsinki in Hyytiälä. Icebreaker and entertainment with excursion number 5.
Travel distance during the day by bus 120 km.
Accommodation: Hotel Orivesi in Orivesi.
Sunday, August 13
09:00 Departure from Orivesi to Hyytiälä. Academic Forestry Education in Finland. College level education of forestry in Finland. The foundations of new forest machine technology. Demonstration of a walking forest machine. Travel distance during the day by bus 80 km.
Accommodation: Hotel Jämsä in Jämsä.
Monday, August 14
07:30 Departure from Jämsä to Jämsänkoski. The vocational training of forest workers, forest machine operators and forest machine mechanics. Jämsänkoski Forest Machine School. Harvesting technology and methods of self employed forest owners. Modern shortwood harvesting of the United Paper Mills pulp and paper company. Truck transportation of wood. Contemporary wood measurement methods in wood procurement. Wood handling at the pulp mill. World's largest and fastest paper machine in Kaipola.
Architecture exhibition in Alvar Aalto museum in Jyväskylä. Sight seeing tour in Jyväskylä.
Travel distance during the day by bus 80 km.
Accommodation: Hotel Cumulus in Jyväskylä.
Tuesday, August 15
07:30 Departure from Jyväskylä to Keitele and Äänekoski.
Connecting truck transportation and floating of wood. The floating of wood in bundle rafts.The Keitele-Päijänne channel cruise. The wood storages in water. Methods of feeding wood from water to the process. Railway transportation of wood. Wood measurement in a railway car. Äänekoski pulp mill. Energy balance of a pulp mill. Modern process water treatment at the pulp mill. Environmental aspects.
Travel distance during the day by bus 300 km.
Accommodation: Hotel Kimmel in Joensuu.
Wednesday, August 16
08:00 Departure from hotel to the FMG forest machine factory. Manufacturing of shortwood harvesting machinery. Mechanized and manual harvesting of thinnings. Multiple tree handling. Transportation of wood in barges in the Lake Saimaa area. Bioenergy use of low value wood for local heating plant.
Travel distance during the day by bus 200 km.
Accommodation: Hotel Herttua in Kerimäki. Farewell dinner.
Thursday, August 17
08:00 Departure from Kerimäki to Punkaharju.
Forest Information Center and Museum Lusto. Finnish Forest Research Institute's field station and arboretum.
Scenic route of Punkaharju. Museum ship Salama and medieval castle Olavinlinna in Savonlinna.World's largest wooden church in Kerimäki.
Travel distance during the day by bus 60 km.
The tour ends formally in Savonlinna at 18:00 o'clock.
Options for the return arrangements
Bus: The excursion bus (included in the excursion fee) will return to Helsinki where it is about 23:00 at night.
Train: There is a night train connection from Savonlinna to Helsinki where the arrival time on Friday morning is 6:30.
Flight : There is a flight connection from Savonlinna to Helsinki: Departure time 18:15, arrival in Helsinki-Vantaa airport at 19:00 for the connecting international flights.
Bookings for the return travel arrangements, if necessary:
Atlas Matkat/Long Tours Ltd.
tel: +358-0-496066
fax:+358-0-496301
Other information
No need for formal dressing. Trainers or rubber boots and raincoats recommended for field excursions. Delegates are advised to take out their own travel insurance policies.
Organizers
Excursion arrangements: Scientific programme: Congrex, P.O. Box 35 Prof. Esko Mikkonen, Excursion coordinator FIN-00621 Helsinki Finland Dept. of Forest Resource Management tel: +358-0-752 3611 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland fax:+358-0-752 0899 tel: +358-0-1917650, fax: +358-0-1917755 e-mail:saarijl@ajk.tele.fi e-mail: Esko.Mikkonen@Helsinki.FiHotels: The addresses and connections below
Hotel Orivesi: *** Hotel Jämsä:*** Hotel Cumulus:*** Keskustie 40 Kauhkialantie Väinönkatu 3 FIN-35300 Orivesi FIN-42100 Jämsä FIN-40100 Jyväskylä tel. +358-31-334 0666 tel. +358-42-717 91 tel. +358-41-653 211 fax +358-31-334 0667 fax +358-42-717 9350 fax +358-41-653 299 Sokos Hotel Kimmel:**** Hotel Herttua:*** Itäranta 1 FIN-58200 Kerimäki FIN-80100 Joensuu tel. +358-57-575 501 tel. +358-73-1771 fax +358-57-541 331 fax +358-73-177 2112