Wall, Tapio

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• properties and quality of thinning wood
• further processing of sawn timber
• value formation of logging stands
• bucking
• timber scaling
• official duties of timber measurement

Research Projects

Current

• Assessing quantity, quality and value of wood raw-material for timber trade and procurement
  
• Control of vertebrate damages in forestry
  
• Official tasks of wood measuring
  
• Raw material potentials, properties, suitability and competitiveness of Scots pine and Norway spruce in wood product industries
  

Former

• Development of Forest Sector in Northwest Russia and its impact in Finland
  
• Development of procurement and saw milling of Scots pine from thinnings
  
• Factors for the wood and timber quality of Scots pine
  
• Novel upgraded products of mechanical wood processing
  
• Quality and value of timber from drained peatlands for end-use oriented forest industries
  
• Quality, measurement and procurement of wood raw materials in specializing timber utilization
  
• Russia in flux - impacts of changes in forest and economic policy and business preconditions in Russia and Finland
  
• Value formation of timber stands when targeting for alternative end-products in timber harvesting
  

Contacts

Keywords: bucking, further processing, marked timber stand, thinning wood, timber assortments, timber scaling, wood procurement, wood product industries, wood properties, wood quality