Verkasalo, Erkki

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Professor

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Expertise

• wood science and technology
• wood products materials and measurements
• value chains of wood products and forest energy
• wood and timber properties and quality
• potentials and uses of wood raw materials
• timber measurement and grading
• support to development work of wood using industries (esp. small and medium scale sector)
• utilisation of pine and birch in wood product industries
• wood raw materials from peatland forests and thinnings

Research Projects

Current

• Assessing quantity, quality and value of wood raw-material for timber trade and procurement
  
• Control of vertebrate damages in forestry
  
• Coordination of PUU-programme
  
• Effect of forest management on wood properties
  
• Metti WoodSci, Collaboration Network of Metla and UEF
  
• Official tasks of wood measuring
  
• Raw material potentials, properties, suitability and competitiveness of Scots pine and Norway spruce in wood product industries
  
• Russia as an operational environment for forest sector and as a market competitor for forest industries
  

Former

• Raw material properties and measurement of forest-based biomaterials
  
• Broadening and increasing wood utilisation
  
• Co-ordination and extension of the research programme "Potentials for the utilisation of roundwood and wood raw materials in relation to the wood product markets"
  
• Competitive properties and mechanical further processing of boreal pine wood
  
• Coordination of the Research programme of the ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Developing the Pinus Sylvestris L Resource
  
• Development of Forest Sector in Northwest Russia and its impact in Finland
  
• Development of procurement and saw milling of Scots pine from thinnings
  
• Diversifying hardwood utilisation
  
• Energy wood measurement for quantity and quality
  
• Factors for the wood and timber quality of Scots pine
  
• Larch as rawmaterial for joinery industry
  
• New wood product solutions and their competitiveness
  
• Novel upgraded products of mechanical wood processing
  
• Properties, quality and measurement of wood raw materials in relation to the intensity of forest production
  
• 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
  
• Silviculture of hardwoods
  
• Structure and properties of wood
  
• The effect of treatments of thinning stands on the growth, yield and economic results
  
• Timber Scaling
  
• Timber scaling for quantity and quality
  
• Value formation of timber stands when targeting for alternative end-products in timber harvesting
  

Contacts

Keywords: SME sector, birch, forest energy, pine, product development, raw materials, science and technology, timber measurement and grading, value chains, wood product industries, wood quality