Quality
Wood procurement
Forest owners are crucial partners for us. Trust and long-term collaboration are among our values and our partnerships with private forest owners often extends over generations.
Our experts at your service
Our procurement supervisors handle the whole process of wood procurement starting from purchasing of timber and marking the best poles in the forest to deliveries at production facilities.
There are different approaches to timber procurement available. In Finland, for example, we can purchase trees prior to logging and we also handle the logging and transport of timber. The forest owner can also sell logged trees in accordance with specified criteria and transport the logs to the roadside.
Chain of Custody
Our wood procurement complies with the principles of sustainable development. The Chain of Custody of PEFC-certified timber ensures that the timber we use has been sourced from sustainably managed forests. Iivari Mononen Group has Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (certificate number PEFC/02-44-24), which ensures environmental considerations and responsibility in timber harvesting and sourcing of timber.
Locally sourced raw materials
We source raw materials as close to our production plants as possible in order to minimise the transport distances. In Finland, our wood sourcing activities are focused on the North Karelia, North Savo, Central Finland and Kainuu regions.
In Norway, the wood raw material used at the Ilseng and Kirkenaer plants is sourced from the counties of Akershus, Buskerud, Innlandet, Telemark, Vestfold and Vestaland.
Responsible operations and continuous development
Our environment management system and a set of high standards demonstrate our consistent work in considering the environment.
Scanpole’s environment programme is part of the company’s ISO 14001 certified environment management system. It advances and manages our operations systematically with environmental considerations.
In addition to wood procurement, our certification covers the manufacture, impregnation and sales of wooden poles and impregnated timber products in Joensuu (Finland), Ilseng (Norway), Kilteel (Ireland) and Newport (UK).
