About us
Investors
Raute aims to ensure competitive returns for its investors. From the investor section you find Raute’s financial information as well as information about shares, investor relations, Raute’s governance and Raute as an investment.
Sustainability
We want to lead the industry towards a more sustainable future in engineered wood products.
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Lines & Machines
Lines
There is always a "fit-to-your-need" line from Raute's own offering for any and all production processes starting from log handling, running through veneer production to plywood, LVL, or solid wood panels.
Machines
The core of production lines is made of machines. Many of Raute’s machines can be installed into existing lines as modernizations, also to other brand but Raute lines.
Analyzers
Making the most out of your raw material is made possible by modern analyzing systems. Intelligent analyzers make the right decisions at right time. Raute offers a wide variety of different types of analyzers for veneer, plywood, LVL, and lumber production.
Future-proof your mill.
Raute offers services worldwide to maintain existing veneer, plywood, and LVL production machinery and to improve the production.
Mill Audits are made to keep you on track at every point of production. Audits provide you with valuable business data and knowledge that lead to detailed production improvement.
Let’s picture a scenario: The business development unit has come to the crossroads of how to improve the mill’s operation in the growing and highly competitive wood product production market. They know that to answer the competition they need to produce more products, more efficiently, or cut costs but they don’t know how to do that or where to start. This is the moment to contact a trusted, experienced expert.
The situation might be as described, or the mill’s representative just wants an external valuation of how the production in the mill works and if they can find something to improve.
This is where the mill audit starts.
Why Mill Audit?
There’s usually a valid reason to audit. It might be changing circumstances in the business, raw material deliveries, or the producer wanting to increase the end-product's value.
A mill audit done by an external expert is the most objective way to gain information affecting the business and help with the right business choices.
Recent times have shown that the rapid changes in the world affect majorly to veneer production globally.
The changes have led the producers to consider how the products can be sold despite increased production costs, and they won’t get the price needed per product. This has led to seeking enhancement actions to the cost structure.
A Mill Audit considers various factors that are affecting production efficiency entirely. A Mill Audit goes through raw material usage, workforce efficiency and automation, lowering the production costs, and more aiming to make suggestions on how to lower the total costs.
The same applies when the producer wants to increase the processing value of the product. The audit seeks and finds ways to make the product more profitable and better, improving the producer’s position on the market.
From forest to the client – How is a Mill Audit done
The information gathering is a key metric for a successful mill audit. A typical mill audit takes from four to five business days at the client’s mill site. During the auditing days, the whole production process is inspected thoroughly from acquiring the raw material to the client’s client.
Not only the raw material and product itself are audited but also the local conditions, staff, infrastructure, and logistics are taken into consideration. During the auditing days, the experts gain information also on the business KPIs, reporting systems and practices. Every variable affects the result.
The Mill Audit Report consists of the expert opinion based on the information gathered during the audit, documentation, and interviews with the managing personnel and the employees.
The report is a thorough tool to make corrective or optimizing decisions. Based on the audit and the objective expert take on the business, the client can make the best solutions possible to enhance their production processes in the short and long run.
How is a Mill Audit effective for the process?
A Mill Audit always aims to optimize production, process, business, or objectively search for solutions to difficulties or changing situations. The audit acts as a fundamental tool for business development and budgeting.
The objective external findings are a base for the management team to make enhancive production changes – the outcome is not just an opinion but an expert view of the complete case. This view is something to firmly rely on.
Raute Mill Audits are always carried out with an objective perspective, no matter the functionalities or machinery of the mill. You can read more about Raute Mill Audits on our website. Follow this link to learn how Raute Mill Audits are carried out and what is included: https://www.raute.com/services/training-development/audits/.
Pekka JuutistenahoBachelor of Engineering, Wood TechnologyPlywood Production Expert
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