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September 7, 2026

Versowood at 80: “The sawmill industry has never been easy, but we have survived everything”

Versowood has marked its 80th anniversary with a blunt message about the business that built it: lumber markets do not reward comfort, and survival depends on changing with them. From a single sawmill established in Vierumäki in 1946, the company has become Finland’s largest privately owned wood-processing group, selling its products across more than 60 countries while continuing to invest in an industry many competitors have treated as structurally unattractive.

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