Exporters database Wood
Wood 
- Working languages
- Estonian
- English
- Russian
- Finnish
- Swedish
- German
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- French
- Spanish
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Number of employees
- 1 - 10
- 11 - 50
- 51 - 250
- More than 251
- Sectors
- Manufacturing
- Chemicals & chemical products
- Cosmetics
- Ferilizer
- Organic
- Clothing and Textile
- Clothing
- Footwear
- Leather clothes
- Textile
- Finishing of textiles
- Household linens
- Weaving of textiles
- Construction materials
- Electronics and Optics
- Electronic components and boards
- Optical instruments and photographic equipment
- Food and Beverage
- Beverage
- Food
- Bakery and confectionery products
- Dairy products
- Fish, crustaceans and molluscs in the processing and preservation
- Meat processing and preserving of meat products
- Other food products
- Sweets & snack food
- Furniture
- Bathroom/sauna furniture
- Bedroom furniture
- Children’s room furniture
- Kitchen furniture
- Living-room furniture
- Office and shop furniture
- Other furniture
- Outdoor furniture
- Glass & glass products
- Machinery
- Building of ships and boats
- Aluminium and steel workboats
- Boat/Yacht building
- Machinery components
- Machinery equipment/tools
- Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
- Metalworking
- Construction of metal structures
- Forging, pressing, stamping, roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy
- CNC-machining
- Forgings, Fasteners
- Gas, Plasma, Laser cutting
- MIG, TIG, Aluminum welding
- Houses and buildings
- Manufacture of structural metal products
- Other fabricated metal products
- Mining
- Packaging
- Plastic products
- Plastic plates, sheets, tubes and profiles
- Printing
- Book/Periodicals printing
- Printed advertising materials
- Wood
- Firewood
- Prefabricated buildings of wood and elements
- Products of wood, cork, straw and plaiting materials
- Sawn wood
- Specialised construction activities
- Veneer sheets, wood-based panels
- Wooden doors, windows, shutters and frames
- Service
- Business services
- Advertising and design activities
- Cleaning activities
- Engineering agencies
- Interior design, architecture
- Legal activities
- Medical services
- Translation services
- Energy technology
- Bioenergy
- Solar power
- Wind power
- Wind turbine generators
- Information Technology and Telecommunications
- Computer programming and consultancy activities
- Data processing, hosting, web portals, e-marketing
- Software, hardware
- Telecommunications
- Transport and Logistics
- Air transport
- Rail and road transport
- Rail transport
- Water transport
- Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
- Desirable export markets
- Africa
- Asia
- Central Europe
- Europe
- European Union 27
- Middle East
- North America
- Australia and Oceania
- Scandinavia
- South America
- Cooperation opportunities
- Distributors
- Foreign investors
- Franchise & Licensing opportunities
- Joint-venture partners
- Other
- Resellers
- Subcontracts
Besides the food processing industry, the wood industry is one of the largest industry sectors in Estonia. Over 1,000 enterprises employing approximately 13,000 people are engaged in wood processing and the production of wood products. Enterprises are located in various places all over Estonia, mainly in rural areas. Larger enterprises are concentrated in Pärnu, Järva, Tartu, Viljandi and Võru counties. Enterprises located on the islands are smaller than the average.
The range of wood industry products is extensive, starting from the production and treatment of sawn timber to the production of wooden houses, windows and doors. The majority of employees are employed in the veneer production enterprise Balti Spoon OÜ, veneer product producer AS Technomar & Adrem and board producer AS Repo Vabrikud. The largest veneer producer is UPM Kymmene Otepää. Larger sawmills include the Stora Enso Eesti AS and AS Toftan.
The average sales turnover of the sector was 160 million EUR in the first half of 2009.
The average export turnover was 96 million EUR. In 2009, export was divided among the main export countries as follows: Finland (16.5%), Sweden (14%), Germany (13%), Norway (9%), Denmark (8%) and Japan (6%). The main groups of export articles included construction components (26%), sawn timber (22%), prefabricated buildings (17%), untreated timber (8%) and profiled timber (8%).
