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
Whether your industry is veneer, plywood or LVL, 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 or LVL.
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.
Raute’s customers are the producers of veneer, plywood and LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber). Their products are typically used in construction, housing-related consumption, international trade and transportation.
Raute is operating in a new business environment, leveraging the good market demand especially in EMEA, and North and Latin America. In 2022, Raute – as many other global companies – witnessed the end of an era when operating in Russia needed to be re-evaluated. At the same time, wood construction and veneer-based products continued to grow in popularity globally. Investment activity among Raute’s customers continued steady. The company’s order book remained on a reasonable level, and demand for technology and maintenance services was good.
Market situation in the global economy remained uncertain due to the Russian invasion, difficulties in component availability, and higher inflation. Still, Raute succeeded in increasing the sales of mid-sized single production line modernizations and technology services during the year. This followed the customer trend of improving the performance of existing production solutions.
In traditional markets, there was active search for new solutions to improve profitability and resourceefficiency. EMEA demand was good, and customers continued their efforts to increase capacity to fill the gap left by declined imports. North America remained active in regard to the overall Raute offering, and demand for new process automation, modernization, and services was especially good.
In emerging markets, the continued fast urbanization increased the demand for sustainable solutions made of wood. Markets in Latin America developed positively thanks to good raw material availability. Activity in Asian markets and China continued to recover from the extended downturn caused by COVID-19.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the resulting sanctions have had a significant impact on Raute’s business operations, as Raute had ongoing projects for several different Russian customers. In March 2022, Raute announced it had stopped entering into new contracts with Russian parties and started a controlled wind-down of Russian operations which continues into 2023 with remaining final deliveries. In the end of 2022, the remaining order book for Russia was 4 MEUR.
Plywood and LVL industry’s market close to EUR 50 billion a year.
Investments in veneer, plywood and LVL production technology under normal market conditions close to EUR 1 billion a year.
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