Creating history. Together.

Our aim is to earn our company a place in the history books. However, we can’t achieve this goal all by ourselves. History is made by people in different companies all working together – it’s a team effort.

Vankkapuu as a partner

Vankkapuu is a trustworthy and fair partner with a genuine focus on the development of its customers’ operations. Vankkapuu earns its customers’ trust by ensuring employee well-being, establishing long customer relationships and maintaining a local presence.

At Vankkapuu, responsibility covers not only environmental issues but also staff well-being, the monitoring of customers’ key responsibility figures, long-term development activities and process planning based on Lean principles.

Our customer relationships and partnerships are built on four factors: return on investment, responsibility, reliability and flexibility.

Return on Investment

1. We are committed to and focused on each individual customer’s needs.

2. We offer seamless compatibility with customer processes, which has a direct impact on total investment.

3. Our delivery reliability is always first class.

4. We are always ready to invest in premises in the immediate vicinity of our customers’ sites.

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Responsibility

1. We are dedicated to investing in our staff in a holistic manner.

2. We monitor and systematically improve our customers’ key responsibility figures.

3. We apply Lean processes and operating models.

4. We support society in the areas in which we operate as well as the country in general.

Reliability

1. We keep our promises.

2. We train our staff with customer needs in mind.

3. We have worked with our partners for decades.

4. Our value proposition is based on transparency, fairness and reliability.

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Flexibility

1. We ensure 24/7 accessibility.

2. We apply agile ERP and are responsive to change.

3. Our innovative product development is based on customer requirements.

4. We have the capacity to make necessary changes to develop collaborative activities.

Products

Motivated employees together with state-of-the-art production equipment ensure that we can offer reliable and flexible service to our customers. We continuously develop our operating models and production lines.

Our main products are pallets, roll caps, recycled cores for rolled paperboard and processed wood products.

Our Joutseno plant can also manufacture and customise high-quality planed products from Finnish sawn timber, such as interior wall panels and floorboards, if our customers lack the resources to do so in-house.

Pallets

We manufacture various single-use industrial pallets at our Simpele plant. The products are made to order according to our customers’ specifications. Our pallets meet the requirements of the ISPM 15 standard and are made entirely using Finnish timber.

Our manufacturing capacity is approx. 300,000 pallets/shift/year.

Core plugs

We manufacture core plugs for the ends of paperboard rolls at our Simpele plant, mainly for the paper and board industry. Plugs are made of MDF, softwood pylood or birch plywood with a thickness range of 18 to 21 mm.

Our product range includes caps with diameters from 70 to 310 mm. Caps can also be made in custom sizes.

Our manufacturing capacity is approx. 300,000 caps/shift/year.

Recycled cores for rolled paperboard

We also recycle cores for rolled paperboard at our Simpele plant.

We collect the used cut to length cores from the sheeting plant and join them again to full length. We can join cores with a diameter of 150-350 mm up to a length of 6600 mm

The capacity of one shift is approx. 100,000 m of recycled cores per year.

Further processed wood products

At our Joutseno plant, we turn Finnish sawn timber into high-quality planed products. Planed timber products, interior wall panels and floorboards are sorted after planing according to customer specifications or RT card guidelines.

In addition to standard profiles, we can also quickly plane customer-specific profiles. We can also produce various surface qualities in addition to the normal smooth planed and fine-sawn finishes. We also make a lot of micro-grooved and brushed products.

Planed products can be tongued and grooved or cut to size and are bundled and shrink-wrapped for delivery. Industrial surface treatment of cladding is carried out by our partner principle.

References

We have been manufacturing single-use pallets for Metsä Board’s Simpele mill for almost 40 years. Every day we manufacture pallets in dozens of different sizes at our Simpele factory, with batch sizes ranging from 1 to 400.

Pallets are delivered on the agreed date, usually within 12 hours of an order being placed. Thanks to our in-house tool service, we are able to produce customer-specific profiles at reasonable prices and with quick delivery times.

We are responsible for the supply of the cores at Metsä Board's Simpele mill and we ensure that enough cores are available for the mill's automatic core cutter at all times. We collect the used cut to lenght cores from the sheetin plant and restore them into full-size cores. We return the recycled cores to the Metsä Board mill together with new cores. Recycling cores reduces the amount of waste going to incineration, and Metsä Board can cut the costs of purchasing cores.

Thanks to our in-house tool service, we are able to produce customer-specific profiles at reasonable prices and with quick delivery times.

We have been a subcontractor to Puumerkki Oy since 2007, manufacturing various planed products, mainly interior wall panels, for the company. Wide interior cladding and log panels are products in which we have particular expertise.

Thanks to our in-house blade service, we are able to produce customer-specific profiles at reasonable prices and with quick delivery times. We pack finished products as specified by Puumerkki.

Our location in the immediate vicinity of Puumerkki’s logistics centre guarantees fast and cost-effective deliveries across Finland. Continuous product development in collaboration with the largest timber wholesaler in Finland ensures