Three months ago I arrived in Vancouver, Canada, to become the managing director of Valutec Wood Drying Inc.

Valutec has recruited Timo Kanerva to the management post at Valutec LLC, with registered offices in St. Petersburg.

New high capacity TC continuous kilns are right now being planned and built all over Europe. In Germany, multinational company Egger is building Central Europe's first TC-kiln. Also, two major Scandinavian sawmills have invested in larger TC kilns.

It's almost a year since we at Valutec launched our North American subsidiary Valutec Wood Dryers Inc, in Vancouver, British Columbia. During that time, we’ve made sure to learn more about the specific challenges that sawmills in North America face when it comes to everything related with the wood drying process.