Thursday, September 11, 2025
MiCROTEC is excited to announce its collaboration with Södra Wood as the prominent Scandinavian forestry cooperative chooses to invest in a MiCROTEC Goldeneye Transverse solution for their Värö mill. Södra’s Värö sawmill is one of the largest in Sweden and a pioneer in sustainable wood production. It will be equipped with the new Goldeneye Transverse, presented at Ligna 2025 in Hannover. This solution enables four-sided scanning at a record speed of 240 boards per minute.
The Goldeneye Transverse performs strength grading according to EN 14081. This installation uses MiCROTEC’s Reduced Shadow Chain Conveyor, which minimizes occluded areas in the images, making Södra the first to use this patented technology for certified strength grading.
It also enables grading according to ALS/NGR standards to classify US Number 2 without requiring additional equipment like end cameras. The new Pith Finder feature makes highly accurate grading according to ALS/NGR standards possible. Based on data from CT Log, the world’s only CT scanner for logs, this feature enhances knot displacement calculations by estimating the pith’s position along the entire board. It utilises visual information from all four sides of the board to determine the pith location, ensuring the most precise knot displacement calculation available on the market.
In addition to the Reduced Shadow Chain Conveyor, Södra is the first customer worldwide to implement MiCROTEC’s new AI-powered inpainting feature. This innovative function uses artificial intelligence to reconstruct parts of board images that are obscured by conveyor chains, enabling gapless scanning without the need for additional hardware.
“Södra Wood Värö chooses MiCROTEC and Goldeneye because they are at the absolute forefront when it comes to scanner technology for sawn and planed wood products. We look forward to a value-creating collaboration”, says Kerstin Jonasson, Sawmill Manager Södra Wood Värö.
With this installation, Södra continues to lead the way in sawmill technology and digital innovation, while MiCROTEC once again demonstrates its dedication to advancing the future of wood scanning and AI integration, with this project being the 100th Goldeneye Transverse sold. The installation of the project is scheduled to take place by the end of 2025.
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MiCROTEC is the only company offering comprehensive scanning & optimisation solutions for the complete wood processing industry – always committed to providing customers with the most valuable & sustainable wood utilisation. As a global technology partner for the wood processing industry, the MiCROTEC team is constantly developing new approaches and solutions to add value to the sawmilling and wood processing industry. MiCROTEC has been setting the standards in this market since 1980.
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