ABOUT NORDWOOD
NORDWOOD is a joint trademark of four wood industry companies – AS Viiratsi Saeveski, AS Viru-Nigula Saeveski, AS Aegviidu Puit, and THUKA NORDWOOD AS. We produce sawn timber from locally sourced Nordic pine and spruce logs. Our sawn timber is used both in Estonia and on export markets – in construction, as well as raw material for the furniture, packaging, and wood industries. Under the NORDWOOD brand, approximately 285,000 m³ of sawn timber is produced annually. The acquisition of Flexa Eesti (now THUKA NORDWOOD AS), together with the internationally recognized Thuka brand, marked the beginning of our furniture industry direction.
The parent companies of the sawmills are RAIT AS and LEMEKS AS who are based on Estonian capital and who have successfully operated as wood industry groups for more than 30 years and who employ approximately 1000 employees. The companies are oriented to export and operate in different markets in Europe, Asia, Australia. The most well-known trademarks of the wood industry groups are Raitwood, Parkwood, Palmako, Imprest, Pinest, AP Mets, Lemeks, Nordwood and Thuka
Values
The main emphasis of our activities lies on credibility towards the customers, cooperation partners as well as employees. This also forms the basis for the stable quality of our production, innovation and customer-orientation.
We pursue the best quality in our work and we ensure it by using the state of the art technology and the skillful team dedicated to its work. We regard comprehensive development and valuing of our employees very important. It enables us to offer our customers the most appropriate production.
We value the ambient environment and consider environmentally sustainable thinking important. Our activities follow the principles of sustainable management.
We consider it important to be open to new ideas and innovative solutions. Our goal is to develop industry based on local raw material by using the modern effective technologies for that.
HISTORY
Although the sawmills have been producing sawn timber for over 30 years, the beginning of NORDWOOD is considered to be the year 2002, when AS Rait and AS Lemeks decided to establish a joint company, AS Viiratsi Saeveski, by acquiring the assets of a sawmill in Vana-Võidu, Viljandi. AS Aegviidu Puit joined the group in 2009, followed by AS Viru-Nigula Saeveski in 2012 and THUKA NORDWOOD in 2025.