Drying is the last and hardest step in processing timber, and the one that takes the most energy. The discovery behind Alent Dynamic was an accident. Eric Björkman had been chasing a better drying process for forty years when a rusty water container fell into a control system he had installed at a sawmill outside Luleå. The program started switching on and off in intervals. He assumed the timber was ruined. It was the best he had seen.

The patented interval drying works on the same principle. The timber is put under far less stress, dries faster and uses less electricity. Sawmills get fewer end cracks, less warping and less discolouration, which means less scrapped material and fewer shipments of timber the end customer would have thrown away anyway.

The method is established across every major European market, with customers in sixteen countries from Finland to Chile and Australia. The company is based in Luleå.