Mar 06, 2015. /Lesprom Network/. Tornator Eesti OÜ, the Estonian subsidiary of the Finnish forestry company Tornator Oyj, buys 7,500 hectares of forestland from the Swedish-owned AS Metsnik. With nearly 50,000 hectares of agricultural and forestry land in Estonia, Tornator is the country's largest private landowner, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Tornator Eesti OÜ grows forests and sells harvesting rights to local buyers, mainly harvesting companies. It provides work to five local employees and a number of regular contractors. In 2014, the Estonian operations generated some Euro 1.8 million in sales. Country Manager in Tallinn is Riido Rosin.

Tornator owns about 600,000 hectares of forestland in Finland, and in Romania the company manages, besides the 12,000 hectares of its own forests, some 18,000 hectares of other owners' forests.