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Arauco orders new MDF plant in Mexico
Above: Appointment in Santiago de Chile, (from left) José Rojas Opazo (project engineering manager MDF Zitácuaro Arauco), Daniel Hasemann (sales director Siempelkamp South America), Ignacio Garrido (purchasing director Arauco), Jonathan Parisotto (sales director Siempelkamp Brazil), Tito Jara (technical director Arauco), Jürgen Philipps (speaker of the management board Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau), Armando Espinoza Vargas (director of operations Arauco Mexico), Jörg Melin (sales manager Büttner)
The Arauco Group has placed an order for a complete plant for the production of MDF in Mexico.
The order for Siempelkamp, also including a short- cycle press line, will be fulfilled in Zitácuaro in the state of Michoacán, where
Arauco already produces particleboard. It includes a complete plant which covers the entire competence of the Siempelkamp Group from the delivery of the raw material to the finished laminated board.
UPM Plywood division reports
sales decrease in first quarter UPM Plywood has reported a fall in sales for Q1, 2023. The business includes the WISA brand and veneer products for construction, vehicle flooring, LNG shipbuilding, parquet manufacturing and other industrial applications. The division’s sales in Q1, 2023 were €118m, down from €164m a year ago. Operating profits were €12m (Q1, 2022: €-20m). Plywood deliveries for
the period were 117,000m (Q1, 2022: 198,000m). Sales prices continued to
rise in some end uses, with demand in birch-related end-uses reportedly strong. Demand in spruce plywood and veneer was weak and temporary lay-offs were made to adjust operations
to the market demand. In Q1, UPM completed
withdrawal of its business from Russia by selling all its Russian operations, including UPM Chudovo plywood mill. UPM’s €10m investment in the development of the plywood mill in Joensuu, Finland will be completed by the end of 2023. This includes two new production lines, new workspaces and 720m2
new production space. “Right now, we are in the process of transferring production from the old lines to the new ones, and during April, the first customers will receive WISA-Trans and WISA-Wire vehicle flooring panels made on the new lines,” explained production manager Antti Pitkänen.
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The scope of supply starts with the truck unloading, the silo discharge systems, mechanical and pneumatic conveyors.
Siempelkamp subsidiaries
CMC Texpan and Pallmann contribute the screening and size reduction technology.
Büttner will supply the dryer as well as the energy plant and was particularly convincing with its technical possibilities in the area of energy savings. The order volume also includes the sifter system, gluing with EcoResinator, a forming and press line with ContiRoll in the 8ft x 33.8m format and complete press extraction system. The delivery spectrum is rounded off by the complete finishing line with cooling and stacking, two storage types, a sanding line with cut-to-size saw and a packaging line as well.
Siempelkamp’s solutions for “Production Intelligence” are also integrated in the plant concept for Arauco, with the digital control system Prod-IQ contributing to the optimisation of production processes. The second system, a short-
cycle press, will be integrated into the finishing concept. Installation is scheduled for 2024/2025.
Wood-based Panel Symposium
remains in Hamburg for 2024 After the success of the 12th European Wood-based Panel Symposium in October 2022, organisers have announced that the event will remain in Hamburg for the 2024 edition. The 2022 event attracted 320 participants from Germany and abroad at the Grand Elysée Hotel in Hamburg.
The organisers – the of
Fraunhofer WKI and the European Panel Federation (EPF) in co-operation with the iVTH and the company Hywax GmbH – decided to repeat the winning combination for the 13th Symposium in 2024. The dates will be October 9-11, 2024. Fee-based registration for
the event can be completed from October 1, 2023
onwards via the established event website www. european-wood-based-panel-
symposium.org. Experts in the wood-based panels industry interested in giving a presentation or exhibiting a poster are able to submit an abstract online in English from the end of October 2023. The deadline for applications is February 29, 2024. Evaluating the submitted presentations will be the following: Prof Dr Joachim Hasch (SwissKrono), Larissa Kuntz (elka-Holzwerke), Tito Jara (Arauco), Prof Dr Ing Bohumil Kasal (Fraunhofer WKI), Prof Dr Rainer Marutzky (iVTH), Anemon Strohmeyer (VHI) and Kris Wijnendaele (EPF).
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