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BRAZIL ADDS MAJOR PLANT AT CURITIBA Brazil’s particleboard industry has received a major boost with the completion of a new US$30m plant at Curitiba in the southern state of Parana.
Berneck Aglomerados, an integrated forestry and wood products company, has installed a 1,000m3
to produce 6.15mm x 2500mm board. In its first stage the line will operate at half its three-shift capacity, or 500m3 will be reached in stage two.
/day Siempelkamp particleboard line,
claimed to be the biggest so far in Latin America. Completed in late February, it includes an 8-daylight press designed
/day. Full production
A substantial number of new jobs will be created, said Berneck. The plant, which is fully integrated with a sawmill, is fed with slash and loblolly pine wood supplied from the company’s own southern pine plantations. The sawmill is equipped with chipper-canters installed by Moosmayer-Linck.
A proportion of the finished board will be surfaced with natural sliced
hardwood veneers, while a part will be finished foil. Berneck’s own sliced and rotary veneer plants will supply the new line with the surface material.
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EUROPEAN PANEL SECTOR WARNED ABOUT ADDITIONAL CAPACITY PLANS The European wood-based panels sector risks reduced future profitability as a result of 10 million m3
of additional capacity currently
being planned, consultants warn in a new report. Pöyry Management Consulting questions whether the additional panel capacity is being built in the right place, at the right time, or even to produce the right products. “Our new market model has identified a mismatch between industry
investment plans and market requirements, which will lead to declining prices for some panels and markets but rising prices for others,” said Dr Cormac O’Carroll, global head of Pöyry Wood Products Practice. “While the planned new investments all make economic sense individually, generating at least 9% internal rate of return, their overall impact will be to reduce industry profitability.” Pöyry’s report, “The Future of the Wood Based Panels Industry
in Europe”, says the geographical distribution of planned new particleboard capacity was not optimal. German plant investments, it argues, would be better if they led to a lower net capacity for the region.
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