30 | Focus on Italy Part One: CMC Texpan
A LEANER AND KEENER FUTURE
CMC Texpan of Colzate, Italy, has been at the forefront of wood preparation technology
for the global panel industry for over 60 years. Mike Botting spoke to its managing director about the company’s products; and its future plans
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MC Texpan’s speciality has always been at the front end of the panel production line and its product range today includes: chip and particle handling; chip cleaners; extraction systems; magnetic separators; roller separators; gravimetric separators; oscillating screens; glue blending; and forming lines. The company was founded in 1962 by Ing
Dario Zoppetti. Gradually, from 2010, the company became part of the Siempelkamp group, a long-standing customer of CMC, with the takeover being completed in 2013, when Mr Zoppetti retired. WBPI interviewed Alessandro Brembilla, who has worked for the company for 18 years in technical, then sales, roles and today is its managing director.
WBPI: What is exciting you about the future for CMC Texpan? Alessandro Brembilla: CMC Texpan is a vibrant, forward-looking company with room for improvement. Research and discovery of new products excites me most of all. We have many initiatives under way and we are also planning a modernisation effort, which will make us more competitive.
WBPI: What is the current market like for CMC’s products? AB: The main market is the established wood-based panel industry, but we are expanding our business into other markets where we can use the same machines. We are also exploring, as we have always done, different sectors where we build machines according to the customers’ unique specifications. We have also created a laboratory area where we test prototypes developed in the R&D department and then we can show them to potential customers.
WBPI: What are the challenges for the company in the market, now and in the future? AB: The biggest challenge is to increase our sales, differentiate our markets and have a steady growth year after year.
WBPI: What was the turnover of CMC like in 2022/23 and how did it compare with 2021/22? AB: Although markets are down at this time, the current year will be better than the last one.
WBPI: We have previously reported on the LYNX cleaning tower system, employing SWIR (short wave infra-red) technology, in WBPI, in 2021 and 2022 [October/November 2022]. Has there been any further development of the system since then? How has the market responded to LYNX? What was the driving force behind the invention of the LYNX system? What are its advantages? How does it, and other CMC equipment, fit into your chip cleaning tower concept? AB: Cleaning towers are an efficient, compact and modular solution for the complete processing of recycled wood chips. For this requirement, LYNX integrates very well as it allows the removal of contaminants from the continuous flow of recycled material. CMC Texpan always tries to enhance and suit the LYNX system to any request or need of our customer. As it is a versatile machine, it can be equipped with different accessories. Thanks also to its compact design, LYNX can easily be installed in existing plants.
Above: CMC’s glue kitchen WBPI | August/September 2023 |
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WBPI: I know that glue blending is an important part of CMC’s product range. Formaldehyde emissions obviously continue to be an important focus for the panel industry. How has CMC addressed the issue of formaldehyde emissions in its glue blending systems? Also, the cost of glue is important to the industry. How has CMC addressed this in terms of more economic use of glues? AB: Formaldehyde emissions are a very important global issue, which CMC is addressing from both environmental and technological considerations, as well as economic aspects. These three factors are closely related and CMC Texpan is making a concerted effort in facing up to these different, and sometimes conflicting, requirements. Our R&D department, in collaboration with our subsidiaries and the knowledge and synergy of the Siempelkamp group, is developing and perfecting new systems.
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