12 | Focus on particleboard: Part 1
And the Tableros Hispanos plant which produced its first board in October 2019, featuring a Dieffenbacher CPS+ continuous press, has now been added to the main listing with the correct company name (formerly Tablicia SA). We have made adjustments of totals for Belgium and Romania after we received updated information. In the case of the former, we have removed two previously closed Unilin lines from the main listing.
Above: First board at Kastamonu’s new Samsun particleboard plant, Turkey Table 3 EU28 Capacity
No of mills
Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia
No of lines
5 11 2 6 1
Czech Republic 3 Denmark Estonia Finland France
Germany Greece
Hungary Italy
Latvia
Lithuania Poland
Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain
Sweden UK
1 2 1
3 7 1 3 1 2 1
11 13 9 14 3 1
6 1
11 13 3 2 8 2 6 5 1
3 2 8 3 6 5 1
10 12 2 5
2 5
100 123 Table 4 Capacity outside EU28
No of mills
Belarus Norway Russia Serbia
Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
3 3
No of lines
3 3
43 43 1 1
18 22 2
2 71 75
1 1
December 2020 capacity '000m3
835 410
9404 150 580
5295 850
17524
December 2020 capacity '000m3
2185 1200 2180 110
1350 350 278 200
4012 6040 720 450
3985 618
1127 3945 915
2026 1509 330
3400 680
2208 39818
Germany’s particleboard industry recorded significant growth in Q2 this year, with its particleboard production rising by more than 30% to just over 1.1 million m3
, although this
is against a comparison with the early days of the pandemic in 2020. Staying with Germany, we have now added Sonae Arauco’s Beeskow mill to the main listing after it produced its first board in July of 2020, later than the 2019 intended but delays were compounded by the pandemic outbreak. This adds 340,000m3 give a 600,000m3
of capacity to annual capacity.
Of course, there was a flurry of activity of new particleboard plants coming on line in 2019-20 – others during this period in the EU28 include VMG, Akmene, Lithuania; Tableros Hispanos, Nadela, Spain; Kastamonu, Gorno Sharane, Bulgaria; and Egger, Biskupiec, Poland. Added to the main listing for this year is
the VMG project at Akmene. The 660,000m3 capacity plant featuring a Siempelkamp ContiRoll Generation 9 press produced its first board on July 31, 2020 and is rated as one of the most efficient plants in Europe which also has thin board production capabilities.
A new single opening press from Dieffenbacher has been installed at Lombardo in Italy to replace an existing Pagnoni press at the site in Mortegliano, Udine. The capacity is not changing much from the previous 70,000m3
NON EU28 Moving over to the rest of Europe, but outside the EU28, is where it perhaps gets more interesting and where Russia is a main talking point. Numerous technology manufacturers have reported an increase in investment enquiries from this nation. According to the investment portal of the Kaluga Region, in June this year Peter Kaindl, director at Kronospan Holdings attended the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Mr Kaindl and the governor of the region Vladislav Shapsha signed an investment project agreement for locating an enterprise for the production of particleboards/ composite particleboards in Kaluga. The construction of a third plant at the
Lyudinovskaya site of the Kaluga ISEZ is seen as a new stage in the industry development in the region. Investments in Kronospan DSP will amount to about 10 billion rubles and about 100 positions will be created. WBPI understands that Chinese plant supplier Yalian Machinery Co Ltd will undertake the project and our indications are that this will be a very large capacity, possibly up to 1 million m
.. but it will allow
the manufacturer to make a greater range of quality boards, including thinner panels. Other adjustments we have made in the main listing, include altering the name of the mill at Kazla Ruda, Lithuania to more accurately reflect its ownership – from Giriu Bizonas to IKEA Industry.
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Kronospan’s Kaluga fibreboard plants and Ultra Decor Rus finished cellulose base paper plants are already under construction here. No further details are yet forthcoming about the project, but bearing in mind there are two plants already under construction at Lyudinovskaya there is a high degree of certainty that this project will be realised, so we have added it to the list of future capacity beyond 2023 and will update with details when more are forthcoming. Our Russian correspondent first mooted about investment in Kaluga in 2018, when former Kaluga governor Anatoly Artamonov signed an agreement with Kronospan during a visit to Germany. At that stage the investment was focused on an MDF plant to produce 350,000m3
a year, as well as
the production of HDF and LMDF boards. This initial investment was estimated to be US$305m.
Another project in Russia which is more advanced is that of Uvadrev at the Uva location.
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