26 | Focus on Italy: IMAL PAL Group
About 260 trucks will be involved in transporting the equipment to the site in Siberia.
The first board is hoped to be produced
by March 2022 and full production to be reached two months later. Latat already operates an MDF plant at
the Tomsk site, with an estimated annual production capacity of 330,000m3
. It bought
the assets on the site, previously operated by Partner-Tomsk, in 2017.
Mr Zanasi said the unprecedented pandemic
situation had impacted all the companies supplying equipment during 2020. “Our turnover in 2020 was lower than
the average of the previous years but that happened in almost all companies in the world,” he said.
In 2021, the whole IMAL-PAL Group (including Globus) is forecast to reach a turnover of €210m-220m, slightly more than 2019. “What is interesting for IMAL is that we
have very nice portfolio orders. “We are now discussing another four OSB
complete line projects across the world.” Because these are in negotiation phase, no
customer names can be released, but one of them is a large group that wants to switch a particleboard operation over to OSB and LSB (light strand board). IMAL PAL continues its relationship with Italian board producer Ipan – it supplied a continuous press line to the company about eight years ago for the manufacture of OSB and LSB.
The line’s success has led to further talks with IMAL about a potential new second OSB line and it is believed that Ipan are seeking permissions for the second plant. “I’m quite confident about the second line from Ipan next year because they are extremely satisfied with our equipment and the plant is running well.” For all these projects being discussed,
IMAL PAL Group is not promoting traditional drum dryers, but its belt dryers instead. “In order to guarantee the right dust and
VOC emissions, drum dryers have to be equipped with electrostatic filters and they run with a very high temperature. “Our belt dryer, which we are installing at
Latat, runs with a low temperature – about 95O
C compared with 300-400O drum dryer.
Above (from top to bottom): The IMAL OSB press under erection to Latat, Tomsk
Completed IMAL press IMAL PAL Group is seeing many enquiries for its belt dryers
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“Because of that we have VOC emissions that are very low. So, we are claiming that our belt dryer solution is much more ecological, for example we guarantee dust emissions below 5mg/m3
of air.”
The Group has so far manufactured about 30 belt dryers, in a wide range of capacity for example from 3 ton/h water evaporation in Costa Rica up to about 30 ton/h.
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