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Being part of a large global group like Siempelkamp has meant CMC Texpan has had assistance and work with group sister companies around the world. It is also now making use of the Explore Siempelkamp digital platform, which showcases the group’s full range of products and services, including many videos that customers can watch. “So, we try this digital way,” said Mr
Granzotto. “This new platform works very well and the customers are digesting this new approach.”
PANEL MARKET DYNAMICS “I think there are some parts of the world that are investing in new plants but there are a lot of customers wanting to revamp their existing plants,” added Mr Granzotto. He expects several investment projects in Italy in 2022 and beyond, while several customers in Russia are looking to invest in technology. CMC’s attendance at the Woodex exhibition in Moscow on November 30-December 3 is expected to yield more information on the pulse of the Russian market. “It is harder to gauge with no travelling and just video conference calls.” Asia has been a lively market for some years. One of the projects CMC Texpan worked on with Siempelkamp was to supply a third particleboard plant for Green River Panels (Thailand) Co Ltd in Trang, Thailand. Full commercial production at the plant was reached in June, 2020. CMC Texpan supplied screening and sifting, as well as glue preparation, dosing and blending.
Design capacity of the Trang line is 2,000m3
targeted 2,500m3 770,000m3
per day but Green River Panels has per day (approximately
per year). Other Siempelkamp
subsidiaries Büttner and Pallman also work on the project, and, given the results, CMC Texpan says it affirms that the “group synergy” bears good results. CMC Texpan also has its eyes on the North American market as well as the hybrid board sector, which has seen growing applications globally. It has collaborated a lot with the Siempelkamp group on the hybrid board front.
“Not all the world is ready for this type of board yet,” explained Mr Granzotto. “There are some customers that want to introduce it in the market but in my opinion it is too early to estimate numbers. “We are also focusing on recycled wood,” added Mr Granzotto. “In the last year we have concentrated on developing some new products and we strongly believe in this segment.” The Lynx machine is a main new offering in this area and is designed to remove
contaminants and pollutants from the woodwaste material intake. Since processed woodwaste material
contains contaminants of different types, achieving an effective cleaning of recycled wood plays a primary role in the preparation of the raw material. The machine is compact; it is based on SWIR spectroscopy (which is an evolution of the NIR system) and it is specially designed for the removal of contaminants such as plastics, foam, silicone, and polystyrene. It may be equipped with optional accessories to detect particles according to their colour, or with an X-ray system to improve the efficiency of the machine and to detect and remove materials with higher density, such as ferrous and non- ferrous metals, aluminium, copper, lead and various alloys. “With this kind of machine, it is possible to
remove a lot of contaminants using only one machine, whereas before you had to use two or more machines.” Testing work has shown an efficiency rate of 95-98%. One machine has so far been installed at one of CMC Texpan’s customers and operational results data from the installation will be compiled by the company before the end of 2021. Mr Granzotto said recycled wood use was an aspect of meeting sustainability requirements in the wood-based panels industry as well as an environment protection for future ecological/green targets.
“It depends which part of the world we are talking about because in Italy and Europe the use of technology for recycling wood is very high, especially in Italy because we don’t have much fresh wood.” But he said the situation may change in
other world regions that currently have plenty of fresh wood. “We have to prepare for the changes in the next three to five years, we must be ready.” A special R&D department has been
created at Colzate to develop this side of the business. “We are working to apply our machines to other sectors, for example plastic. There are some machines and some systems we have to modify and adapt for different products and sectors.”
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS CMC Texpan has a philosophy of not remaining static and it has two or three more developments in the wood preparation segment it is working on, which will be revealed in 2022-23 ready in time for the next Ligna exhibition in Hannover. It is also developing some improvements in its existing glue blenders, as well as developing new blenders entirely in order to further save on the quantity of glue used in the boards. The latter will involve some new technologies and some adapting of the machine. The company says reduction of formaldehyde emissions in the atmosphere during manufacture and in the formaldehyde content inside the board was an important trend.
On the forming systems front, CMC’s
Ecoformer is also being enhanced to better performance. The company is supplying the Ecoformer
to both Siempelkamp and direct customer projects.
“There are some customers who ask
us to replace their windformers with the Ecoformer because of the reduction in power consumption achieved and the quality of surface is higher, while saving on raw material,” said Mr Granzotto. And customers will be interested to learn that there is a further broad new development coming from CMC Texpan. “In the near future we will introduce something new to the market!” he said. “It is not only a machine but a concept or
system, from chipping to screening, from drying to blending and for forming.”
Above: CMC Texpan glue kitchen
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