38 | Panel Perspectives: Kronospan Slovakia
KRONOSPAN INVESTS IN SLOVAKIA
Kronospan is planning a €120m MDF investment in central Slovakia, reports WBPI’s Poland correspondent, Jaroslaw Adamowski
Above: Kronospan recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the foundation of its plant in Jihlava in neighbouring Czech Republic. The Czech factory employs a workforce of about 700 employees, and it makes particleboard, OSB boards, laminated boards and worktops PHOTO: KRONOSPAN
ustria’s Kronospan is aiming to invest some €120m in building a new MDF production facility in Zvolen, in central Slovakia, with plans to supply the factory’s increased output to the construction and furniture industries. The latest initiative marks another project to ramp up the Slovak factory’s manufacturing capacities since the group acquired it in 2003. According to the Slovak Ministry of
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the Environment in an official document released last June, the new plant is expected to produce about 450,000m3
of MDF per
year, manufacturing widths of between 6mm and 38mm. The group’s local subsidiary, Zvolen-based Kronospan sro, was required to submit this data as part of its application for an environmental impact assessment. Construction work on the new project is
expected to begin within a two-year period after Kronospan is awarded a permission to launch the investment. Once the project is initiated, the Austrian manufacturer expects
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construction work to take about 18 months to complete. According to the company, some 130 new jobs are to be created in Zvolen as part of the investment.
NEW PRODUCT FOR SLOVAK PLANT “The construction of a new production facility will expand the production programme of the plant with MDF … in the thickness range of 6mm to 38mm and in the density range of 600kg/m3 900kg/m3
to ,” the manufacturer said in the
submitted documentation, adding that the new facility’s output will be intended “in particular for use in the furniture and construction industries”.
“The implementation of the plan will increase the competitiveness and economic sustainability of the company in European and global markets,” Kronospan said. The latest development marks another
investment in upgrading the Slovak plant. In 2017, Kronospan unveiled plans to
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