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Starwood orders new MDF line from Dieffenbacher


The forming line at Starwood’s particleboard plant


Starwood has commissioned Dieffenbacher to supply an MDF line in Inegol, Turkey, that will include a 9ft-wide by 63.5m-long CPS+ press, the largest continuous wood- based panel press in Turkey. The news comes just two years after Starwood signed the acceptance of its new


Dieffenbacher particleboard line – one month ahead of the contractually agreed upon date.


In addition to Turkey’s largest continuous wood-based panel press, Dieffenbacher will supply the dryer, sifter and glue preparation technology as


well as the forming station and forming line. Downstream of the press, Dieffenbacher will deliver the press emission control system, raw board handling, STS storage system and the sanding line. It is also responsible for the plant electrics and automation. Following the engineering phase, installation is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2022. The first board is to be produced toward the end of the same year. “Collaboration is the


key,” said Starwood CEO Hüseyin Yildiz at the contract negotiations in Inegol in July. “That’s the motto that made our particleboard project so successful two years ago, and I trust Dieffenbacher that it will be the same for our new MDF line.”


Wemhöner CEO reaches final of Entrepreneur competition


The winners will be announced at a hybrid event in Berlin on November 4. Some 36 companies have made it to the finals of the competition this year. “I am very happy about this


Finalist Heiner Wemhöner


Heiner Wemhöner, the managing partner of Wemhöner Surface Technologies, is in the final of the Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 competition. The award is presented in the various categories of family business, innovation, sustainability and young companies and rewards entrepreneurship, innovative strength and personal commitment. In


addition, honorary prizes for exceptional scientific and social commitment as well as for exceptional entrepreneurial and social commitment will be awarded. Auditing and consulting firm EY is selecting the best owner-managed companies in Germany. Criteria includes looking


at how entrepreneurs have successfully navigated their way through the pandemic.


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award,” said finalist Heiner Wemhöner. “It gives us all an additional incentive.” One of the winners will represent Germany at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 in Monaco. An independent jury of


renowned experts selects the winners according to the assessment criteria sustainability of the business model, innovation, transformation, employee management and social responsibility. For further information, please visit the following website: https://www.de.ey.com/eoy


Andritz receives second order from Kastamonu


International technology Group Andritz has received the second order in a row from Kastamonu Entegre to supply a disc chipper and a pressurised refining system for its MDF production line in Balikesir, Turkey. Start-up of the new


equipment is planned for the end of 2022.


The centrepiece of the new line will be the pressurised refining system, including a 24in plug screw feeder and a high-capacity S2070M refiner. The technology will process pine, beech and oak as raw material.


All Andritz pressurised refining systems feature low consumption of electricity and thermal energy. The scope of supply also


comprises a gravity-fed HQ- Chipper, a chip bin discharger and a 74in digester, as well as supervision of mechanical installation and start-up. With supply of the new high-capacity pressurized refining system, Andritz will have supplied 16 installations to Turkey – eight of them equipped with a well-proven S-refiner.


New homes sales in the US see a reverse in August


US new single-family house sales dropped 24.3% in August compared to the same month in 2020, according to new statistics released by the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales in August 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 740,000. This is 1.5% above the revised July rate of 729,000, but below the August 2020 estimate of 977,000. The average new house sales price in August 2021 was US$390,900.


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