20 | Focus on particleboard: Part 1
NON EU Existing Plants , December 2024 Company
Location
SWITZERLAND Swiss Krono AG
TURKEY Derya Insast Devrek Foca-Sunta AS Getas A.S. Kastamonu
Menznau
Western Black Sea Foca, Izmir Bursa
Kastamonu
Kastamonu City Balikesir
Kupelier Endustri AS Orma AS
Serdar Agar SFC AS
Starwood
Suntasan/Kupelier Teverpan Vezir Agac
Yildiz Entegre Yildiz Sunta
UKRAINE Kronolvilv Kronospan Kronospan
TOTAL NON EU
Gebze, Kocaeli Terme, Samsun Eskisehir Isparta Isparta Isparta
Inegol, Bursa Kastamonu Inegol, Bursa
Eskisehir
Press Type/Make na
SO/Emitelau
MO/Siemp C/Siemp C/Siemp C/Siemp
C/Siemp
C/Siemp
SO/Rauma Repola SO/Siemp C/Siemp C/Siemp
SO/Motala
Cerkezkoy, Takirdag MO/Siemp Vezirkopru, Samsun MO/Pagnoni Akhisar, Manisa Mudurnu, Bolu Izmit, Kocaeli
C/Siemp C/Siemp C/Siemp
Osmoloda
Novovolynsk Rivne
na na
Width mm na
1830 2050 2100 2100 1830 2200 2100 1830
2050 1830 2150 2600 2560 1830 2440 2100 1830 1830 1830 2440 2100 2150
na na
2400
Length m na
14.64 14.64 7.32 2.80 37.10 42.10 37.10 36.60 23.80 18.30 3.66 3.71
22.00 11.30 44.70 23.50 11.20 14.64 3.66 3.66
42.10 28.80 42.10
na na
52.8
000m/year
580 580
108 96 30
220 595 665 595 595 230
642 96 66
825 99
132 66
510 345 510
6425
400 450 850
1700 19484
to continued high interest rates and the elevated cost of living over recent years. West Fraser Europe, which makes OSB, PB and MDF, also posted challenging results for the year ended December 31, 2024. Turnover reduced to £352m from £417m in 2023, while a loss before taxation of £16.5m was recorded (2023: £7m pre-tax profit). The wider group’s Q3 results show
reported adjusted earnings (EBITDA) of US$(144m) for the third quarter (Q2 2025: US$84m), with the North America engineered wood products division recording EBITDA of US$(15m). The European engineered wood products segment reported adjusted EBITDA of US$1m. The company expects demand for new
home construction and wood building products may continue to be challenged and even decline over the near term, though the European division may see some demand improvements.
With very little large new investment taking place in Europe, competition is heightened among machinery manufacturers for the projects, especially the larger ones. One project not previously mentioned in our reports is one in Lithuania by Baltic. The aim is to service the furniture construction market and estimated particleboard capacity will be approximately 1,500m3
per day. At
the time of going to press, no confirmation of equipment contracts have yet surfaced, but there is a high degree of confidence that the project will proceed. It has been added to the list of European future capacity. Lithuania has seen some PB investment in recent years – in 2020 Klaipedos Mediena’s (VMG) plant at Akmene, went online. The 660,000m3
capacity plant, features a
ContiRoll Generation 9 continuous 8ft x 45.4m press with a daily production capacity of 2,000m³. It is considered one of the most modern wood-based panels plants in Europe with
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high standards of resource efficiency and energy efficiency. It can make thin boards down to just 3mm thick. It supplies VMG's furniture and kitchen production for IKEA. Two projects still featuring in our list of future capacity are in Italy. These are for Kronospan Italia in San Vito al Tagliamento and for Saviola in Viadana. There is concrete news on the first of these – Kronospan Italia.
The €280m plans for a 612,000m3 capacity
PB mill in the Ponte Rosso industrial area, where it already has a facility, is now cleared to go ahead after several years of discussions and opposition from locals on environmental matters.
Kronospan obtained the approval of the
Council of State, which, on June 19 rejected the Municipality's appeal. The ruling was published on September 25, 2025. Numerous appeals have now been dismissed. Also, on January 14 this year, Fileo Costruzioni Srl and the Ponte Rosso
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