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US Existing plants, December 2024 Company
Arauco North America
Location Albany OR
Bennetsville Grayling MI
Collins Products LLC Dakota Panel
Klamath Falls OR Rapid City SD
Egger Wood Products LLC Lexington Forte Opening Solutions Florida Plywood Inc
GP Wood Products LLC Kronospan LLC
Greenville FLA
Diboll TX Eastaboga
La Grande OR Simsboro Masonite Plummer Products
Wahpeton ND Post Falls ID
Timber Products Company Medford OR
Canada Existing plants, December 2024 Company
Daiken North America Ltd.
Uniboard
Press Type/Make MO/WIW MO/WIW
MO/WIW MO/WIW C/Siemp SO/Siemp SO/na
MO/WIW
MO/WIW MO/WIW
na
MO MO
Width ft 4 6
10 5
na 10 7 5
Length ft 24 26
120
24 na
43.7 9
24
512 4
5 4
10 5 4 4
30 24
18 24
36.5 18 8
16
265 600
428 396 58
133 207
4922
000m/yr
253 584 800 248 159 637 124
Location
Huntsville ON Lac Megantic
Sayabec Val d'Or
Press Type/Make Conti/Siemp Conti/Siemp Conti/Siemp
MO
Width mm 2515 2850 3140 3140 2515 2500
Length m 14000 21000 38700 24600 35800 6100
000m/yr 257
910
644 363
2174
Mexico Existing plants, December 2024 Company Arauco
BestBoard Impulsora S.A. De C.V. Industrias Emman
Maderas Conglomerados Masisa
Ponderplay, SA de CV Taosa Paneles, SA de CV
Location Durango
Zitacuaro Tijuana Ocotlan San Juan
Chihuahua Durango Ocotlan
Press Type/Make SO/Siemp SO/Bison MO/BVH
SO
Conti/Bison
na na
Width ft 2500 2500 2460 120
1250 na
246 na na
Length ft 9800
14600 6150
12000 7300 na
26000 na na
000m/yr
155 184 30 80 71
219 84 24
847
Tagliamento Local Economic Development Consortium reached an agreement for the land acquisition where the factory will be built. Environmental group the ABC Committee had led objections, claiming that the project would lead to a 30% increase in fine particle emissions in San Vito – a claim which was ultimately rejected. The lengthy process is believed to have added substantially to project costs. Massimo Cenedella, general manager of Kronospan Italia, was quoted in Italia media reports:
“We are now calm and motivated, and thanks also to Confindustria Alto Adriatico and the Ponterosso Consortium, we are moving forward and pursuing our goals. We will launch the project quickly, starting with a rail link.”
So, the long-running saga appears to
be over and a project that was originally envisaged to be completed by the end of 2024 looks more likely to start soon and be finished within the next two years. The second project is Saviola’s plan for a new PB plant at its Viadana site in northern Italy. It is WBPI’s understanding that this
delayed project is still envisaged, so it remains in our list of future capacities. But no concrete update is yet forthcoming on a project start date. Saviola, an expert in the use of recycled
wood, was in the news last year for its investment moves in Germany by taking a majority ownership of German producer Rheinspan.
Xilopan, the Italian particleboard manufacturer, shuttered production earlier in 2025 after deciding its panel manufacturing was uncompetitive in the current economic environment.
www.wbpionline.com | October/November 2025 | WBPI
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