22 | Focus on particleboard: Part 1
Above: More PB investment is planned in Lithuania Photo: One of the last big investments in the country was the Klaipedos Mediena’s (VMG) plant at Akmene
Xilopan had produced chipboard since 1969 and is located in the Po Valley near Milan, manufacturing raw and melamine- faced panels based on poplar. Italian news outlet Milano Pavia News said
the factory owners had communicated to unions that production costs were around double the current market PB prices. Xilopan’s installed capacity was listed as 180,000m3
in WBPI’s particleboard survey
statistics.
Kastamonu’s Frossasco facility is not currently operating. Meanwhile, the Kronospan Sanem PB plant in Luxembourg with 900,000m3
producers - Elka-Holzwerke in Morbach following information from the company. Additionally, an investment project planned will double the capacity to 250,000m3
. annual
capacity has been moved to the main listing. The 9ft x 58.7m Siempelkamp line saw its first board produced in the summer of 2024. In Germany, we’ve slightly adjusted the capacity for one of the smallest PB
The multi-year investment project is being implemented in various investment phases. The main supplier in phase one – involving screening and gluing equipment – is the company IMAL PAL Group, with the goal achieving efficient screening and gluing of
Above: Kastamonu's Tarsus plant closed in 2024 WBPI | October/November 2025 |
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