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The order also included the drum dryer and Lukki raw board storage system, plus the MyDIEFFENBACHER digital service solutions platform.
Another Indian PB plant – scheduled to be
commissioned in 2024 – is Greenlam South Ltd’s 265,000 m³/year project at Andhra Pradesh. Again, this represents a laminates manufacturer expanding its wood-based panels operations.
Greenlam is among the world’s top three producers of laminates, with a capacity of 15.62 million sheets of HPL per annum. The plant is its third production unit in India and is designed to put it on the path to becoming a leading wood panel manufacturer in the country. Dieffenbacher is supplying the new plant’s forming station and forming line with prepress, the CPS+ continuous press with press emission control system, the raw board handling system and the dryer. Also included are engineering, electrics and plant automation for the complete plant, as well as EVORIS, Dieffenbacher’s digital platform.
CHINA
China is the largest PB manufacturing region outside of Europe, the country producing an estimated 18.669 million m3
in 2022. There has been a trend towards PB and
hybrid panel products in the country in recent years. MDF, while a popular panel product, costs more to produce, is heavier and has a higher product price. Chinese particleboard projects now
added to the main listing include Wanhua Ecoboard’s Wanhua 9 in Chenzhou, Hunan province. This plant produced its first board in December, 2022, with a capacity of 380,000 m³/year. It is a Super Particleboard (Super PB) mill. This means the product uses long, slender flakes in the core to make it a lower density board, resulting in materials and energy savings. By mixing standard core-layer flakes with slender, long core-layer flakes, it is possible to achieve a board density up to 30 kg/m3
lower than usual. Top: The Curitibanos site of Berneck which is the focus of a new PB investment
Centre: CenturyPly’s existing particleboard site in Chinnappolapuram, Tamil Nadu Above: Australian Panels makes new PB investment - from left to right: Alex Röwe
(Sales Manager Siempelkamp), Darren Johnson (Project Manager, Australian Panels) John Borg (Managing Director/Owner Australian Panels/Borg Group), Marc Mueller (Head of Sales, Siempelkamp)
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This leads to substantial savings of wood, electrical and thermal energy, and resin without compromising board properties. Wanhua 9 & Wanhua 10, the latter a further Super PB project which produced its first board in August 2023, both use Dieffenbacher technology and utilise straw in the raw material infeed. The Wanhua 10 facility, based in Leshan, Sichuan, has a production capacity of 500,000m3
and will be added to the main
listings next year. Wanhua Ecoboard started its first Super
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