80 | Feature: Kallfass
SUMMARY
■CLT output at best wood Schneider will be 100,000m3
/year
■Material flow on the new lines is continuously automated
■Kallfass is responsible for the majority of the mechanisation in the CLT plant
A CLT PLANT FOR PROFESSIONALS
Kallfass is playing a leading role in the new production line and CLT plant at best wood Schneider
Log in, finished CLT element out – and all without a forklift. This is how you could describe best wood Schneider’s extremely ambitious greenfield project in just a few words.
At the newly founded site in Messkirch, Germany, the company is implementing a trendsetting, end-to-end production line and the CLT plant is currently being commissioned. The planned output in the sawmill is 350,000m3
expansion, the CLT production will reach an output of 100,000m3
Kallfass also plays a leading role in further processing.
In fact, best wood Schneider “only” wanted to build a cross-laminated timber plant at the new Messkirch site. “Large-format CLT was the only product that we still lacked as a complete supplier for our approximately 5,000 active timber construction customers,” said Ferdinand Schneider, managing director. In addition to solid structural timber (KVH), glulam, glued laminated timber and box girder elements, the family-owned company offers its customers numerous wood fibre insulation systems as well as comprehensive planning and consulting services.
Top: The CLT press is just one of many components that Kallfass implemented in best wood Schneider’s new CLT plant
Above left & right: Using conveyor belts, the dried raw material is transported from the sawmill directly to the next hall. There, the timber is assessed, stacked and temporarily stored in a high-bay warehouse. From there it continues to the BSP line or onto the lorry
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“But then we decided to do it right from the logs and to realise a continuous line from the logs to the finished timber construction products,” said Mr Schneider, describing the process that began seven years ago with the planning phase and continues to this day. According to Kallfass project manager Stefan Günther, this constant development and improvement of ongoing projects, both large and small, is characteristic of the company: “Schneider projects are organic and continue to grow,” he said. “However, these
/year and after the final /year. As in the sawmill,
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