Panels & Furniture Asia September/October 2022

NEWS
KASTAMONU ENTEGRE
AND SIEMPELKAMP
COLLABORATE ON NEW
PARTICLEBOARD PLANT
Kastamonu Entegre has placed an
order with Siempelkamp for a new
particleboard plant in its location in the
city of Kastamonu, Turkey.
According to Siempelkamp, this is the
third joint project between both parties
within the last two and a half years. The
new plant corresponds to the design of
the particleboard plant that Kastamonu
Entegre has been operating at the
Samsun, Turkey site since February
2021.
The Samsun plant, as well as the one
currently on order, contains a sevenfeet-by-37.1m
ContiRoll, and is designed
for a daily output of 2,000m³.
At the plant in Kastamonu City the
Turkish wood-based panel producer has
already been operating a Siempelkamp
plant for the production of mediumdensity
fibreboard (MDF) and highdensity
fibreboard (HDF) since 2007.
With the new particleboard plant at
this location, Kastamonu Entegre is
expanding its range of boards for the
domestic furniture industry.
As recently as November 2021,
Kastamonu Entegre ordered a woodbased
panel plant for MDF production at
the city Balıkesir site. With an eight-feetby-63.7m
ContiRoll, it includes what
is reportedly the “longest continuous
press in the Turkish market”.
“The plant in Samsun keeps what the
initial phase promised,” explained
Ulrich Kaiser, head of sales at
Siempelkamp. “It produces at top
level and stands for everything that
is important to us when we realise
projects for our customers: reliability,
high performance, teamwork.”
The project is realised together with
GIM Export Group, Siempelkamp’s link
to the Turkish market. P
From left: Hasan
Akpinar, global
investment and
projects director,
Kastamonu Entegre;
Ulrich Kaiser, head of
sales, Siempelkamp;
and Ralf Spindler
from GIM Export
ANDRITZ SUPPLIES “LARGEST” HIGH-CAPACITY
PRESSURISED REFINING SYSTEM
The new system features a design capacity
of 80 bone dry metric tonne per hour, and is
reportedly “the largest of its kind in the world”
now to form part of “the largest mediumdensity
fibreboard (MDF) line”.
According to a press release by Andritz, Guangxi
Chongzuo Lelin Forestry Development has
successfully produced the first fibres with its
high-capacity pressurised refining system
delivered by Andritz.
Wei Rengang, general
manager of Guangxi
Chongzuo Lelin Forestry
Development (left),
and Huang Yongli,
technology manager
of Andritz Panelboard
(Image: Andritz)
Guangxi Chongzuo Lelin Forestry Development
is part of the Lelin Group, headquartered in
Nanning, Guangxi, China, which has been
focusing on wood-based panel production for
nearly 20 years.
Andritz installed the complete system, from
chip washing to refining. It comprises a 74-inch
single-disc refiner with a large flat refining
surface and a high axial load capacity. With a
height of nearly 2.4m and a total weight of 21.7
tonnes, the high-capacity refiner type S2074M is
built for optimal production rates.
Wei Rengang, general manager of Guangxi
Chongzuo Lelin Forestry Development, said:
“The entire line, and especially our new
high-capacity refiner is really impressive not
only because of its dimensions. It has already
shown very promising performance. Our
thanks go to Andritz for their hard work and the
exceptionally good collaboration.” P
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