GERMANY – Siempelkamp, one of the leading systems suppliers for press technology has convinced a new customer in China of its competence. The new client is the wood-based materials manufacturer Jiangsu Hui Dian New Materials Co., LTD, which has commissioned Siempelkamp with the supply of a production plant for OSB.

The special feature of this plant will be the ability to produce OSB that can be laminated. Similar to OSB, this new product has a fine particleboard surface layer comparable to particleboards used in furniture production.

The production line includes a 8.5’ x 38.8 m ContiRoll® press of the 8th generation. The specially-equipped forming line will have five mat-forming machines. The scope of supply also includes the screening system and the EcoPulser for secondary size-reduction of chips, the resin dosing and blending system, the double diagonal saw as well as the SicoScan quality measurement system, the thickness gauge and control, the blow detector, and the weight scales. The production management will be controlled by Siempelkamp’s Prod-IQ® process control technology.

The installation of the plant is scheduled to start in spring of 2020. After becoming fully operational the new plant will be manufacturing approximately 300,000 m3 of OSB annually.

The location for the new plant is Shuyang in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. One of the two production facilities of the Siempelkamp Group is situated approximately 350 kilometers north of this location – in Qingdao.

“For me, orders such as this one are an important confirmation of our strategy to increase our presence in China. One main area for global demand can be found here. We meet this demand with suitable offers and local resources. It is particularly pleasing that we were once again able to convince a new customer of our services,” said Christoph Michel, spokesperson of the management of the Siempelkamp holding company.