TURKEY – The Turkish wood-based panel producer, Kastamonu Entegre,  placed an order to Siempelkamp for an 8′ x 63.7 m MDF wood-based panel plant with ContiRoll. This makes it the longest of the 32 ContiRolls and the longest continuous press on the Turkish market.

With this project, the two companies are setting completely new standards in the wood-based panel industry; the installation of the new press line will create another mega site in Turkey.

Following the definition of the Swedish-Finnish management consultancy AFRY, production sites with a raw board production capacity of more than one million m³/year with downstream finishing processes – added value – are referred to as mega sites in the wood-based panel industry.

Thus far, four of these mega sites exist in Turkey, all of which are equipped with ContiRoll press technology. With the new production plant at the Balıkesir location, Kastamonu Entegre is currently already developing its second mega site in Turkey.

Since 2005, Kastamonu Entegre has been operating a 7′ x 42.1 m ContiRoll particleboard plant with an annual output of more than 600,000 m³ at the Balıkesir site in the west of the country. The other mega site is operated by Kastamonu Entegre at the location in Gebze, where HDF, MDF and particleboard are produced as raw boards on currently three continuous press lines and various plants are operated for further processing or finishing of these products.

The new plant for the Balıkesir complex is the ninth with continuous press technology that Kastamonu Entegre has ordered from Siempelkamp.