BRAZIL – Berneck S. A. Painéis e Serrados placed an order with Siempelkamp for an MDF production plant with cutting-edge ContiRoll® technology.

Following the plant’s startup, scheduled for spring of 2021, the new Berneck production location in Lages, Santa Catarina will manufacture 1,665 m² of MDF daily. The installation of the plant is scheduled to begin in the 2Q 2020 and the production of the first board is forecast for December of the same year.

The heart of the plant comes from Siempelkamp’s ContiRoll® Generation 9 with a length of 48.8 m and a width of 9’. With this latest generation of the continuous press for wood-based materials, the ContiRoll® Generation 9 NEO (New Entry Option), Berneck receives the most advanced Siempelkamp technology as the very first customer. The key design feature of the NEO version is its ultra-flexible, extended press infeed.

The competitive advantages that Siempelkamp offers its customers with the Generation 9 ContiRoll® series include best machine availability, minimal maintenance efforts, precise performance and status control, and a further-enhanced product quality while, at the same time, providing high potential for energy and material savings.

The scope of supply also includes that all five of Berneck’s production lines will be equipped with Prod-IQ Next. For Berneck, this state-of the-art digitalization will make a self-optimizing, almost reject-free production of wood-based materials with continuously high product quality possible.

Founded in 1952 as a sawmill in Bituruna in the federal state of Paraná, Berneck S. A. Painéis e Serrados is one of the largest producers in the South American market and maintains trade relations to more than 60 countries. The manufacturer primarily processes wood from pine trees (Pinus elliottii) grown on the company’s sustainable plantations which cover an area of 63,000 ha.

The company has trusted in Siempelkamp’s experience in technology for the production of wood-based materials for the last 35 years. This will be Berneck S. A. Painéis e Serrados fifth production plant with cutting-edge ContiRoll® technology from Siempelkamp.