TURKEY – For its second production plant near Inegöl, the Turkish wood-based materials manufacturer Starwood, ordered from Siempelkamp its second thin-board plant for the production of thin MDF/HDF boards.

This is the fifth time that Starwood has chosen to use Siempelkamp’s ContiRoll® press technology and a Siempelkamp plant.

The new high-performance thin board plant is being built at Starwood’s second site near Inegöl, which has so far been used for wood chip production. It supplements the capacity of approx. 750 to 800 m³/day currently being produced on the first 7′ line. The new 8′ line is designed for a capacity of an additional 1,000 m³/day with board thicknesses of 2.7 to 3.0 mm. Their thickness ranges from 1.5 mm to 6 mm. It is therefore geared to the production of thin and ultra-thin boards, but can also be used in furniture board production for MDF and L-MDF up to 22 mm.

Very thin MDF boards are increasingly being used, for example, as furniture back panels, top layers of doors or drawer bottoms. Thin MDF can only be produced economically with very fast-running plants. The new plant for Starwood is therefore designed to run at 2,000 mm/s.

The core of the scope of supply is the moulding and press line around the ninth-generation ContiRoll continuous press in the 8′ x 28.8 m format. Besides the flexible infeed, the press is specially equipped with a hydraulic concept developed for thin and ultra-thin board production and a lightweight board package for furniture board production.

Assembly will start in mid-2021, and based on the long years of cooperation and experience of both companies, the goal to produce the first board is planned for end of 2021.