GERMANY - On November 22nd, the South African wood-based panel producer PG Bison signed the contract for the purchase of its fourth Siempelkamp plant within 15 years.

Thus, the annual production output of these four plants will clearly exceed the mark of one million m³.

The order includes a press line with ContiRoll in the 6' x 38.7 m format for the production of MDF, LMDF, and HDF in a thickness range from 3.0 to 35 mm.

The new plant will produce an additional 780m³ per day, increasing MDF manufacturing capacity from the current 420m³ per day to 1200m³ per day. This will ensure that PG Bison can support its customers growing demand.

This project will be the fourth Siempelkamp plant which PG Bison has ordered from its German supplier. The successful cooperation started with the first greenfield particleboard plant which PG Bison ordered for its Ugie location in 2006. In 2012, the contract for an MDF plant in Boksburg was signed, and in 2015 for a second particleboard plant for Piet Retief.

With the planned annual production capacity of the new MDF plant of more than 275,000 m³ per year, this new project will push PG Bison’s total installed capacity of more than 1 million m³ per annum across its three production plants.