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Dieffenbacher will supply first OSB plant in Asia |
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Dieffenbacher
GmbH announced a contract with Hubei Bouyuan Group of China to supply
the main equipment package for a new OSB production plant to be located
near Jingmen, Hubei Province, P.R. China.
Mr Cai Weijin, CEO
and President of Hubei Buoyuan Group, and Mr Wolf-Gerd Dieffenbacher,
President of the Dieffenbacher Group, celebrated the signing of the
contract at Ligna 2009 in Hannover, Germany on May 9.
This will be
the first OSB line in mainland China and the first of its kind in Asia.
Nominal production capacity of the 8 ft. wide and 30 m long continuous
press CPS line is 220,000m3 /year.
The heart of the plant is a 3-head
OSB forming system designed to ensure highest forming accuracy and
minimum board tolerances. Dieffenbacher will also supply log infeed,
stranding, wet strand storage, an SPE drum dyer, dry strand storage and
screening and gluing systems. The press outfeed and board finishing
sytems and plant automation and control systems will also be supplied
by Dieffenbacher Group member companies.
Poplar and pine
plantations in the surrounding area will supply the fiber for the
plant. Production of OSB is scheduled for startup in 2010.
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