Raute awarded Euro 30 million Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) equipment order from Stora Enso Wood Products Oy

6 March 2015

Raute Corporation has received an order worth Euro 30 million for the machinery and equipment of a Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) production line from Stora Enso Wood Products Oy. The ordered LVL line will be delivered to Stora Enso's mill in Varkaus, Finland, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

The machinery and equipment will be manufactured at Raute's Nastola, Shanghai and Kajaani plants and delivered in the beginning of the year 2016. The production line will be started in the summer 2016.

The annual capacity of the future LVL production line in Varkaus will be around 100,000 cubic meters. The raw material for the LVL line will be softwood supplied from the surrounding region. Raute's leading technology, position as a supplier of LVL lines all around the world and reference deliveries of mill-scale projects were the convincing factors, resulting in Raute to receive the order.

Raute is a technology and service company that operates worldwide. Raute’s customers are companies operating in the wood products industry that manufacture veneer, plywood and LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber).

 

Source : http://www.lesprom.com/