Siempelkamp received two major orders in Turkey

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Ground-breaking at Camsan Entegre: project manager Axel Weiss, managing director Suat R. Kilic, sales director Ulrich Kaiser, chairman of the board Sükrü Bodur and assistant general manager tech-nology (left to right)(Photo: Siempelkamp)

In August and September 2014 the machine and plant builder Siempelkamp was once again able to record two important sales in the area of production plants for wood-based panels in Turkey. The customers Camsan Entegre and Starwood ordered ContiRoll® press lines with a combined length of more than 100 m.

MDF/HDF plant for Camsan Entegre

In August the Turkish company Camsan Entegre ordered an equipment package from Siempelkamp including a 7' x 48.7 m Generation 8 ContiRoll® which can be extended to a length of 55.3 m. For Camsan Entegre, the first MDF manufacturer in Turkey, this investment represents its second ContiRoll® plant for the Adapazari location. The existing 8' x 27.1 m Generation 6 ContiRoll® from 2003 is primarily used for HDF production. The unfinished boards are then processed into laminate flooring at the company's own plant. The new investment is aiming to increase the current 700 – 750 m³/day in HDF production by another 1,000 m³/day. The plant allows the production of 1,000 – 1,200 m³ of furniture panels.

Next to the press, which is equipped with pressure distribution plates, an additional row of cylinders, and frequency-controlled secondary heating technology, the scope of supply includes a 65 MW Büttner energy plant as well as a Büttner fiber dryer and the subsequent fiber sifting technology. The resin blending system as well as the Ecoresinator are also part of the order. After the existing plant was retrofitted with the Ecoresinator in 2013, resulting in resin savings of more than 10% for HDF production, the customer decided to buy the same technology for its new plant.

The scope of supply is completed with the downstream board handling including the cooling and stacking line, a high rack storage system and integrated sanding and cut-to-size technology. In the area of automation special emphasis is put on minimizing the energy con-sumption and on energy efficiency. That is why all main motors for the dryer, sifter and energy plant are equipped with frequency converters. As with the existing plant, the engineering of the new plant will be carried out by Siempelkamp's subsidiary Sicoplan in Belgium.

Starwood's package for the production of lightweight boards

Starwood, Siempelkamp's major Turkish customer from Inegöl, Bursa, ordered in September 2014 a 7' Generation 8 ContiRoll® which is identical in design to the Camsan press with one difference - it already features a length of 55.3 m. Starwood intends to primarily manufacture furniture panels on this press. An additional feature of the press is the so called lightweight board package which allows reduced densities of approx. 450 kg/m³ instead of the usual 700 – 750 kg/m³. The press is equipped with additional pull-back cylinders in the high-pressure and calibration zone, thus allowing optimal adjustment of the density profile and the thickness tolerance of the boards even without counter pressure of the fiber mat inside the press.

The "sister" plants are equipped with the same drying, separating and resin blending technology. The prototype of the Ecoresinator, which was tested and made market-ready in the first Starwood MDF plant in 2009, was a natural component of the new order for the customer. Both plants are earmarked for the subsequent installation of a ContiBooster® preheater as part of the forming and press line which will result in increased press outputs. Siempelkamp will also supply the complete board handling to Starwood all the way to the integrated sanding and cut-to-size lines. A special feature is the cooling and stacking line which is equipped with four star coolers for the cooling of books of two master panels. It allows extended cooling times for furniture boards of up to two hours. This results in the reduction of board storage until their final processing and saves warehouse capacity.

Additional orders from Starwood for existing Siempelkamp plants, which were negotiated and awarded around the same time, include an upgrade of the electrical components and the further optimization and automation of the entire intralogistics of the location. These projects have already entered the detailed planning and engineering phase. The financing for these plants is, as usual, handled by GIM Export Group in Göttingen, managed by Mr. Michael P. Krocker.

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