Heinola Sawmill Machinery Inc. signed a delivery agreement worth approximately Euro 7 million for a lumber sorting and packaging plant and progressive kilns with a sawmill located in the Archangel area in Russia. The sorting plant and four new progressive kilns will be delivered to the customer in spring and early summer 2017.

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Heinola Sawmill Machinery received Euro 7 million order from Russia

Heinola Sawmill Machinery Inc. signed a delivery agreement worth approximately Euro 7 million for a lumber sorting and packaging plant and progressive kilns with a sawmill located in the Archangel area in Russia.

"This order is intended to supplement the progressive kilns delivered to the same customer earlier in 2016. This is a major order, and its size makes it significant in terms of turnover," explains Managing Director Kari Kiiskinen from Heinola.

This dry lumber sorting plant will be equipped with quality sorting equipment that operates based on automatic camera sorting. Cutting will be carried out with cut-off saws that facilitate stepless cutting sizes, and the lumber will be sorted into 50 sorting bins.
The plant will be capable of sorting up to 180 pieces/minute, allowing process a total of approximately 400,000 cubic metres of lumber per year. The sorting plant and four new progressive kilns will be delivered to the customer in spring and early summer 2017.