On December 15 of last year, the
Siempelkamp installation team announced the production readiness of the single-source turnkey plant for particle board in the town of Suwalki in northeastern Poland. That meant that the plant was put into operation one-and-a-half months before the contractually agreed February 2018 date. After the Christmas holiday period, the first board was produced on February 3. Siempelkamp congratulates the committed and experienced team of
Fabryki Mebli “Forte” S.A. and celebrates the first production start of 2018.
With the production start of its most advanced factory, Forte, one of Europe’s largest furniture manufacturers, ensures the capacity utilization of its furniture plants in order to meet the de-mands of the market. The Polish manufacturer makes self-assembly furniture at four production locations including Ostrów Mazowiecka, Białystok, Hajnówka, and now also Suwałki.
Since the installation start in the beginning of May 2017, the Siempelkamp installation team scored by meeting the extremely tight deadlines and prematurely completing project milestones. The Siempelkamp subsidiary Büttner installed its turnkey systems consisting of a 49.9 MW en-ergy plant and a drum dryer with a drying capacity of 42.4 t/h bone dry two months ahead of time in November 2017. The plant’s installation start, which had to be delayed due to permit reasons, was thus compensated for.
The entire finishing line of the plant consisting of a diagonal saw, a cooling and stacking line, an automated storage system, as well as the sanding line was completed by the Siempelkamp team in November 2017. With the new particleboard plant in Suwalki including the continuous forming and press line with ContiRoll press, Fabryki Mebli “Forte” S.A. went into production ahead of time and is expanding its production by 1500 m³ of particleboard per day.
The first board produced at Fabryki Mebli Forte (LTR): Stefan Tippenhauer, Volodymyr Hry-horiev, Peter Schönfeld, Peter Wollnik, Christian Löffler (all Siempelkamp), Achim Iredi (Project Manager Forte), Thomas May, Rudolf Ohlendorf, Andreas Nussbaum , Lars Rabitsch, Dr. Ali Akrami (all Siempelkamp)
