Södra chooses Heinola to supply new progressive kilns for the sawmill in Värö, Sweden. Heinola will deliver two 2-zone automatic HTC-type progressive kilns with a total drying capacity of 60,000 cubic metres per year to Södra’s sawmill in Värö, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
The progressive kilns can dry 23 mm, 33 mm and 43 mm pine and spruce down to 12% final moisture content, and are equipped with heat recovery unit, pressure frames, high-pressure hot water spraying system HPHW, energy measurement per kiln and the very user-friendly Heinola Control System. The kilns will be suitable for the future addition of two more progressive kilns. The two progressive kilns will be delivered turnkey alongside existing continuous kilns, and the drying plant will be put into production in June 2020.
“The drying kilns are currently a bottleneck in sawmill production at Värö and, with the investment in two new kilns, we are ensuring the conditions to be able to utilise our entire production potential, while also taking the future into account,” says Mill Manager Marcus Åsgärde from Södra Wood Värö.
The drying kilns will initially be used in existing production, but when the new factory for cross-laminated timber is ready at Värö, the kilns will be used to dry timber down to 12%.
Södra was founded in 1938 and is Sweden’s largest forest owner association, with nearly 52,000 forest owners as members.
Heinola Sawmill Machinery Inc. plans, manufactures and markets technology for sawmills and the energy wood chips production. The company has a turnover of approx. Euro 25 million and has 77 employees.
