Wolf-Christian Küspert, General Manager of Gelo Timber, officially declared the realization of new Euro 38.5 million green-field project. As part of the energy farm Wunsiedel a new sawmill site is built.
Reason for the investment is to have raw material available for the own further processing as well as using synergies with the pellet production in Wunsiedel.
Holtec will built both log handling systems – the log sorting line and the sawmill infeed. Further reasons for the investment were the decrease of emissions and the topic “sawmill 4.0”. Due to the innovative further developments of the Holtec chainless technology exactly those two issues were found there combination in an overall concept.
The log sorting line will be put into operation in November 2020. The sawmill infeed with a capacity of up to 40 pc./min will start its production at the end of 2020.
