Dec 08, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. Asperbras, the Brazilian company planning to launch a 220,000 cubic metres per year MDF mill in the interior state of Mato Grasso do Sul in 2017, as Proteak said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

The Sao Paulo-based industrial and agribusiness group, which recently ordered a complete Siempelkamp ContiRoll board line for the mill at Agua Clara, intends later to add a second 460,000 cubic metres per year panel line on the site.

The Asperbras plant should be fully self sufficient in wood by 2019 following a local eucalyptus forest plantation programme. The firm, which already has some plantations, intends to plant 12,000 ha around Agua Clara by the end 2015, of which 7,000 ha will be growing by the end of this year.

Investment of almost $136 million is being made in the MDF facility, with an additional $34 million destined for the acquisition of forest and plantation schemes.