VIDA is closing its sawmill at Bello and transferring the production to its nearby Hjältevad mill.
An extra shift will be added at Hjältevad to cope with the extra 55,000m³ output, bringing the mill’s total sawn timber volume to 240,000m³.
VIDA CEO Santhe Dahl told TTJ that Bello had not received any investment in its sawmilling facility for a while. Hjältevad, he added, had seen an investment of about SKr200m in the past two years.
“We cannot invest competitively in two so similar facilities,” he said.
Bello’s planing and drying operations will continue to operate, with planing output possibly to be increased.
