Stora Enso has announced a €5m investment to further develop its ThermoWood, cross-laminated timber and finger-jointing operations.
The company’s Uimaharju mill in Finland will facilitate Stora Enso’s entry into the pine ThermoWood business, while manufacturing is also being upgraded to improve the overall ThermoWood process at Uimaharju.
Kiln chambers and a boiler formerly at the Kotka mill, which previously produced ThermoWood products, have been relocated to Uimaharju and are being installed with test-runs scheduled for mid-May.
Stora Enso said the relocation of the ThermoWood business would open up interesting development potential involving the joinery component mill at Uimaharju.
Meanwhile, at Stora Enso’s Bad St Leonard sawmill in Austria, a second CNC unit is currently under construction to meet growing demand for customised cross-laminated timber elements.
A new high frequency press at Ala sawmill in Sweden is designed to ensure consistent quality in gluing and improve utilisation capacity of a new finger-jointing line.
