Quebec MDF pioneer strives for market niche
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Uniboard Canada, already a pioneer in the medium-density fiberboard field, has introduced an innovative high-density fiberboard (HDF) product that it calls MultiLook Prestige. The product is produced using specialized technology that helps it resist moisture. The fiberboard company is diverting a growing share of its mill output to Canadian and American markets to meet increasing domestic demand. Uniboard is using two-stage refining to yield HDF panels with improved machinability.
Publication Name: Wood Technology
Subject: Forest products industry
ISSN: 1067-1064
Year: 1996
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Updated German plant 'Europe's most modern.' (Zehoma GmbH)
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Eastern Germany's Zehoma GmbH has updated its cement-bonded particleboard (CBPB) plant, raising its capacity by 20%, improving its efficiency, reducing its downtime, and improving board quality. The plant, which technical manager Werner Nehrig called Europe's most modern, reopened in Nov 1994, following a four-month revamping. Eltomation, of the Netherlands, supplied automation equipment for the plant.
Publication Name: Wood Technology
Subject: Forest products industry
ISSN: 1067-1064
Year: 1995
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Panel plant supplies French furniture firm
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Gauthier, a division of Seribo Group, makes furniture from particleboard at a plant located in Chantonnay, France. The particleboard is made at a different plant in the same complex with softwoods purchased on the open market and then cut at the furniture plant. The particleboard plant uses 15% sawdust for the boards and the boards are made with a Bison forming machine.
Publication Name: Wood Technology
Subject: Forest products industry
ISSN: 1067-1064
Year: 1997
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