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.

Hardboard, Product introduction, Lumber industry, Uniboard Canada

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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.

Process control instruments, Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables, All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing, Industrial Machinery and Equipment, Industrial Machinery NEC, Process Control Parts & Accessories, Industrial equipment, Contracts, Buildings and facilities, Process control equipment, Control equipment industry, Zehoma GmbH, Eltomation

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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.

Production management, Gautier France S.A.

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