Egger opens 16^th plant of the group in Romania

In the middle of September the Austrian wood materials manufacturer Egger, www.egger.com, officially opened the 16^th plant of the group in the Romanian town of Radauti. The plant has a capacity of 600,000 m³ per year. Roughly 80 percent of this is further refined and reaches the market in the form of melamine coated chipboards (Mfc boards). On the one hand Egger ensures the sustainability and environmental friendliness of the production processes through most up-to-date production lines and on the other hand these in turn guarantee the best possible quality of the products: Production start already in January 2008. The high degree of commitment and the team spirit that was put into the project by Egger also manifest in the speed at which the location was brought to production start: Only a little over a year after the first ground-breaking in October 2006, the coating of boards has already started in December 2007. The production of chipboard as well as two short cycle coating plants are running since January.
An impregnation plant with a capacity of 45 million. m² of decor paper has gone into operation at the end of August. By this means, Radauti will become independent from the supply of impregnated materials from other Egger plants. This creates the requirements for in future being able to further refine even more raw chipboards through coating with melamine resin. For this purpose, in the coming November a tandem press will additionally be taken into operation, with which the coating capacities of the plant will increase from 14 million m² to 28 million m².
The location is currently in its first expansion stage, with plants for the manufacture of raw and coated chipboards. The 76 hectares large site however provides potential for further expansion.
The determining factor for the construction of the plant at its current location was amongst other things the proximity to the upcoming Eastern European markets in Poland, White Russia, Romania and the Ukraine.