Siempelkamp and Metro Ply Group: fourth plant

A current milestone in the framework of a good and trusting cooperation: recently Metro Ply Group and Siempelkamp signed the contract for the supply of a new particleboard plant with “Generation 9 ContiRoll” to the Metro site in Surat Thani (800 km from Bangkok). Thus, both partners realize the fourth joint project in total and the third specifically in the particleboard production segment. The start of assembly of the newly ordered particleboard plant is planned for the beginning of 2022.

Metro, one of the largest wood-based material producers in Southeast Asia and the largest particleboard producer in the region, decided for a particleboard plant made by Siempelkamp for the third time. The scope of supply includes the forming and press line including a ContiRoll, board handling, and interim storage. The Siempelkamp subsidiary Büttner contributes the energy plant and the dryer. Pallmann, the size reduction specialist within the Siempelkamp Group, supplies the complete portfolio of size reduction machines for particleboard production – chipper, flaker, and double stream mill.

The current order is the second that Metro placed with Siempelkamp within 18 months. At the end of October 2019, the Thai company had placed an order for a new forming and press line for an mdf plant at the Kanchanburi location. “We are pleased to have supported Metro with our plant concepts for almost 20 years now, and to start a new phase of our cooperation with the current order“, says Henning Gloede, Managing Director Siempelkamp Singapore.