OSB ADVANCED – Siempelkamp receives major greenfield order from Russia
CLSC “Murom”, located in Murom, about 300 km east of Moscow, began producing plywood in 1929 and boylenit boards/bakelite plywood for the aviation industry in the 1940s. The production of particleboard began in the 1960s. Undergoing massive expansion of its production capacities for plywood until 2010, the manufacturer is now one of the leading wood-based material producers in Russia and currently exports to 29 countries worldwide. With its new production plant, CLSC “Murom” is expanding its product range with OSB boards.
Originally developed as a substitute for plywood, OSB is now considered a perfect complement to the construction board range, as it can be used permanently in both dry and wet rooms. With the product OSB ADVANCED and the new plant, JSC “Murom” will fully utilize round timber resources used in plywood production for its wood-based material production, thus saving considerable production costs. With OSB ADVANCED, CJSC “Murom” will be able to offer a formaldehyde-free OSB board which, due to its outstanding mechanical properties, is increasingly used in interior design as well as in the furniture industry.
The scope of the JSC “Murom” contract with Siempelkamp covers all raw material processing, from round timber thawing technology through debarking to the production of top and mid-layer ranges, supplied by the youngest Siempelkamp subsidiary Pallmann from Zweibrücken. Büttner will supply a drum dryer that has been specially developed to meet material requirements, as well as an energy system that is fully integrated into the process chain. By using wood waste, the energy plant not only supplies the process heat for round timber conditioning, material drying and the ContiRoll® hot plates, but also ensures enough power to heat the production halls.
The Italian Siempelkamp subsidiary CMC will supply the complete material processing, including filtering, gluing and sprinkling technology. The entire planning engineering, carried out by Sicoplan from Belgium, is based on millimeter-accurate CAD data generated using laser scans. To this end, the Belgian Siempelkamp subsidiary measured the future site with state-of-the-art drone technology, among other methods, to ensure planning reliability based on the actual local conditions.
Siempelkamp from Krefeld will produce the core of the plant – the ContiRoll® Generation 9, with a length of 30.4 m and a production width of 8.5´. This ultra-modern continuous press offers numerous technical innovations. For example, even the smallest deviations in product tolerance are detected immediately and eliminated at their origin through ultrafast control technology, completely decoupled from external process influences. This procedure ensures nearly zero-defect production. Also standard in the current series is the newly developed ContiRoll Ecodrive technology with a two-stage gear train. The servomotor system offers an energy-saving potential of at least 7% in full-load operation and up to 14% energy savings in partial-load operation – with top efficiency levels. Last but not least, Siempelkamp’s scope of delivery also includes the finishing line, connected to an automated warehouse system.
With the new investment, CJSC “Murom” will produce 50,000 m² of OSB ADVANCED boards daily, mainly for national demand. This will more than double the production capacity of CJSC “Murom” to 550,000 m³ annually. The start of installation at the plant is already planned for the fourth quarter of 2018. Commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2019 and regular production will get underway in the spring of 2020.
