Raute has received orders worth more than €1m from Russia’s Ilim Bratsk DOK for, among other items, two state-of-the-art peeling lines and two drying lines to be delivered to Bratsk, Siberia, by the end of 2011.
Raute, of Nastola, Finland, said that one of its first-ever mill-scale deliveries was made in 1970 to Bratsk.
Ilim Bratsk DOK’s plywood mill in Bratsk is Russia’s largest softwood plywood mill, with annual production capacity of approximately 200,000m3. The raw material used is mainly Siberian pine and larch.
The current investment is the first in a large-scale modernisation plan and the new equipment will entirely replace the mill’s current veneer production.
The machinery and equipment will be manufactured at Raute’s main production unit in Nastola, and by its partner network, except for the machine vision system, which will be made at the Kajaani unit in Finland.
