Asperbras plans to launch MDF mill in 2017
16 December 2014The Brazilian company, Asperbras, is planning to launch a 220,000m3/year MDF mill in the interior state of Mato Grasso do Sul in 2017.
The Sao Paulo-based industrial and agribusiness group, which recently ordered a complete Siempelkamp ContiRoll board line for the mill at Agua Clara, intends later to add a second 460,000m3/year panel line on the site.
The Asperbras plant should be fully self-sufficient in wood by 2019 following a local eucalyptus forest plantation programme.
The firm, which already has some plantations, intends to plant 12,000ha around Agua Clara by the end 2015, of which 7,000ha will be growing by the end of this year.
Investment of almost US$136m is being made in the MDF facility, with an additional US$34m destined for the acquisition of forest and plantation schemes.
