Algeria’s first continuous particleboard plant has produced its first board on a new Dieffenbacher line.
Algerian wood-based panel manufacturer Ghamoud celebrated the first board on January 18 in El Eulma in the province of Sétif.
The plant is equipped with a 13m-long CPS+ continuous press designed to produce 100,000m³ of particleboard per year.
Dieffenbacher, together with its Chinese subsidiary Shanghai Wood-based Panel Machinery (SWPM), developed a plant concept tailored for Ghamoud. It also supplied everything from flaking, through the dryer, the gluing system and forming station, to the raw board handling system and sanding line.
“Dieffenbacher designed our new plant for a smaller capacity—perfectly suited to our market and with the corresponding positive effects on our budget,” says Mohamed Ghamoud, owner and managing director of the family-owned company.
“The plant is the ideal entry-level system for newcomers like us to the wood-based panel market,” he adds.
“What Mohamed Ghamoud and his family have achieved here in northern Algeria, despite all the adversities, commands my utmost respect,” explained Didier Goesaert, area sales director at Dieffenbacher.
“Challenges arose time and again during the course of the project, and time and again the Ghamoud family overcame them to bring the project to a successful conclusion. I take my hat off to them.”
Ghamoud’s particleboard plant is one of four continuous wood-based panel plants delivered by Dieffenbacher to North Africa in recent years.
In May 2022, Panneaux d’Algerie’s MDF plant in El Tarf, Algeria, went into operation. In June 2025, Nile Wood produced the first board on its complete Dieffenbacher MDF line in Sadat City, Egypt.
Also in Egypt, the world’s first line for producing MDF from date palm fronds for the National Service Projects Organization will soon go into operation.
