French flaxboard producer De Sutter Frères has installed a new Dieffenbacher EVOsifter P at its Biville-la-Rivière facility in France.
After less than three months of installation and commissioning, De Sutter Frères has signed the acceptance of the Dieffenbacher EVOsifter P, including a new zigzag sifter, at the Normandy plant.
De Sutter Frères’s new sifting technology improves a production process that suffered from an excessive proportion of impurities—stones, seeds and minerals—leading to increased saw wear and, in the case of oil-containing seeds, stains on the panels after coating.
The company’s managing director Albane de Sutter said Dieffenbacher carefully considered the characteristics of the company’s raw flax material in the design phase.
The German company demonstrated the EVOsifter P’s sifting capabilities to De Sutter Frères at its Eppingen facility and subsequently presented a multi-stage concept that met the customer’s production requirements.
Dieffenbacher’s EVOsifter P is primarily used in the particleboard and recycling industries to separate materials into three fractions (acceptable material, coarse material and foreign material).
De Sutter Frères produces the Sanopan brand of flaxboard. The product is designed as a good heat insulator and soundproofing material, with Sanopan notably used to manufacture the doors of the Stade de France, the new European Parliament in Luxemburg and the French Ministry of Finance at Bercy.
