Continuous improvement describes the philosophy of the family-owned German wood products company, Best Wood Schneider. Seven years ago, it embarked on an ambitious greenfield project at Meßkirch to establish an automated end-to-end process of manufacturing its range of passive house timber construction products, from logs to finished goods.
Managing director Ferdinand Schneider says the new sawmill is approaching full load operations, and the new cross laminated timber (CLT) plant is being commissioned. The planned sawmill output is 350,000m3/year, and after the final expansion CLT production will reach an output of 100,000m3/year.
In addition to solid structural timber (KVH), glulam, glued laminated timber and box girder elements, the fifth generation run company offers its customers wood fibre insulation systems and comprehensive planning and consulting services. Schneider says the only product it could not supply to its approximately 5,000 active timber construction customers was large format CLT panels.
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