EBRD wants to support Kronospan’s OSB project

Construction work on the particleboard works planned by the Kronospan group in Tortosa, Spain, is still on schedule. Building work of the currently 254,000 m² site started at the beginning of January 2022. After preparatory earthworks, work on building the production halls and warehouses began in February....

Swiss Krono TOB, a member of the Swiss Krono Group, is planning to restart two of its three Ukrainian plants in May 2022: Kamianka-Buzka in the Lviv region in west of the country and Broshniv-Osada in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The OSB plant in Kamianka-Buzka had undergone a maintenance shutdown in February; the...

Louisiana-Pacific Corp (Nashville, Tennessee) has finally abandoned plans to convert its OSB plant in Val-d’Or (Québec, Canada) to sidings; the plant has been shut down since mid-2012. According to information from Radio Canada, the site is to be sold to wood-based panels manufacturer Uniboard Canada Inc. (Laval,...