The Swiss veneer and sawmill operator Lanz is planning to cease sliced and stay log veneer production at the end of 2012. This will mark the closure of Switzerland's final sliced veneer production facility. Veneer trading activities are to continue until 2014 so that Lanz can sell off its inventories of around 700,000 m² of veneers. The site will then be cleared and likely be home to residential buildings in the future. Mr Galliker said that the strong Swiss franc against the euro was one reason for the closure. This factor had reduced veneer sales in and contract production orders from neighbouring countries. The company did not gain as many additional clients as expected after the demise of competitors. In addition, Mr Galliker said that production costs were too high to run a veneer mill at a profit in Switzerland.
Switzerland's last sliced veneer mill to stop production
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