Balaji Buildwell on a Roll After Signing New MDF Plant
Wood News|January/February 2017

Action Tesa, an Indian conglomerate with a diverse product spectrum, recently announced that it had ordered a forming and press line, including a 8x27-metre ContiRoll press, as well as other components, such as the sifter, cooling and stacking line, and a high-stack storage system, for an MDF/HDF plant.

Balaji Buildwell on a Roll After Signing New MDF Plant

The contract was signed in the name of Balaji Action Buildwell, and the supplier is the German group, Siempelkamp, which is a technology systems supplier of machine and plant engineering of press lines and complete plants for the wood-based panel industry.

Action Tesa has played a leading role in numerous industries – including steel and energy, chemical, real estate, health care, and electronics industries – for several years and has already applied several innovations in the area of wood-based material production in India. This includes the first MDF/HDF plant for thin boards and the largest particleboard plant.

The installation of the new plant – designed for a daily production capacity of 750 cubic metres – is scheduled to begin mid-2017 and will manufacture boards with a thickness ranging from 2mm to 35mm.

In the wood-based materials industry it is well positioned in the production of MDF/HDF and particleboard, and has to date manufactured them on both multi-opening and calendar presses. The boards produced comply with the emission standards E1 and E0 for formaldehyde.

The equipment includes, for example, impregnation lines for melamine papers, powder coating facilities, door skin and short cycle press lines. Now, for the first time, Action Tesa has decided on continuous board production.

Furniture market

The foundation for this cooperation goes back a few years to IndiaWood when the two companies first interacted. Today, this stands out as another example of an Indian company responding to the fast changes and subsequent challenges and opportunities that emerging markets like India are throwing up.

“We are looking forward to enhancing our scope of supply with a plant according to the well-known German level of quality and to expanding our technological advance,” says Mr. Vivek Jain, Director, Action Tesa.

This story is from the January/February 2017 edition of Wood News.

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