New CLT production at Schilliger Holz in Küssnacht

Schilliger Holz AG can proudly say: 
Now everything goes fully automatic: From quality sorting, finger-jointing, joining of the top layers, gluing of large-sized panels to cutting to size and packaging. All layers are continuously side glued. The core piece is a MINDA CLT press, thanks to which even large quantities of large size panels in interesting dimensions can be produced at advantageous delivery conditions. Thus Schilliger Holz AG is also prepared for the international market.

Schilliger Holz AG is a Swiss family business that has been operating internationally since 1861, processing local wood from sustainably managed forests. The company focuses on innovation and competence in the production of sawn or solid wood, planed goods, glued wood or Schilliger solid wood boards. The customer can obtain a variety of timber products for his entire timber construction project from one source. Cost saving, in high quality and with shortest delivery time.

A fire destroyed the directly adjacent panel factory. It was decided at short notice to rebuild the plant using state-of-the-art technology. The goal was a flexible plant conception for large size CLT boards on a production area of only 6,500 m².
MINDA convinced with its overall conception tailor-made for Schilliger. The high-speed press TimberPress X 134 HS is the centrepiece of the line being able to press panels of 14 m length, 3.40 m width and a thickness of 27 to 400 mm. This press system has been specially designed for large throughput volumes also allowing flexible order-oriented production up to a batch size 1. 
 

But also the ingenious high-bay warehouse for semi-finished and finished goods convinced the decision makers of Schilliger Holz. A flexible storage concept is based on the one used in the GLT plant and, with a height of 30 m, offers space for approx. 13,000 m² boards. In order to transport the finished cross laminated timber elements weighing up to 9 t to a height of almost 30 m, MINDA installed a four-column vertical lift with a payload of 10 t.

Nils Begemann, sales representative for this project, praises the cooperative partnership with Tobias Osterwalder, the plant manager of the finishing department at Schilliger. 

Managing Director Ernest Schilliger is very satisfied with the cooperation with MINDA in this project, as MINDA had kept all promises.