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SCA Timber subsidiary upgrades sawmill

Article by Robert Spannlang, edited for Timber-Online | 24.03.2015 - 07:43

€1.1m investment in control system and 3D-measurement unit

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Gällö Timber - Sweden"s "most recent wood products company" © Gällö Timber

Gällö Timber invests SEK 10 million (€1.1 million) in a new control system for the saw line, in a new three dimension log measuring system and in a system for turning and optimizing the yield of every single log. Gällö Timber is jointly owned by Persson Invest and SCA Timber and has since the start in 2010 invested more than SEK 60 million (€6.5 million) in the sawmill in Gällö/SE and during the same time increased the production by 100%.

Gällö Timber has a production capacity of 320,000 m³ of sawn timber of pine and spruce and a staff of 80.

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