With a new sawmill, Tschopp is tripling its wood processing in the medium term. Vecoplan supplied the perfect technology to prepare the chips for disposal.

Tschopp manufacturers shuttering panels, and uses its wood residues for pellet production – although its plant capacities had long reached their limit. Its previous sawmill, which was designed to process 30,000 cubic metres per year, had been in operation since 1999. In recent years it had been processing 115,000 cubic metres, which led to the 2018 decision to invest in a new sawmill – which entered operation last May.
Tschopp said the new facility would enable its wood processing to triple in the medium term. Vecoplan supplied Tschopp with the perfect technology for this task.

Capacity limit significantly expanded
Technicians from suppliers and partner companies spent weeks commissioning the installed equipment in the 123-metre-long and 20-metre-high new building, said Tschopp.

“Our new sawmill is designed to process 350,000 cubic metres of wood per year. That’s also enough space to produce new wood-based materials,” said Birrer. This was not previously...