Sveza’s plywood mills in the Kostroma Region invested in production facilities over 125 million rubles in 1H 2022

The mill in Manturovo has started up a new automated cutting line for making non-standard plywood sizes. The new line has high energy conservation and energy efficiency performance. The total cost of the project is 43 million rubles. The mill has already shipped the first large batch of plywood off the new line under a custom order.

The mill in Kostroma is working on an investment project to improve the quality of the finished plywood. The project involves installation of automatic moisture meters on four veneer-drying lines. The plan is to complete the modernization of all drying lines by the end of 2022. The mill has spent 60 million rubles on the equipment and installation.

Another quality assurance project in Kostroma involves managing peeling defects with the help of a neural network technology that detects the most common peeling defects in real time and tracks equipment downtime.

Before the year-end, Sveza’s mills in Manturovo and Kostroma will have completed several other production automation and modernization projects worth a total of 253 million rubles.