With an 8’x78.6-metre press format, the new MDF plant is the longest ever developed by Siempelkamp for the Australian wood-based panel producer, Australian Panels.

The new MDF plant is the sixth Siempelkamp plant opted by the company and the Siempelkamp particleboard plant will be the largest in Australia

with an annual capacity of over 650,000 cubic metres.

With the new, sixth order, the number of Siempelkamp equipment at Australian Panels increases to four MDF plants and two plants for particleboard.

The new order includes the forming and press line and the scope of supply also includes the competence of three Siempelkamp subsidiaries: Pallmann

supplies a drum chipper, CMC Texpan a wood chip screening system, and Büttner contributes a drying system.

The raw material used will be light Pinus Radiata – a non-porous coniferous wood that is particularly suitable as a feed material to produce fibreboard and particleboard. The MDF plant will be delivered in May 2025 and production is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2026.

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