The last six months' sales to Germany and Austria amount to an order value of just over EUR 24,7 million for Valutec, which supplies kilns to the sawmill industry. The company has sold a total of ten continuous lumber kilns to the markets during the period, which is a fourfold increase compared to the annual average over the last five years.

Many of us will soon be taking a short break for the Christmas and new year holidays before a new business year begins. Even though 2020 hardly turned out the way we all expected, Valutec can think of three reasons why we should look forward to 2021. We're talking smarter processes, the sustainability benefits of wood, and faith in the future.

One hour's fan rotation reversal has long been the standard in modern batch kilns. All the same, there have been few proper studies into how lumber is affected by fan reversal time. Because changing fan rotation parameters in the control system is easy, Valutec, Luleå University of Technology and RISE wanted to conduct a study within the Bioinnovation project into whether a longer reversing time can help improve the drying process.

Germany's best wood SCHNEIDER is investing around EUR 80 million in a completely new sawmill in Messkirch. The sawmill will have an annual capacity of 200,000 m3 (85,000 MBF) of sawn lumber. All lumber drying will be performed in four OTC model continuous kilns from Sweden's Valutec.