Egypt Kuwait Holding (EKH) subsidiary Nile Wood has ordered from Dieffenbacher a complete MDF plant with \u201cCPS+\u201c continuous press for its greenfield site in Sadat City, Egypt. The order placed in September 2020 follows a development and engineering phase that began in late 2018.<\/p>\n
EKH was established in 1997 by a consortium of Kuwaiti and Egyptian businesspeople and has since become one of the fastest growing companies in the Middle East and Africa with investments in 19 companies. Nile Wood is EKH\u2019s first venture into the wood-based panels industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe first contacted Dieffenbacher at \u2018Ligna\u2019 2017 in Hannover and started serious project discussions a few months later,\u201d said Nile Wood CEO Walid El Hennawy. \u201cWe chose Dieffenbacher because we believed their experience and dedication could help us successfully enter the wood-based panels market. We\u2019re relying on Dieffenbacher to provide us with a high-end MDF line that will set the standard for wood-based panel production in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nile Wood will use Sesbania wood from its own plantations as the raw material for its MDF line. Sesbania is a fast-growing plant that matures for harvesting within two years and is environmentally friendly due to its ability to fix nitrogen. The water for the plantations is processed from urban waste water.<\/p>\n
The complete MDF plant for Nile Wood includes a \u201cCPS+\u201c continuous press, a chipping line, dryer, air grader and gluing system, forming station and forming line, raw board handling and storage, and a sanding and sawing line. MDF production is scheduled to start by the end of 2021. Operating under full load, the line will reach an annual production capacity of 200,000 m\u00b3.<\/p>\n
Nile Wood\u2019s \u201cCPS+\u201c will be the third in Africa. The 8 ft press has a length of 32.4 meters. The first \u201cCPS+\u201c sold in Africa was to Panneaux d\u2019Algerie in Algeria in 2019 for a new MDF plant. The second \u201cCPS+\u201c is being built for Ghamoud\u2019s new particleboard plant in Algeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dieffenbacher"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"galerie":[[]]}},"yoast_head":"\n