Innovative technology: 2026 launch of a line of furniture panels: reducing waste and increasing efficiency

The furniture board line is scheduled to start up in 2026.

Furniture board is a board lumber made of individual wooden boards (lamellas) pre-dried in a factory chamber to the required percentage of moisture, which are then glued together under pressure and sanded.

Furniture boards are a demanded and popular material, which is widely used for the manufacture of durable stairs, window sills, slabs, cabinet furniture, for interior decoration. How capricious is this material in application and operation? After all, opinions about it are quite contradictory: someone praises it, and someone complains with rapture about dried out "curves" instead of beautiful furniture and strongly does not recommend it.

Environmentally friendly and safe: Solid wood lamellas are used as the basis for the furniture board, which are joined together using glue. Modern production uses safe adhesives. High strength: The board is glued together from individual parts. This ensures that there are no internal stresses, which are typical of a conventional board, and high strength is ensured. For this reason, furniture boards are well suited for the manufacture of stair treads and other elements subjected to heavy loads.

Aesthetics: The appearance fully reflects the beautiful wood structure, so the material looks as good as solid wood and is appropriate in any, even premium, segment.

In 2023 the following construction was completed: boiler house building No.3, finished products warehouse, foundry and mechanical building (veneer production shop), iron foundry building, plant management building, open shed (4 sawmills), open shed (Hangar), railway access roads, fencing of the plant territory, technological site No.1 for drying complex, technological site No.2 for drying complex. The following equipment was put into operation: video surveillance system, veneer production line No. 3, 4t, 6t, 8t steam generating plant, sawdust removal system 2 units, dryer for wood veneer, four-sided longitudinal milling machine, fire alarm system. As a result of the performed works in 2023 the enterprise attracted investments in the amount of 118190,22 thousand rubles.

A KRAFTER sawing line (Russian-made equipment) was installed in 2023, and a pelletising line from NPO Mekhanika-Trans (also Russian-made) is scheduled to be launched in 2024. The acquisition is planned under the Leasing Project from the Industrial Development Fund, total planned investment volume of 188 million rubles.

In October 2023, a site was established on the basis of LLC ForestGrand, functioning as Correctional Centre No. 4, with 130 beds. It currently houses about 40 people who are employed by the company.

The specified equipment will allow LLC "ForestGrand" in the long term to completely switch over to waste-free production and to produce high level products: veneer (5 thousand m3), dry sawn timber (60 thousand m3), mouldings (8 thousand m3), pellets (18 thousand tonnes), furniture board (3 thousand m3).