Söderhamn Eriksson has signed a contract with James Jones & Sons in Scotland for the delivery of machinery worth some €11 million. The order comprises debarking, log intake, sawline, edging and waste handling. The sawline features the most advanced technology for log and cant feeding, reducing, band sawing and edging and will produce 140,000 cu/m lumber/shift and year with full optimisation.

Great emphasis has been given to the creation of a processing line that minimises production cost through optimization of the profit obtained from each log and through maximum versatility. James Jones & Sons is investing a total of about EUR 55 million in the new plant at its sawmill in Lockerbie. The company has a turnover of more than €100 million and 495 employees. By investing in the new sawline, which will be one of Europe’s most modern and technically advanced, James Jones & Sons reinforces its role as an important actor on the British sawmill market. This sawline will be the fifth plant Söderhamn Eriksson has delivered to James Jones & Sons. The machinery will be shipped early in 2009 and started up on September 1 of the same year.