Raute Corporation has received orders worth over Euro 21 million for the machinery and equipment for the expansion of UPM Plywood’s mill in Chudovo, Russia.

The scope of delivery includes the main machinery and equipment of the plywood manufacturing process: veneer peeling, drying, composing and patching lines, and also plywood lay-up, pressing and overlaying lines. The deal also includes machine vision and moisture analyzers.

The deliveries will take place during the autumn 2018 and production with the new lines will start during the year 2019. The machinery and equipment will be manufactured at Raute’s Nastola and Kajaani plants in Finland.

The machinery and equipment ordered from Raute are a part of the Chudovo mill investment program, through which the annual capacity of the mill will be increased up to 155,000 cubic meters.

Raute is a technology and service company that operates worldwide. Raute’s customers are companies operating in the wood products industry that manufacture veneer, plywood, LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) and sawn timber.