Major breakthrough for Valutec in Russia – Ilim Timber in Ust-Ilimsk to modernize three progressive kilns
Ilim Timber, one of the world’s largest sawmilling groups, invests in the modernization of progressive kilns. Valutec will convert three of Ilim’s existing 1-zone kilns to modern 2-zone progressive kilns. “We need to increase our capacity and quality. Valutec came up with an impressive solution. By converting existing 1-zone kilns to modern 2-zone kilns we will gain significantly more capacity and major increase in our drying quality in a very cost-effective way,”says Viktor Melnik at Ilim Timber.Ilim Timber is Russia’s major producer of larch and pine sawn timber and biggest exporter of
