Blumer Lehmann, a leading manufacturer in eastern Switzerland, recently announced that it is expanding its product range in its wood industry division. The company will start production of CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) and products from glued laminated timber BSH (Brettschichtholz).
The new production facilities will allow the company to offer CLT and BSH semi-finished products for the construction industry. The production line for BSH glued laminated timber is scheduled to come on stream in September 2025, while the first CLT panels will be produced in the company's own gluing plant from June 2026.
The integration of CLT and BSH production will bring significant environmental benefits by reducing CO2 emissions due to the elimination of transport along the supply chain. The logs will be delivered directly to the Blumer Lehmann plant, where they will be processed into lumber and then into panels in the new gluing plant, to be incorporated directly into prefabricated modules produced by the company.
The new gluing plant is an important step in the complete cycle of wood utilisation implemented by Blumer Lehmann at Erlenhof. It will enable the company to process even inferior timber grades in-house into high-value products. The wood waste from processing will also be recovered as 100% pellets. The expansion of production capacities is part of a large modernisation project implemented by Blumer Lehmann at the Erlenhof plant.
Founded in 1875 as a small sawmill by Leonhard Lehmann, the company has evolved over five generations from a simple joiner to a major group of companies specialising in timber processing and construction. Today, the Blumer Lehmann Group is active in areas as diverse as timber construction and sub-assemblies, silo construction and technology, pellet production, renewable energy and complex CNC machining, and is an international promoter of the creative and sustainable use of wood.
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