Swiss company Blumer Lehmann expands its product range with CLT and BSH

Blumer Lehmann, a leading manufacturer in eastern Switzerland, recently announced that it is expanding the product range of its wood industry division. The company will start production of CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) and products from glued laminated wood BSH (Brettschichtholz).

The new production facilities will enable 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 start up 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 transportation 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 finger-joining plant, and will be incorporated directly into the prefabricated modules produced by the company.

The new finger-jointing plant is an important step in the complete wood utilization cycle implemented by Blumer Lehmann in Erlenhof. It will enable the company to process even lower grades of timber into high-value products in-house. The wood waste resulting from the processing will also be recovered as pellets. The expansion of the production capacities is part of a large modernization project implemented by Blumer Lehmann at the Erlenhof plant.

Founded in 1875 as a small lumber firm by Leonhard Lehmann, the company has evolved over five generations from a simple joiner to a major group of companies specializing in wood processing and construction. Today, the Blumer Lehmann Group is active in areas as diverse as timber construction and subassemblies, silo construction and technology, pellet production, renewable energy and complex CNC machining, and is an international promoter of creative and sustainable use of wood.

Source Blumer Lehmann