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The CLT production site HolzBauWerk Schwarzwald is to be started up in autumn 2022 © HolzBauWerk Schwarzwald

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First CLT production site in the Black Forest

Article by Günther Jauk (adapted for holzkurier.com; translated by Eva Guzely) | 03.03.2021 - 09:20

Three sawmills will build a CLT plant with an initial annual capacity of 35,000 m³.

Now it’s official: With the unveiling of the sign of HolzBauWerk Schwarzwald GmbH on March 1st, Peter Hauk, Minister for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg, gave the official go-ahead for the first industrial CLT production site in the Black Forest.

In Seewald-Besenfeld in the district Freudenstadt, 35,000 m³ of cross-laminated timber a year are to be produced in the first stage. Production is to start in autumn 2022 and in the medium term, 40 jobs are to be created. This according to a press release.

Thus, the feasibility study, originally commissioned by the Forum Weißtanne and a cooperation of the three Black Forest-based sawmills and processing companies Sägewerk Echtle (Nordrach), Kübler Holzwerk (Haiterbach) and Sägewerk Streit (Hausach), produced a positive result.

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