Unopar: a fiber board plant competitive and clean

The plant already produces 350 m3 per day board

Unopar: a fiber board plant competitive and clean

Unopar breaks into the market with significant competitive advantages: raw material next, abundant and high quality, highly automated plant (generates 200.000 square meters of covered vessels. On June 5, 2008, International Day for the Environment, Unopar produced its first board.

Designed for double

The installation has been conceived and designed to be duplicated.000 m3 of fiber board with 75 people on staff) and dry cleaning of the chip (thanks to the extraordinary quality of the wood).

Covering an area of 20 hectares in the municipality of Burgos Salas de los Infantes is located Unopar spectacular and impressive.The project started three years ago, with a direct investment of 78 million, aided by 30% by the Junta de Castilla y León.
In July 2006 earthworks began (had to move half a million cubic meters of soil), and in January 2007 the foundation of 24.
Unopar has created 75 direct jobs, which in turn, allow another 3 or 4 each indirect, to do work and supply issue, mainly.Power plant, shredder, dryer ... production line store ... all areas of the factory has an area annexed to multiply its capacity by two in the future.18% of the workforce is female, the entire staff of the district and 80% have technical qualifications.
The plant consumes electricity of a 24-megawatt substation mounted to Unopar by Iberdrola and the Junta de Castilla y León.The power consumption of the plant is very large (the motor has an output of the shredder 6 MW), used to understand these figures refer to the substation that feeds the town of Salas de los Infantes has a capacity of only 3 MW.
Board production line, finishing line and dryer are Dieffenbacher technology. The power plant Unopar, signature INTEC is the largest of Castile and Leon and generates only 50 megawatts thermal biomass.

Extreme Automation

One of the great competitive advantages of Unopar is its high degree of automation achieved on the basis of the experience of the company's own engineers Burgos: Andres Medrano (Director General) and four technicians from the house, led by the current director of the plant, Carlos Navarro.And the heart of Unopar your shredder is the mark ANDRITZ, also responsible for the machinery of the timber park.
This, the latest German technology generation, which we should add the collaboration of over 200 companies (civil works, compressed air, oil, water, industrial ...).The press, which determines the production capacity of the factory, measuring 34 meters (expandable to 42). Path is necessary to ensure that heat and pressure to cure the glue and get on board continuously.
Rest in turning the tables to cool and heal before being stacked. Here are one or two days in a warehouse for interim stabilization.
The shredder works with a motor SIEMENS HP of 8160, equivalent to 6 megawatts electric. Here, a grinding wheel rotates at 1500 revolutions per minute against the other, which is fixed, only tenths of a millimeter away, producing 30 tons per hour of continuous fiber at which he is injecting glue, wax, hardener, and urea in each case, the board color to green or red water for fire-retardant.At no time has any hand touched or handled the product or its materials.

Raw material selection

Unopar is capable of producing 200.There still might suffer some decline, bringing its final sizing and squaring it out in a finishing line that represents the end of the manufacturing process of the board.
Absolutely the whole process is run from a control room, from the silos, power plant, the shredder, the production line until the fire detection systems.
Made and treated fiber is dried to 10% moisture and dry-cleaned by density. Once conditioned, the basic material of the board Unopar form a 'blanket' and continues to be pre-pressed before acquiring the look of a board.
Seen from the church in the neighboring town of overcrowding, the park wood Unopar (100,000 m3 capacity) is impressive. Today it houses a collection of 30.In the Sierra de la Demanda, there are over 60 sawmills, the wood chips and pine thin clear from the first core of Unopar (plant currently consumes 70% of roundwood and 30% chip, approximately).000 m3, which has a stock to run for two months. Using a fully automated process, the roll of pine is peeling and chipped, the chip produced and purchased a sawmill was moved to two huge silos (6.000 m3 of green chips in total) to ensure that the plant five days of stock (it is necessary to avoid a long bridge or a heavy snowfall, as Unopar does not stop at any time to work 5 shifts: 24 hours 365 days year).

A clean

Unopar + zero = zero waste emissions.000 euros per year.
The Group is currently INTERBON logging company more powerful in the region has seven teams composed of mechanical processing and self-cutting wood and two manuals for the 2 factories board, within a radius of 150 kilometers supply.
The dry cleaning of the chip (due to the high quality of raw materials), Unopar to avoid having to make the costly process of sewage treatment that could be around 600.Unopar The only residue is the ash of the boiler, which is reused to generate even land for composting and landfill sealing, a fertilizer that is poor and inert harmless to the environment.000 cubic meters of fibreboard MDF andalusia years, 3 to 40 mm. thickness, which requires 400,000 cubic meters of wood. The plant operates with 100% pine wood, "explains the strategic decision to locate here Unopar" says its director, Carlos Navarro, our view is a product of the highest quality, and here we have the best raw materials, and very nearby, which is a competitive advantage. "
The power plant of the factory produces no emissions. The gases generated by the boiler to 700 ° are used to heat more than 100,000 liters of oil for heat radiation and convection, are purged after 12 multi-and mixed with outside air to lower its temperature to 200 º, suitable temperature for drying the fiber in dryer.
Unopar no threat to the forest environment. According to the Third Inventory conducted in Castilla y Leon, the forest grows 7.3 million cubic meters every year, and are only cut every 1.5 years (20% of what it offers the bush).
A 1.6 MW fan drives over 450,000 m3 of hot air along with the fiber that comes from the shredder. The fiber enters the dryer at 5 seconds and rises 130 meters from a tube which fall under its own weight, whereas the formation of water from the fiber over which he has been injected into the process comes in the form of fibers steam vents, to 55 meters in height: "Up there is where the technicians of the Castile and Leon performs the measurement of emissions from the Director concludes Unopar, there is no choice but to comply with the regulations."The industry calls on government (and it has launched a mobilization of resources) to remove more wood from the mountain, because there is a consumption capacity for it, and thus need not be imported from other communities.Unopar going to be in January.

Synergy with INTERBON

Unopar is close to his sister INTERBON, which facilitates the synergies between them.
INTERBON factory was the first board of the Iberian Peninsula and the third company in the timber with the seal PEFC certified chain of custody.
"The board of fiber is the product we needed," says Carlos Navarro, is a perfect complement to our market. Having him is a very important tool for our business, we open new markets, which is a key to the future, opens the door to export and we are doing to Central Europe, Israel, North Africa, Portugal, etc.."
The fibreboard sold much about their looks. Andalusia andalusia hundred percent made with pine wood (hardwood or bark without obscuring the grain and increase their abrasive), the board Unopar is very abrasive and white only.Both share the areas of administration, trade, logistics and forest management. "We consume the queue and there INTERBON and send the hardwood timber that is not well-informed bare-Carlos Navarro, to change us and biomass covers part of our board."Their measures are 1.22 to 2.44 meters wide and 1.22 to 5.70 meters in length and thickness of 3 to 40 millimeters.
"The mold is 50% of the fiber board, is a market that is declining in Spain due to falling construction, and the segment of the door now, but it will move forward with the development of many other applications in the molding industry concludes Carlos Navarro.Also, the fiber board and flooring rechapar to have fallen over 50% in our country. In fact, Unopar exports and 50% of its production, and this road also open the way to mark the outside of the particle board of INTERBON.