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Timberpak LLC, a subsidiary of Davidson County, North Carolina-based Egger Wood Products, has purchased a wood recycling facility to provide more raw materials to support its Lexington plant.
The company’s purchase of Novem Industries Inc., based in Charlotte, North Carolina, will enhance the mission of Egger to create more from wood and promote sustainability, The Dispatch reports.
“This acquisition will not only serve an important role in bolstering our sustainability initiatives here in North America but [also] will better position us in key markets as we continue to expand and grow,” says Markus Frevert, plant manager for production at EGGER. “Timberpak will process postconsumer recycled materials to be used in the production of particleboard and thermally-fused laminate (TFL) products at our Lexington manufacturing plant. This diverts resources that would have otherwise gone to landfills.”
In 2021, Egger announced it was building a new $30 million recycling facility, with an estimated completion in early 2023. The company’s acquisition of Novem will transition its European-based processes to instead supply raw materials for the plant’s on-site wood recycling operation.
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Egger currently uses recycled materials, such as sawdust and wood chips from sawmills or other wood producers, to make particle board and TFL products. As reported by The Dispatch, the upcoming recycling facility will include large-scale grinders and sifters to allow for the recycling of wood-based construction waste, including boxes, pallets and trimmed wood.
Timberpak will accept construction and demolition waste wood, in addition to packaging waste, from distribution centers for industrial manufacturing. The wood will be ground into roughly 1-foot pieces prior to delivery to Egger’s production plant.
There, the recycled wood will be screened for metal, stones, plastic and other foreign materials before it is crushed into appropriately sized chips for particle board production.
Timberpak’s Charlotte location will continue to serve Novem’s existing customer base and retain its current employees. The plant will be an addition to Egger’s existing waste wood collection operations in the United Kingdom, Romania, France, Germany and Poland.
EGGER operates 21 plants globally, including Egger Wood Products LLC in Lexington, the company’s first production facility in North America. The particleboard manufacturing plant, with TFL lamination capacity, started production in September 2020.
