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Norway’s Forestia, the specialist in particle board products for the construction industry, continues to expand its range of easy-to-use and time-saving panels.

Forestia AS is one of the leading suppliers of particle board in the Nordic region. The company produces particle boards in various thicknesses and sizes for flooring, interior walls, and ceilings. It also supplies particle boards, both foiled and unfoiled, for the furniture industry, and I-Beams. At its 21,000 sq m facility at Braskereidfoss, Norway, Forestia has a production capacity of 300.000 sq m of particle board per year. The ability to adapt has been one of the fundamentals of Forestia’s operations for over 45 years. It has always focused on continuous product development and ensured that quality assurance at all levels is given the highest priority.

Today Forestia is able to combine its long experience with very high product quality and excellent logistics systems. Through close cooperation with customers and other partners, it works continuously to further develop products and solutions.

Forestia has been part of Norway’s Byggma Group ASA since 2006. With some 670 employees, Byggma ASA is one of the leading suppliers of building materials to building suppliers and chains in Norway. The group includes well-known companies such as Huntonit, Uldal, Smartpanel, Byggform, Scan Lamps, Aneta and Masonite Beams as well as Forestia.

extensive product range

Forestia’s current product range includes Forestia One-Step Wall, a foil covered, 600mm wide wall panel with lengths between 2390mm and 4200mm. The panel has tongue and groove with a v-joint on the long sides. Forestia One-Step Wall is available in a number of decors. The panels can be used as a cladding material in all buildings where the requirement for reaction to fire performance is D-s2,d0. Forestia One-Step Wall can also be used as ceiling panels, thanks to its long lengths.

Walls4You is a high-quality chipboard for walls with top quality stylish pre-applied wallpaper. A wide selection of wallpapers is available. Its Walls2Paint product is a pre-papered wall panel that is ready for painting. There is therefore no need for plastering and finishing and the panels are easy to fit and can be painted in any colour.

Forestia’s One-Step ceiling is a foil-covered panel, profiled on all four sides with tongue and groove and v-joint. The panels can be used in all rooms where there are no requirements for moistureresistant materials. The One-Step ceiling can be washed with any standard non-greasy detergent. The boards are also suitable for the fitting of downlights.

Forestia Elitex is a range of extra-strong wall panels specially designed to withstand rough treatment. The melamine-coated panels are suitable for storerooms, garages, mechanical rooms, farm laundry rooms, dairies, bakehouses or other business activities. They also have a moistureresistant core which has been tried and tested for over 40 years and are now equipped with a locking profile and in a new colour, grey slate. In addition to being robust and suitable for screws, they are also suitable where requirements for hygiene/cleaning are essential.

Click-in sub flooring

In 2018 Forestia significantly enhanced its offer to customers with the launch of particle board subfloors with a specially developed version of the 2G locking technology from Välinge, the Swedish pioneer of the concept of glue-less click flooring.

The 2G locking system by Välinge is one of the most used and appreciated systems in the world for floating installation of laminate, wood and resilient flooring. However, angling installation of the long side also has a lot of advantages for subfloors. By customizing and adjusting the profile, Välinge has now established the basis for a whole new patent family, thereby allowing the 2G locking technology to develop further

“It’s great to make everyday life easier for our customers, both from a cost- and installation perspective. It is important for us to be innovative and develop solutions which make the handing with our products easier and better for our end-users. Our expertise in raw material, combined with Välinge’s knowledge within locking technologies, made us come up with the best solution for click in loadbearing subflooring”, said Terje Sagbakken, the CEO of Forestia, when the agreement was announced.

Advanced packaging system

Today Forestia’s products are delivered to its customers in state-ofthe-art packaging thanks to a project undertaken two years ago with Goldpack, the Slovenian leader in advanced packaging solutions.

The two million Euros packaging system line is designed to pack the wooden panels onto pallets. The capacity of the line is extremely high and is one of the most developed packaging system lines in wood industry in Europe.

The system line is made up of multiple manipulators for packing and unpacking, foil packaging machines, robotic arms as well as stretch wrapping machines. Every single component of the line is connected to the transport systems of rollers, chains and tracks.

As a leading manufacturer in producing packaging systems for the wood industry worldwide, Goldpack can ensure that client support is constantly available and that its machines have the option of constant software upgrades as systems technology develops. n