HOB 10.2024

Mak­ing sophis­ti­cat­ed con­crete form­work from wood is often an art. What was once con­sid­ered impos­si­ble or dif­fi­cult, such as cre­at­ing futur­is­tic curves on large bal­conies, has become rou­tine for experts thanks to mod­ern CNC tech­nol­o­gy. Some­times it only takes a few days from con­cept to real­i­sa­tion, and a cus­tomised con­crete stair­case, for exam­ple, is ready for delivery.

BSP Spe­cial 2024

In the idyl­lic Swedish coun­try­side, Setra has estab­lished itself as one of the country’s largest tim­ber indus­try com­pa­nies. With a clear focus on sus­tain­abil­i­ty, only wood from respon­si­bly man­aged forests in Swe­den, some of the best soft­wood areas in the world, is used. Sev­en sawmills and a mod­ern pro­cess­ing unit trans­form these raw mate­ri­als into cli­­mate-friend­­ly prod­ucts such as glu­lam, planed tim­ber and cross lam­i­nat­ed timber.

HOB 5+6.2024

The 5‑axis VISION-III-TT machin­ing cen­tre from Ger­man spe­cial machine man­u­fac­tur­er Reichen­bach­er has been in oper­a­tion at the Setra Group’s wood indus­try cen­tre in Lång­shyt­ta in cen­tral Swe­den since the end of last year, and this series des­ig­na­tion promis­es some­thing extra­or­di­nary. Equipped with a steel gird­er table with tim­ber sup­ports and con­vey­or sys­tem, the 20,000 mm x 3,100 mm work­ing area of the sys­tem alone is excep­tion­al and ide­al­ly suit­ed to the pro­cess­ing and pre­fab­ri­ca­tion of large CLT pan­els for house walls, ceil­ing and roof elements.