OREANDA-NEWS. July 17, 2014. Hekotek AS has signed a contract for delivery of equipment for new sawmill complex to company Lesplitinvest, located in Priozersk (Leningrad region, Russia), as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

As also in several earlier projects Hekotek is fulfilling in this project obligations of the project general supplier. This project will be built in close cooperation with Finnish equipment suppliers – Veisto OY as producer of equipment for sawing line and Valon Kone, as producer of debarking machines.

Set of Hekotek equipment, manufactured for Lesplitinvest’s sawmill includes log sorting line, log infeeding equipment to sawing line, combined sawn timber sorting line for sorting wet and dry material and sawing residue handling conveyors.

Delivery of log sorting line is planned to the end of the year, delivery of sawmill equipment is starting in the beginning of year 2015. Both deliveries will be continued by installations and in the beginning of summer 2015 the new sawmill is to be launched. Designed capacity of the sawmill per year makes up as much as about 130,000 cubic metres of sawn timber.

AS Hekotek is a mechanical engineering company; its main operations include design and production of woodworking technologies and facilities.