OREANDA-NEWS. December 05, 2014. Byko-Lat is going to build a 4th re-sawing and planning line at its factory in Valmiera in Latvia. The planning capacity will increase by about 30%.

 The new production line will be operational during the 3Q 2015, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

“The main reason for the new production line is to reduce delivery lead-times to our customers,” says Valts Kurpnieks, Managing Director of BykoLat.

“There have been some structural changes during the past years in the European timber reprocessing business and we see an opportunity in this sector,” says Sampsa Auvinen, CEO of Norvik Timber Industries.

Byko?Lat has at its Valmiera site a timber planning & further processing factory including impregnation, a window and door factory and a prefabricated house factory. Byko-Lat’s garden furniture production is located at the Cesis factory. The production is sold to more than 25 countries worldwide.

Byko Lat is part of Norvik Timber Industries.