The Kronospan Research and Development Center is open now
Thanks to the research carried out in the center's laboratories, the Kronospan offer will be extended with additional, innovative products. There are some works carried out on the production and improving of wood-based panels with exceptional surface quality and hygiene, environmentally friendly paints and varnishes, wood-based panels with even better strength parameters, as well as ecological resins with unprecedented physic mechanical properties. The Kronospan Research and Development Center is an innovative place, where theory and practice meets, science with industry as well, where scientific theories are consulted with practitioners with extensive experience in the production of wood-based panels. The best theories will be implemented. - says Dr Izabela Siebielska who is managing the Center.
The developed technological solutions are made in order to strength the position of Kronospan as a leader on the market of wood-based panel manufacturers. It is also important to introduce ecological solutions into the production process. The development of technology for implementing environmentally friendly and paint users will have a real impact on the reduction of emissions from production. Thanks to the development of new technologies, wood-based panels with the same emission as natural wood will be obtained.
Research units and research organizations already cooperate with the Research and Development Center. As part of the project realization, Kronospan will develop cooperation with, among others: Koszalin University of Technology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Military University of Technology, Wood Technology Institute, Green Angel Institute, West Pomeranian Chemical Compound Green Chemistry Association or Szczecinek Furniture Cluster. Students from the Faculty of Wood Industry at the Koszalin University of Technology in Szczecinek will also use the laboratories of the center. Doctor Siebielska adds: - Our laboratories are equipped with the most modern equipment that will be used by WPD students in next years. This will give them the opportunity to learn about the latest technologies in the wood industry. Once again, thanks to Kronospan, new jobs were created in Szczecinek. An additional value associated with the launching of the center is that the introduction of innovative technologies and production solutions will positively affect the state of the environment and improve the functioning of the company.
The project has received EU co-financing from the Intelligent Development Operational Program.
Facts about the Research and Development Center
Area bought from the Polish State Railways: 1 ha
Building area: 2000 m2, on two floors
Construction time: 10 months
Opening: June 7, 2018.
Heating: ecological (pump, drawing heat from inside the Earth). Air-conditioned, energy-saving building with heat recovery.
Most companies from Szczecinek participated in the construction of the center. About 100 people worked on the construction site every day. Next to CBR, Kronospan has also renovated the old PKP office building, where there will be hotel for the company's employees.
There are 28 comfortable flats with kitchen and bathroom.
