Moelven valåsen wood ab

How We Work

We engage in constant and regular purchasing programs with our suppliers, to make sure that our wood offer is always available and vast.

On the other hand, our cuppliers, facing seasonal stock fluctuations but wishing for adaptable production plans, finds in Moelven Construction a partner that can guarantee order continuity and Stability that helps optimizing their production capacity.

Moreover, we encourage our supplier and often participate in investments with them to further improve and develop their transformation capacity in their factories in order to reduce the carbon footprint related to the transport of the products and to help further develop the local economy.

Commissioned in 2020, it was a first-of-its-kind plant in Norway.

We have an advantage in that we can benefit from the successful experiences of our first innovative pellet plant in Norway now that we are now going to take on a similar project in Sweden, Morten Kristiansen said.

Pellets for export

The new plant will have an initial annual production capacity of 80 000 tonnes but will be dimensioned for an annual capacity of up to 105 000 tonnes.

The investment will generate eight new jobs in Karlskoga, where Moelven already conducts operations through the sawmill Moelven Valåsen AB and its planing mill- and distribution center Moelven Valåsen Wood AB.

Moelven Pellets AB will produce white wood pellets of the highest quality class that will be distributed to the international market via vessels from Lake Vänern.

Moelven is well-positioned along the value chain.

In recent years, Norway-headed solid wood processing major Moelven Industrier has invested over SEK 900 million (≈ EUR 78.5 million) to modernize and increase the production capacity of its Moelven Edanesågen and Moelven Valåsen AB sawmills in Sweden.

For the latter sawmill, the Group’s largest production plant, the investments in Karlskoga include a new small-diametre sawlog line, a biomass heat plant, kiln-dryers, rebuild of the planer line, and an 80,000 tonnes per annum wood pellet plant – the second pellet plant for Moelven Pellets, a new subsidiary in the Group.

State-of-the-art small-diameter sawlog line

In May this year, the new small-diameter sawlog line – 80 mm to 280 mm in top diameter – saw its first day of work.

The new sawlog line means that it will be possible to increase sawn wood production at the plant while log-by-log measurement/sorting of small-diameter sawlogs is completely eliminated.

The new HewSaw R200 1.1 V4 line has a sawing capacity of up to 40 logs per minute at a top speed of 200 meters per minute, which equates to approximately 160 planks and boards per minute.

First pellets produced

In September 2024, the company began starting and commissioning the new pellet plant.

Built by Estonia’s Hekotek, which also built Moelven’s first pellet plant at its Soknabruket sawmill in Norway, the sawdust and planer shavings from the sawmill are dried using a Mühlböck belt dryer, and pressed in one of three CPM pellet presses.

We have test-run the plant, produced our first pellets for delivery, and tested that we are ready to take over the facility under our management, which feels great.

Our customers, conscientious about their stock rotation, can rely on us to provide promptly available stocks, ready to deliver, but still competitively priced. In addition, I have eight new employees and colleagues on site. Now I look forward to gradually ramping up production together with my new talented colleagues at Moelven Pellets, said Gunilla Pettersson, Site Manager at Moelven Pellets.

The investment is the result of the company’s previously announced sawmill capacity expansions in the region – Moelven Edanesågen AB and Moelven Valåsen AB.

Moelven takes responsibility for utilizing the entire natural resource when we use the forest.