History

This year our department of recycling plants from SWEED will be our proud.  A worldwide hunger for all kinds of raw materials convinces our customers more and more of the fact that waste shouldn't just be thrown away and therefore they invest in equipment to shorten long scrap bandings .
With shortened metal & plastic bandings, this packaging waste can be reintroduced into the chain of recycling.  Healthy for environment and at the same time financially healthy for our customers.
We have received orders from ARCELOR MITTAL STEEL – LAURAMETAAL – CORUS STAALGROEP.  SWEED manufactured the small Bandit model CE300 for recycling smaller waste streams.

In the department sawmill plants we obtained an order for a saw doctoring room in KISANGANI for customer SODEFOR and a heavy board edger in NIOKI for customer SODEFOR. For SAFIR in ABIDJAN we will ship a levelling and tensioning bank – stellite tipper and flank grinder.
Several other plants will be delivered in different countries.  However,  it does seem to become harder and harder to obtain an order for a completely new sawmill.

OPTIMATIC – equipment will leave for RD CONGO and the Netherlands. (HUPKES HOUTHANDEL) .

We obtained the order of a new sawmill on the left bank of the Congo river at KISANGANI .
This mill will be installed at the heart of  AFRORMOSIA – region and is for the account of a Portuguese customer NORSUDTIMBER . Once again it is a complete project and this time in a region that was & still is civil war-stricken.

For SEYNA this new mill has a special emotional meaning, since it will be set up at only a few kilometres away from the place where SEYNA exported and set up its very first equipement.
KONGO will always have a special place in the heart of SEYNA .

Unfortunately, this is also the first year that SEYNA becomes aware of the crises within the sawmill sector.  We notice that our customers start having doubts and investments are being put off.  This down period forces us to limit our stock of second hand equipment.

Similar to the WIJMA order, we obtain the project of the customer HOLLAND WOODWORKS from SURINAM . This sawmill almost has the same impressive size and will  change the image of Surinam as exporter of logs and poles.  We have also supplied the new sawmill for Mr. MULENGA at Kinshasa + a saw doctoring room for the customer CONGOFUTUR in the same town.

A very special order is the one containing the saw doctoring room for the customer COMPAGNIE DES BOIS du GABBON at the port city of PORT GENTIL.
In the whole African continent, it is the very first saw doctoring room that is state of the art and fully automatic. It is set up in an air-conditioned room. This saw mill doubled output in using an OPTIMATIC type RSMO 980 for levelling and improved the quality of sawn wood by factor 4.

Our recycling department confirms some smaller orders.  One special project concerns delivery of several machines to a Belgian producer of steel tubes.

We have been selected as the supplier for the new mill project in the north of CAMEROUN (village NGUTI) that will be installed by the Dutch wood tycoon WIJMA.
This order has kept us busy for 6 months and the largeness of this order confirms that SEYNA is capable of handling the export of a fully equipped saw mill.

Our recycling equipment department succeeds in winning the UMICORE COPPER order to deliver equipment for conditioning 25,000 tons of red copper a year.
Meanwhile, OPTIMATIC built a new model (type RSMO 980), which is capable of tensioning, levelling and stretching. Though this equipment is rather expensive, we have received many orders and only within the BENELUX countries several tens of these machines have been installed.  Amongst our customers,  we may count following sawmills: 

• THYS HOUT (Kapellen)
• VAN MAELE (Nieuwpoort)
• HOFFMANN TRADE (Atzerath)
• PAULS TIMBER (St. Vith)
• DUSAUSSOIT (Etalle)
• DEMONTY (Sourbrodt)

• Export of turnkey projects to sawmills using second hand equipment.
• Import form Switzerland and after sales service of OPTIMATIC equipment for BENELUX countries + sale to all French speaking customers all over the world.
• Import from the United States and after sale service of SWEED equipment for linear scrap recycling.