Timber iQ August- September 2018 // Issue: 39 | Page 8

NEWS
Wood-Mizer brings
Swedish brand on-board
Sawmill industry veterans Wood-Mizer recently acquired the business
interests of Swedish woodworking machine manufacturer MOReTENs AB.
Wood-Mizer’s MOReTENs MP360 four-sided planer moulder.
T
he acquisition of MOReTENs places a full range of
four-sided moulders, planers, table saws, spindle
moulders, planer / thicknessers and computer
numerical control (CNC) routers into Wood-Mizer’s globally
available product range.
Wood-Mizer’s initial successes in thin kerf narrow
bandsaw portable sawmilling created the momentum that
resulted in new acquisitions, product innovations,
expanded ranges into new sectors and fast developing
global manufacturing footprint that now includes the US,
Europe and Sweden.
The addition of the MOReTENs product line-up now gives
Wood-Mizer the ability to offer a full range of equipment
that can seamlessly convert logs into dried lumber and
finally into finished wood products – all backed by
Wood-Mizer’s expertise and commitment to excellent
customer service.
MOReTENs’ product range is the result of solid
engineering with the company’s founder Bo Mårtensson
who started the company more than 30 years ago.
“Throughout our history, Wood-Mizer has been committed
to providing the best quality equipment to process logs
into finished wood products,” says Wood-Mizer president and
CEO Richard Vivers.
“The affordable and versatile moulder and planer
product lines from MOReTENs have been proven worldwide
for decades and are now backed by high-quality service and
support network customers expect from Wood-Mizer. To
add to the tradition of excellence and continuity in
expertise, Wood-Mizer has asked Bo Mårtensson to join us
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The inside of the MP360, heavily
engineered top and bottom and side
spindles for accurate and precise straight
planning and moulding in one pass.
as the general director of the MOReTENs factory in
Ostersund, Sweden,” adds Vivers.
“Many years ago, I was a young engineer with carpentry
experience when I started MOReTENs and began building
woodworking machinery. I’m proud to see my products in
workshops worldwide. Our incorporation into the wider
Wood-Mizer product family allows us to take our existing
products to a much bigger customer base and will also
accelerate our capability to introduce new products to meet
our customers’ needs,” says Mårtensson.
“We are confident that the MOReTENs moulder planer
combination represents a new chapter in affordable, high
quality, moulding and planing capacity,” highlights Gavin
Prowse, managing director of Wood-Mizer Africa.
“New and existing producers now have access to
technology that can plane and profile in one pass, which, to
date, fell well outside the budgets of most producers
preventing them from entering the market or improving
their production capacity and quality. The small footprint of
the unit makes it easy to slot into existing layouts and
inexpensive to link to support services like dust extraction.
A full range of planer and profiling knives that slot onto the
four individual spindles extend the flexibility that
manufacturers now have with the MOReTENs range,”
says Prowse.
Wood-Mizer started with the phased introduction of the
MOReTENs range into its global distribution network in
2018. Wood-Mizer Africa will introduce the MP260 and
MP360 four-sided moulders to South Africa first, with the
rest of the MOReTENs product family following later.