Austria’s Kronospan is aiming to invest some €120m in building a new MDF production facility in Zvolen, in central Slovakia, with plans to supply the factory’s increased output to the construction and furniture industries. The latest initiative marks another project to ramp up the Slovak factory’s manufacturing capacities since the group acquired it in 2003.   According to the Slovak Ministry of the Environment in an official document released last June, the new plant is expected to produce about 450,000m3 of MDF per year, manufacturing widths of between 6mm and 38mm. The ...