What CMC Texpan does

CMC Texpan (legally Carpenterie Metalliche di Colzate S.r.l. con socio unico, also operating as Siempelkamp Sorting & Forming Solutions S.r.l.) is an Italian industrial manufacturer founded in April 1962 in Colzate near Bergamo, and since January 2013 a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany's Siempelkamp Group. The company engineers and builds front-end machinery and integrated systems for wood-based panel production lines — including particleboard (PB), medium-density fibreboard (MDF), and oriented strand board (OSB) — covering the upstream stages from raw material preparation and contaminant removal, through glue blending and resin dosing, to mat forming. Core product families include screening and cleaning equipment (oscillating screens, roller separators, gravimetric and densimetric separators, magnetic separators, dry chips cleaners, water baths), blending and dosing systems (glue kitchens with Coriolis mass flow meters, belt scales, RV high-speed and RL low-speed blenders with a patented magnetic coating), forming systems (forming stations and the EcoFormer SL wind-former), and the Sorter LYNX contaminant detection system using SWIR spectroscopy with optional X-ray accessories. The portfolio has supported 500+ installations and approximately 200 forming stations across more than 40 countries, including pioneering deliveries such as the world's first 6-head OSB forming station in 2003.

Revenue derives from three streams: hardware sales of individually engineered machines and systems, turnkey plant supply in conjunction with Siempelkamp Group covering the line from wood-yard to finished board packing, and aftermarket services (installation, commissioning, and lifecycle maintenance through the parent's global subsidiary network). Pricing is project-specific, quote-based, and not publicly disclosed. Sales operate on a direct enterprise field-sales model: both embedded within Siempelkamp's plant-engineering organization for combined turnkey bids and sold independently to external panel operators, supported by Siempelkamp subsidiary offices in China, India, Australia, Singapore, USA, Turkey, Brazil, Germany, Thailand, and Spain, plus independent agencies. Customer base spans global wood-based panel operators including Metro Ply Group (Thailand), OOO DOK Kalevala (Russia), Akij Group (Bangladesh), KronoStar Sharya, OAO Uvadrev, and OAO Ivatsevichdrev, with selective diversification into oil & gas bulk-material handling (Kazakhstan). Most recently, the company co-developed Prod-IQ · SmartPress with SMARTECH, an AI/ML-based software solution for autonomous optimization of pressing lines, awarded the Innovation Exhibit prize at WMF Shanghai 2025, signaling a strategic entry into software-defined production alongside its mechanical heritage.

Name

CMC Texpan

Legal name

Carpenterie Metalliche di Colzate S.r.l. con socio unico

Website

https://cmc-texpan.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1962

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CMC Texpan is an Italian manufacturer of front-end industrial machinery for wood-based panel production (particleboard, MDF, OSB). A wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany's Siempelkamp Group, it supplies individually engineered machines to panel producers worldwide through Siempelkamp's global subsidiary network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Cornate

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Industrial Machinery and Equipment Sales: Sale of specialized industrial machinery and systems for wood-based panel production plants, including individual machines (formers, blenders, separators, dosers) and complete integrated systems. Revenue is project-based and typically involves long sales cycles with enterprise customers. Machines are individually engineered to customer specifications.
2. Turnkey Plant Supply: Supply of complete turnkey plant systems in conjunction with Siempelkamp Group, covering the full production line from wood-yard to finished board packing. Integrates CMC Texpan's front-end equipment with Siempelkamp presses and other group components.
3. Aftermarket and Services: Technical support, installation, commissioning, and lifecycle maintenance services for supplied equipment. Global subsidiary and agency network provides localized service support.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CMC Texpan manufactures and supplies front-end industrial machinery and engineered systems for wood-based panel production plants (particleboard, MDF, and OSB). Its portfolio covers raw material preparation, contaminant removal (LYNX SWIR/X-ray systems), glue blending and dosing (glue kitchens with Coriolis mass flow metering, blenders), particle classification (roller, gravimetric, densimetric, magnetic separators, oscillating screens, dry chips cleaners), and mat forming (forming stations, EcoFormer SL wind formers). Each machine is individually engineered to customer plant specifications, and the company operates within the Siempelkamp Group's turnkey plant supply capability.

Product overview

CMC Texpan, operating as Siempelkamp Sorting & Forming Solutions S.r.l., provides a comprehensive portfolio of industrial machinery and systems for wood-based panel production (particleboard, MDF, OSB). The product range includes material preparation and cleaning equipment (oscillating screens, roller separators, gravimetric and densimetric separators, magnetic separators, dry chips cleaners, water baths), glue blending systems (glue kitchens, dosing bins, belt scales, high-speed RV and low-speed RL blenders), mat forming systems (forming stations, EcoFormer SL wind formers), and contamination detection/removal solutions (Sorter LYNX with SWIR/X-ray technology). The company also offers complete chips cleaning towers. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of German parent Siempelkamp Group, CMC Texpan supplies equipment to Siempelkamp and independently to wood panel producers worldwide, with over 60 years of experience and installations in over 40 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EcoFormer SL: Wind mat forming system for optimized separation of finer and coarser flakes in particleboard production, designed for energy efficiency.
• Lynx
• Sorter LYNX

Products and services

• Forming Station – FS Set of machines designed for mat forming in particleboard production. Creates well-balanced particle mats with correct area weight and layer structure for high-quality panels.
• EcoFormer SL Wind mat forming system that optimizes the separation of finer and coarser flakes by making the air flow inside the wind forming chamber more efficient, providing uniform surface layer formation in particleboard production with low energy consumption.
• Sorter LYNX Compact machine for detecting and removing contaminants from milled particle flows in wood-based panel production. Uses SWIR spectroscopy (an evolution of NIR) to remove plastics, foam, silicone, and polystyrene, and can be equipped with optional X-ray systems for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals and color detection accessories.
• Blenders (RV and RL types) Industrial blenders that apply and distribute adhesive onto wood particle surfaces for particleboard production. The RV high-speed blender provides higher mixing speed with smaller chambers; the RL low-speed blender is engineered to preserve particle geometry by reducing centrifugal force. Variants include RVE/RVI (high-speed for SL/CL flakes) and RLE/RLI (low-speed for SL/CL flakes).
• Glue Kitchen Storage and dosing system for the different components of the adhesive mixture, providing continuous and controlled glue preparation for wood panel production.
• Belt Scale – BN Equipment for continuous throughput measurement that measures the actual mass flow rate of particles fed to blenders, providing the reference signal for resin dosing control in wood panel production lines.
• Roller Separators High-performance roller separators for processing fresh and recycled wood, especially wet or semi-wet material, enhancing material selection in particleboard, MDF, and strand production lines.
• Gravimetric Separator – GS Machine that classifies particles according to weight, size, and thickness and removes pollutants from wood particle flows while preserving particle geometry.
• Densimetric Separator – DS Separator that combines vibration and blowing effects to effectively separate heavy contaminants from wood particles.
• Magnetic Separators Efficient magnetic separator solutions for removing metal contaminants from material flows with advanced magnetic systems, protecting downstream machinery and ensuring high-quality wood processing.
• Oscillating Screens Screening equipment suitable for wet and dry materials, particles, chips, and sawdust/shavings, providing precise classification of wood material into different size fractions.
• Dry Chips Cleaner – PC Machine for cleaning material flow by removing contaminants whose density is higher than wood, targeting contaminants from recycled wood in panel production lines.
• Water Bath – WB Machine suitable for further cleaning of rejected wood material from upstream machines and for recycling of materials in wood processing lines.
• Vibrating Feeder – VF Equipment designed to prepare material for the following separation stage in wood processing lines.
• Dosing Bins Machines designed and manufactured for wet and dry material handling in particleboard, MDF, and OSB plants, controlling particle flow to downstream equipment.
• Extractor Systems Extraction and handling systems that ensure regular material flow in production plants, enhancing efficiency and protecting downstream equipment.
• Chips Cleaning Tower Efficient, compact, and modular integrated solution for complete processing of recycled wood chips. Can be equipped with overbelt/drum magnets, roller separators, and LYNX SWIR spectroscopy system to remove metal, glass, paper, fibers, rubber, and plastics.
• Prod-IQ · SmartPress AI/ML-based software solution for autonomous production lines that integrates advanced analytics to optimize pressing lines in real time. Co-developed with SMARTECH (Tel Aviv) to enable fully autonomous production environments in wood-based panel manufacturing. Awarded Innovation Exhibit at WMF Shanghai 2025.
• 6-Head OSB Forming Station World's first 6-head OSB forming station, manufactured by CMC Texpan for industrial oriented strand board (OSB) production lines.

Quantifiable outcome

• Resin application precision achieved through Coriolis mass flow metering — calibration error of 2% in belt scale translates into 2% systematic error in resin application
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• SMARTECHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2025Siempelkamp partnered with SMARTECH (Tel Aviv) to co-develop and co-present the Prod-IQ · SmartPress AI/ML autonomous production solution. The solution integrates advanced analytics and machine learning to optimize pressing lines in real time, enabling fully autonomous production environments in wood-based panel manufacturing. The partnership combines SMARTECH's AI expertise with Siempelkamp's industrial engineering domain knowledge.
• Siempelkamp Group (Parent)flagshipOthersCMC Texpan is wholly owned by Siempelkamp Group (German parent company, Krefeld). Siempelkamp holds 70% majority stake since November 2009 and full ownership since January 2013. CMC Texpan operates as the Group's specialist for front-end equipment (sorting, cleaning, blending, forming) in the wood-based panel industry, serving both internal Siempelkamp turnkey plant projects and external customers independently.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Imal S.r.l. Italian manufacturer of equipment for the wood-based panel industry (glue preparation, dosing, forming). Closest direct peer to CMC Texpan: same geography, same end-customer base (PB/MDF/OSB producers), and overlapping product portfolio on glue kitchens and forming lines.
• Dieffenbacher GmbH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau: German supplier of complete wood-based panel production lines, including forming, pressing, and finishing. Competes head-to-head with the Siempelkamp/CMC Texpan stack in greenfield turnkey plant deals and offers overlapping front-end forming capability.

Broad incumbents

• Andritz AG: Austrian industrial group with a Panelboard division supplying equipment for wood-based panel production. Broader portfolio across pulp, paper, and metal forming, but directly comparable to CMC Texpan in panel forming and pressing technologies.
• Bühler Group: Swiss industrial group with a wood-based panel processing offering (forming, pressing, sorting) alongside its dominant grain processing business. Overlaps with CMC Texpan on the panel side while operating a much broader machinery portfolio globally.
• Homag Group: German leader in woodworking machinery (part of Dürr Group) supplying solid wood and panel processing equipment. Adjacent rather than directly overlapping — focused more on downstream processing, surface treatment, and furniture lines than on the front-end forming/cleaning niche.
• Biesse S.p.A. Italian-listed manufacturer of machinery for processing wood, glass, stone, plastic, and metal. Comparable on the woodworking/panel side as another Italian industrial machinery incumbent serving furniture and panel producers.
• SCM Group: Italian industrial group offering a wide range of woodworking machinery and panel processing equipment. Comparable to CMC Texpan as an Italian peer with deep roots in panel production equipment, though with a broader downstream focus.

Emerging players

• Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG: German specialist in size reduction and preparation technology for the wood products industry. Comparable upstream process-stage equipment (chipping, grinding, sifting) that often feeds into panel production lines where CMC Texpan equipment sits.
• Olbrich GmbH: German manufacturer of coating and forming systems for decorative surfaces, flooring, and panel products. Comparable technology overlap in the forming/coating stage of panel production, though focused on surface finishing rather than particleboard front-end.

Regional players

• Shanghai Wood-Based Panel Machinery Co., Ltd. (SWPM): Chinese state-owned manufacturer of complete wood-based panel production lines. Comparable offering across the panel-making process but primarily serves the China domestic market and emerging Asia — a regional competitor to CMC Texpan and Siempelkamp in Asia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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