SEYNA grows and blooms, corona or not.

Indeed, it has now been more than a year since everything in the world revolves around that pandemic. That makes investing in large projects not easy, and yet we have not stood still for a minute, well on the contrary.

Fortunately, our team was spared from that little virus, nobody was seriously ill, neither  in the families.

What has changed?

1. We said goodbye to supplier WRAVOR. Respect for agreements is the beginning of everything.

2. Many containers with machines went to Africa and South America.

3. We converted the entire CARLSBOURG sawmill.

The sawing machines were still at ground level as in grandfather's time, but now they are at level 1.5 meters  with a beautiful PRIMULTINI carriage, brand new.

4. There is a lot of movement especially in the strap shredder sector. Our sales figures are now 4 times higher than just before the pandemic. This is certainly because the world is open to the reuse of PET strapping.

What will the future bring?

Nobody knows for sure, but we don't have to worry about that for the first 6 months. The order book is still full enough.

Happy New Year to you all,

The economic storm has not stopped yet to rage over the world.

Oil-$ have no more value. Sawmills are suffering hard times because ecological motivations, based on 1/2 the truth, make customers walk away from wood or the cost for wood is too high .

Still, sawmillers are people as strong as a tree and live goes on. Even more, the sawmillers don't give up and continu investments. SEYNA is proud to be able to help them.

We build the new sawmill for customer THYS(PRIMULTINI 1600 with mechanisation and automation). 

In Willerzie we build the only sawmill in Benelux to have automated log positioning and volumetric calculation with a speed faster than the human eye can be. It included also a slabber,+ horizontal & vertical pre-cutting.

Africa remains our main market where we  send upgrade machinery to many customers in many countries. In Gabon we are proud to be the only European supplier of machines in a huge investment program for sawmill and veneer production.  We supply the sawdoctoring and various smaller machines + 2 complete sawmill lines WRAVOR to cut the logs too big for the other machines.

In PERU, we loose a close friend to an inserious desease. But, also in peru there are people as strong as a tree.

In our range of SWEED choppers, 1 very big machine goes to chop high voltage electric cables in Chech republic + a whole lot of machines to various customers in all kinds off industries .

SWEED has continuously renewed its range of machines and have paid a lot off attention to new design .

Nice working with sweed to help our customers grow to a cleaner world  (especially with regards to PET recycling).

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)

Since we moved the company end of 2001, litle time was spent on keeping the SEYNA website updated about our evolutions. .

In this period of time, Europe came across some pretty heavy economic storms .

Bigger vessels had hard times, small boats like ours have found a safe harbour for shelter.

 Exports to africa have brought us the biggest orders in our 25 years of history.  

1)    For the SBL sawmill in Lastourville, we have embarked 3 containeurs containing 2 complete cutting lines WRAVOR all new and made to size to cut the bigger African logs.  To make sure we had the blades in good condition, a complete sawdoctoring room was loaded as well Complete with automated bench OPTIMATIC, SHARK full flood grinder and VANINETTI satellite tipper .  

2)    In September 2012, ou customer FOREEX in Libreville could confirm payment of the whole new sawmill which has been studied for 4 years. The mill was designed for cutting the hardest and the biggest African logs up to 10 meters of length.         

We have supplied :

- 2 x prefab building off which 1 was equipped with an overhead crane carrying 10 tons on a span of 22 meters.  

- 3 x MANITOU forklift and reach truck

- Complete sawdoctoring room, all equipment for bundling and conservation of sawn woods , etcetera.

- The cutting line PRIMULTINI 1600 SIF/CIB complete with log handling and board conveyors  PRIBO,

The carriage has an horizontal opening of 1,8 meters and weighs 24 tons when fully assembled.   

We ended up with 6 containers containing the buildings + 3 x RO RO freight for the forklifts. Another #7 OPEN TOP containers + 1 flat rack have left from Italie directly to LIBREVILLE containing the PRIMULTINI – PRIBO equipment.

Our division SWEED CHOPPERS could sell into Europe some important orders.  For Spain we delivered equipment  to chop very big high tension electric cables + sorting aluminium from steel core.

In France we sold many choppers to fit the line that will clean up the underwater communication cables . these cables are quit difficult to recycle because they are made of # 04 different layers of different material . SWEED machines have made it possible.

The line should recycle some 120.000 km (and this is no typing error) in the next 5 years.

SEYNA has its eyes open for the challenges the new year will bring and we hope our customers can enjoy same positive vibes in 2014 all in good health.

THE BIG MOVE. Après avoir loué notre bâtiment industriel pendant 10 ans, le moment est venu auquel SEYNA a pu acheter un bâtiment de même apparance. Au mois de Novembre prochain, on va se déplacer de 4 km pour rester dans la même région, tout en gradant nos mêmes coordonées de communication . A l'intérieur du bâtiment, nous allons créer des locaux adiminstratif et sociaux, tout en utilsant des matériaux écologiques. Le bois sera omniprésent .

For any of us who is not to proud to denie it, 2009 was a year where decisions had to be taken. Also for us, that year was different. Our major stock laid a pressure on our financial capacities, today we are proud to say that this problem is over . within the period of crisis, we sold quit a lot of brandnew resaws made by FULLPOWER model FTF - 900 and today there is in every Flemish provincy at least 1 machine operating with wood - retail shops. Our participation to the PROWOOD-show in Gent was a gigantic succes . We have sold a lot of small model choppers (CE 300) from SWEED and the list of references became longer . Departement sawmill machines shipped out an important order machines and parts for PRIMULTINI towards KINSHASA and a couple of smaller orders were shipped to other African countries. South America received a bunch of used machines but also a brand new horizontal logmill made by WRAVOR. Our departement SWEED - choppers saw that early 2010 those long promised orders from the bigger steel companies were consolidated. All this comforts us for the future and we have regained our confidence.

Year 2008 is great year. We nearly doubled out turnover. We have found new supplier of great machines to complete the offer to European wood - shops and industrial planer mills.  These machines have moderate prices for a great quality level.  They will meet the needs of small & medium sized companies 

We deliver a sawmill to TANZANIA & to another customer in Gabon. 

The last months of 2008 have brought the financial crisis over the world and also with SEYNA. The multiplcation of our last years turnover was not achieved but we did not stop buying good quality machines. We have bought the full inventory of sawmills COLLARD in French speaking part of Belgium + the total of machines in KERKHOF sawmill in Holland.

We feel confident that with few overhead costs + flemisch courage we will come by through this difficult times and we wish everybody best of courage to come by through these uncertain times.

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) .

In the deepest parts of Belgium (municipality ETALLE) we set up a fully new sawmill – equipment for customer LIMHOUT – mr. Johan DANIELS.http://www.limhout.be
We deliver a PRIBO mechanisation (http://www.pribo.it) together with a PRIMULTINI headrig and carriage http://www.pribo.it.
The whole mill is set up onto a steal frame made by SEYNA, firstly we will dismantle the old plant that will be transported to France (scierie DUFFARD à BRIENAN /ARMANCHON). The new plant will be installed at +/- the same place as the previous plant and we estimate that the whole job will be finished in about 3 weeks.

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.

As of 01.01.2001 SEYNA's department of band saws will be left to the sole care of our former foreman.  BSS will start following its own course. SEYNA is now ready to concentrate FULL TIME on its 3 key activities :

• 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.

  Our Jubilee is celebrated:  our company exists for 10 years now.  This jubilee confirms that despite all the setbacks due to the may legal proceedings during our start-up period,  this young company managed to survive.
The jubilee was accompanied by an open house day, exhibiting operating machines,  which was very much appreciated by our customers.
Scoop in Belgium:  the range of choppers for linear scrap from the company SWEED is introduced in Belgium. (www.sweed.com)

Plans are made for a further separation of the activities of our company.  A new 1,600 m² hall is built in view of housing our department for export of machines.  Moving our stock in machinery will eventually last 3 months.

Activities are split up and a new 800 m² hall is used for storing and reconditioning equipment and products for export.  This new hall is situated at 3 km from the original plant.

We accept brand representation of OPTIMATIC machines, a company that has just developed a machine type SMO for automatic tensioning and straightening band saws. A revolutionary machine in the world of saw mills, which resulted into many a sale to saw mills that had a lot of problems in this field with their band saws. (www.optimatic.ch)

A first OPTIMATIC automatic leveller for levelling band saws is bought. Unique in Belgium. Huge investments were made for enlarging our work place and purchasing an automatic stellite tipper and a full flood side dresser with borazon,...

Foundation of SEYNAEVE BANDSAWS nv after a difficult period, during which Krist's father lost complete interest in and abandoned the company, not showing up for months on end. Krist SEYNAEVE becomes the managing director. Only 2 activities will remain:

• Manufacturing and repairing band saws
• Export to Africa and further of machines for sawmills.

This year is also characterized by the legal problems with the former exploiter and by our search for a proper place on the market for our new company. We are encouraged to go on with our young company thanks to the confirmation of our customers.

Spurred on by Krist SEYNAEVE, a first second-hand machine is exported to Africa, to the former ZAIRE, namely in KISANGANI. Krist SEYNAEVE travels for the first time to ZAIRE and his interest for export is growing.  Soon, CAMEROON will follow.

First investments in the field of stellite tipping of band saws. More people, who will only work on band saws, are engaged. Our first van is bought for regular visits to sawmills.  Brand representation for PRIMULTINI from Italy is  accepted, especially for the sale of their machines destined for grinding rooms.

A first investment in machines designed for working with band saws. A machine for joining of wide saw blades (width of up to 310 mm) is built and investment in a levelling-tensioning bench is made. We buy a press for punching out teeth in band saws and we start to build up a stock of band saw steel. Our company moves to Astenstraat at Heestert.

The first band saws wider than 80 mm were being repaired at our company. Development of interest in this market segment, which was being abandoned by the people who used to supply saw blades for sawmills back then.

At Izegem, a village in West-Vlaanderen (Belgium), a company active in the business of manufacturing special tools (drills, moulders, spindles) for secondary woodworking, is for sale. This company is named PORTEMAN and initially activities are started under the name of NIEUW HUIS PORTEMAN (new house PORTEMAN) but later on it gradually changed into SEYNAEVE & SON and finally we are doing business under the name of SEYNA