IKEA opens its biggest sawmill in Poland

Furniture giant is opening a new sawmill in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland. The facility will be the biggest in the country and the biggest in the IKEA Industry segment globally, Puls Biznesu reports. The sawmill will initially employ only 43 people, but it will expand employment as it prepares to reach full production capacity, 400,000 cubic meters of wood, over the next two years. “We will now concentrate on expanding production in the new sawmill,” Henrik Andersson, head of the solid wood division at Ikea Industry, told the daily. “The Stalowa Wola region allows for stable pinewood supply.” The facility is also located close to IKEA’s furniture factories in Poland and Slovakia.