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IBV & Cie (Vielsalm)

IBV & Cie (Vielsalm) is an operating softwood sawmill in Vielsalm, Belgium, with a capacity of 800 000 cubic metres of log intake per year.

Company
IBV & Cie (Industrie du Bois Vielsalm)
Group
Wood & Energy
WoodComp ID
01510 (how IDs work)
Country
Belgium
City
Vielsalm
Status
Operating
Capacity
800 000 m3/y log intake
verified 2026-09-08
Type
Softwood
Region
Prov. Luxembourg (BE)
Website
wood-energy.group

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Raw material

Douglas FirSpruce

Products

Sawn timber
Sawn timber
Byproducts
PelletsSawdustSawmill chips

Related facilities

IBV & Cie (Vielsalm) is the 1st largest sawmill in Belgium of the 3 with a log intake capacity figure in WoodComp's register.

Largest sawmills in Belgium
Fruytier Group - site Marloie ·Barthel Pauls Söhne AG (Büllingen)
Nearest facilities
Bois Brever (Huldange) (14 km) ·HILO Holzindustrie Losheim (32 km) ·I.B.H. Sägewerk Harperscheid (42 km) ·Hermes Holz Stadtkyll (43 km) ·Pauls Holz Zingsheim (55 km)

Timeline

  1. 2022expansion

    A further pellet plant expansion at Vielsalm adding 70,000 tonnes per year of capacity was due to start operating at the end of 2022, fed by the group's own sawmill by-products and dried with heat from the biomass cogeneration plant.

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  2. 2019expansion

    In March 2019 IBV presented a 60 million euro expansion covering a new wood fired cogeneration unit, an additional pellet line, 14 timber drying kilns, a debarking and stacking line and two storage halls, expected to create about 50 jobs.

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  3. 2008expansion

    In the year before March 2009 the company added three new units at a cost of 90 million euro, including a pellet plant of 150,000 tonnes per year, a planing and drying line and a biomass cogeneration plant of about 17 megawatts.

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  1. 1999founded

    Industrie du Bois Vielsalm was created in 1999 at Burtonville in Vielsalm by private investors together with the regional bodies SRIW and IDELUX.

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Sources

Data confidence: High (100 of 100) how this is computed

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WoodComp (). IBV & Cie (Vielsalm) (WoodComp ID 01510). WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/id/1510

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