IBV & Cie (Vielsalm)
OperatingIBV & Cie (Industrie du Bois Vielsalm)Wood & Energy Groupwood-energy.groupID 01510
IBV & Cie (Vielsalm) is an operating softwood sawmill in Vielsalm, Belgium, owned by Wood & Energy Group. With a capacity of 800 000 cubic metres of log intake per year it is the 1st largest of the 4 sawmills in Belgium with a recorded capacity.
Location and logistics
- Location
- Vielsalm, Prov. Luxembourg (BE), Belgium
- Site
- IBV & Cie Vielsalm (Wood & Energy)pellet plant · 450 000 t/y pellets
Shares the industrial site with the facilities listed. Each is its own record with its own capacity and status.- Nearest port
- Antwerpen · 150 kmStraight-line distance to the nearest major port. Method
- Rail siding
- No siding mapped
- Nearest railway
- 2.7 km
Map
Capacity and output
- Capacity
- 800 000 m3/y log intake
- Production
- Not reported
- Type
- Softwood
Raw material and products
History and sources
Timeline
- expansion2022A 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.Source ↗
- expansion2019In 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.Source ↗
- expansion2008In 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.Source ↗
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- founded1999Industrie du Bois Vielsalm was created in 1999 at Burtonville in Vielsalm by private investors together with the regional bodies SRIW and IDELUX.Source ↗
Sources
- otherchecked 2026-07-25timber.fordaq.com ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-27idelux.be ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-27europages.fr ↗
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- otherchecked 2026-07-27jostgroup.com ↗
- otherchecked 2026-07-30server.arcgisonline.com ↗
- company websitechecked 2026-10-04wood-energy.group ↗
Related facilities
Wood & Energy Group
How to cite
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