Dieffenbacher has started up 11 continuous panel production and lamination plants over the past year.

The new panel production facilities built since June 2001 comprise an OSB plant for Agglo in Belgium; a particleboard plant for Willamette in the US; an MDF site for Homanit in the US; an MDF factory for Kunz in Germany; an OSB facility for Masisa in Brazil; a particleboard site for Ponderosa in Mexico; and an LVL plant for Nelson Pine in New Zealand.

Lamination plants were built for Isory in France, for EPI in France, Karelia in Russia, and Songjang in China.