Company news
From signing the contract for our facility to full pallets of rotary-cut birch veneer leaving the gate — the story of our mill, month by month.
Today we celebrate a small victory. The Latvian State Revenue Service has awarded us its highest company rating for our work in 2025.
We are very pleased with this recognition and look forward to continuing our work with the same care and diligence.
LatVeneer is celebrating its first Chinese New Year.
In keeping with tradition, we decorated the doors of our factory and warehouse with wishes for good luck and prosperity, keeping evil spirits at bay. Our chief mechanic wrote the wishes on the doors himself — by hand and from the heart.
We welcomed the New Year with a grand feast around the table. May the Year of the Horse bring bravery, speed and resilience to us all!
The snow has hardly graced us with its beauty this year. We hear it has been much the same for our customers — a winter without much white.
So we decided this year’s Christmas greeting should be a little more special.
We created a handmade design using the intaglio printing technique. To bring it to life with more colour — and a little more magic — we carved two printing plates and printed them one over the other, with great precision.
We hope it brings a little holiday cheer to a winter shaped by the effects of a changing climate.
Another day to celebrate — we have received our FSC® certificate.
At our facility, we operate both the FSC® Percentage and Transfer systems. Throughout production, we trace every product pallet individually, giving us the traceability needed to assign the appropriate FSC® claim to each order. At the same time, we are getting to grips with the EUDR requirements and the creation of due-diligence statements (DDS). We hope that, together, we can help ensure full traceability in the wood industry and prevent illegal practices that distort the market and undermine fair pricing.
Here’s to a prosperous future! 🍾
We are very happy to have reached the end of the first stage of our operations.
To mark the occasion, we invited all our employees and the people who supported us along the way — without whom we could not have achieved what we have — to share a festive meal.
Today, we celebrate and feel grateful for what we have accomplished, while gathering strength for the work ahead.
Big events inevitably bring some stress. But we had confidence in the measures we had put in place, and we passed the certification audit successfully.
We are very pleased with the work we have done and grateful for the support of our certification body. Now all that remains is to wait for the certificate itself.
The final stage of assembly is complete, and today we are starting up our dryer.
There is still some fine-tuning ahead before we can fully configure the equipment and be confident that we have precise control over moisture levels. In our experience, different final-product manufacturers have different requirements when it comes to moisture content.
This is another important step towards reaching normal production volumes and lead times. We hope to be running full shifts by the end of the month.
Today we start testing the peeling lines.
We have two production lines in total — 1300 mm and 1600 mm. Assembly is complete, and now it is time to test and fine-tune the equipment to achieve the best possible quality. In particular, we have set our sights on reducing the thickness tolerance to 0.02 mm. Let’s see if we can achieve our goal! In the meantime, we’ll enjoy one of the most satisfying moments — the smell of the first freshly peeled veneer sheets.
Slowly but surely, our equipment is filling the space.
Today, the heaviest piece of all arrived — the furnace for the dryer. It took some serious skill from the truck crane operator to get it into place. Luckily, Jēkabpils has some of the best professionals around, and they handled it with ease.
Meanwhile, we’re also renovating our office and already discussing the best spot for the coffee machine.
The to-do list never seems to end, but the factory is slowly taking shape.
All our production equipment is shipped by sea in sixteen 40-foot containers. Today, the first one has arrived, and the others will follow soon.
We are ready to get to work and install the equipment before the new production season. Yesterday, we cleaned the facility and prepared it for the arrival of the equipment.
There is a lot of work ahead, but we are ready for it. We will get it done!
Today, we approved the final version of our logo, and we’re excited to share it with you.
If you look closely, you can see what inspired it: our main production process — a blade peels the log, and a sheet of veneer comes off.
At a time when AI and “Scandinavian minimalism” are everywhere, we wanted something different. We chose a more traditional approach — an illustration rather than a simple symbol.
We had been looking at another facility in Jēkabpils for some time. Then, quite unexpectedly, an old work connection and close friendship opened up a new option in the same city — and one that suited our needs even better.
Today, we are happy to say that we have officially signed the contract and can now call Jēkabpils the home of our future mill. Once again, it shows that good relationships are one of the most important things in business.
Now we can get to work — plan the layout, order the equipment, and prepare everything for the move.
Wish us luck!
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