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EDITORIAL FOCUSTowards a Two-Tier Business Platform 7
BUSINESSBusiness Sustainability in a Diverging World 8
Company Mergers & Acquisitions 10
Fibreboard Producer Company Business Comparisons 12
Industry Data Viewed in a Different Way 15
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Towards a Two-Tier Business PlatformBY LYNDA TARLING, MANAGING EDITOR
E D I T O R I A L F O C U S
Four main factors are identified as being largely
responsible for shifts in business competitiveness
in the industry and while these same factors
have always been present to a greater or a lesser
extent, they have combined to blur the former
boundaries between low-cost and high-cost
production regions.
The situation as observed, is largely a direct
result of reduced consumer spending and
increased competition (price discounted) from
lower-cost production sources and/or from
production inflexibility. When both situations
coincide, then company bankruptcy and a need
for restructuring become forceful threats, as has
become evident in recent years.
In the past three years (the interim recession
recovery stage) some producer companies in
the wood-based panels, furniture and interior
infrastructure and construction sectors became
insolvent. The earlier common practice adopted
by larger companies, of simply hiring people
and outgrowing their cost issues has effectively
disappeared, especially in China. It is very clear
that yesterday’s business interpretation of
‘Global’ is already changing. In the past, ‘Global’
has typically been used to include multinational
trading companies, supported by a string of
sales offices and multiple manufacturing sites,
linked to technologies and products aimed at
the established consumer markets of the USA,
Europe, and Japan.
The negative effects of the economic
downturn in the mature market-economy
regions impacted the ‘Gateway to Profitability’
across the ‘wood-based panel products’ industry’
as consumers reduced their spending on all but
essential items. Even in the expanding consumer
growth market regions, company profitability was
hard hit, because of an emerging large global
capacity-excess, especially in fibreboard product
arena. Since much of the global production
of MDF/PB panels represents high-volume
throughput of standard-grade materials, the
weakening demand scenario created a double
impact on overall panel exports from lower-cost
producer regions.
Interestingly, the current stage of
development in the product life-cycle demand
curve in the FB sector, has seemingly reached
a point of sufficient interest to attract private
equity and future’s investors. Such firms
have been waiting in the financial side lines
and recently have begun to acquire equity
holdings in some of the sounder status panel
producer companies.
Company managers have long recognised
the need, not only to rethink, but to revise
and replan their business models in order to
respond to a changing environment that
reflects the day-to-day needs of an ever
demanding commercial and macroeconomic
global trading infrastructure; its structural
segments; market forces, customer base;
financial aspects; product trends; and above
all, to create flexible business plans. Remember
that ‘Business Flexibility’ is the advised goal of
modern management.
In this edition of the MDF YEARBOOK we examine the fibreboard and particleboard product sectors as they emerge from the recessionary effects of the past seven years. We look at where the ‘industry’ sits today and how it may evolve up to 2020 in terms of the future drivers to business sustainability. The relative financial weakness of some of the larger panel companies in recent years has lowered the performance of the peer set as a whole. While some companies were better positioned to face the biggest challenges to sustainable business success during market volatility, others have been exposed to rising indebtedness and restructuring.
The negative effects of the economic downturn in the mature market-economy regions impacted the ‘Gateway to Profitability’ across the ‘wood-based panel products’ industry’ as consumers reduced their spending on all but essential items.
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Too high a level of engineered production capacity exists across too wide a global arena to ensure long-term commercial sustainability among the large number of companies operating within the global fibreboard and particleboard manufacturing industry.
Business Sustainability in a Diverging World
Managers in high-volume manufacturing industry, such as generic fibre-
based panels, are often several stages removed from their final customer
base. Even in domestic markets, it is hard for businesses to achieve ongoing
sustainable profitability in today’s 24/7 consumer-oriented trading world. A
need for creativity and down-stream communication to combat competition
is hard to achieve for companies that are strongly reliant on exports to
overseas markets, in which business changes, consumer preferences and
life-styles shape the market place. Thus, remote management has no control,
little influence and often only a marginal awareness of sub-regional changes.
Overall shifts in supply-chain business arrangements are more demanding
of managements’ attention by way of business ethics and strategy. Today’s
younger generation of emerging business managers in the corporate or
private sector, are destined to view tomorrow’s business strategy in a more
flexible, less constrained and more customer focused manner.
This is not a new situation and a few years ago, senior management in
some of the world’s largest high-profile firms, like: Marks & Spencer, Tesco,
Wall Mart, Nestle, Sainsbury’s, IKEA and others admitted their concerns
over how to effectively captivate business strategy development and its
implementation. The level of ‘customer-focused achievement’ by these
same companies, who in theory are closest to their customer base within the
supply-chain, arguably still leaves questions unanswered.
Question? If management in many iconic companies in the Footsie
100 have been less than fully prepared to accommodate change, or
have been ill-positioned to effect fast response within their corporate
structure, then what happens to companies in those industries who
are positioned at ‘arms-length’ from their final customer base? The
recession has certainly concentrated managements’ attention on
company strategies, in every product market sector that directly focuses
on consumer needs, preferences and variable disposable income.
The generic wood-based panels industry is certainly a good example of a
customer-remote sector, in which management strategy is exposed to the
knock-on effect of consumer life-style changes. China is a prime example of
such exposure, largely because of the expanding size of its rising disposable
income consumer base. China however is not alone in this respect.
Management expertise is often constrained by lack of wider experience
in being able to recognise change before it happens. There are always some
firms who are ahead in the business game, depending on their product base,
market position, management perspective, objectivity, financial strength, etc.
Conversely, many businesses struggle to maintain solvency.
If one thing above all else has been proven over recent years, it is that
assessing sustainability is critical. As UBS Bank recently observed “ The
developed world debt bubble was not sustainable, and it is slowly and
painfully correcting. China’s investment-driven growth was not sustainable,
and it too is slowly and painfully correcting. In the diverging world, investors
will need to begin considering sustainability in all aspects of their portfolios.”
Easy to say, not so easy to accomplish.
IKEA is a prime example in this regard in which management decided
to enter downstream into the manufacture of fibreboard, as an alternative
to the need to rely on the down-stream provision of materials from third-
party suppliers. It was not by chance that IKEA management’s decision to
engage in the production of basic materials caused it to choose advanced
and flexible matt formation and control equipment to provide it with exactly
the type of furniture-quality material it required. Not only this, but IKEA having
acquired Pfleiderer Grajewo, Poland, chose to operate from two primary
manufacturing sites.
Accordingly IKEA Group increased its net profit by 3.1% to 3.302bn for
the financial year ending 31st August 2013 (3.3bn ye 2014) with sales of
28.7bn. Operating profit increased by 15.2% to 4.0bn. Interesting in context
is that IKEA in many ways was fortunate enough to be able to acquire the
Pfleiderer company’s named operations.
There are always exceptions to the ‘general rule’ in business. Sustainability
linked to corporate profit and loss, while they are aspects common to every
business in every industry, do not always reflect, appropriate or diligent
management. For example there have been too many cases of business
failures in the FB industry in the past three years.
The aggregated effects of the drivers to change can be very harsh. The
large number of companies that operate in the panels sector have certainly
been exposed to a growing, competitive and ‘sensitive’ market place. This
has been driven by everything from a shortage of people skills, market
remoteness and a number of business factors influenced by the digital
revolution, which imposes a so-called ‘flat’ trading world, in which there are
very few constraints to business entry.
A few financially challenged panel producing companies managed to
escape financial collapse, by consolidating their operations and by assets
disposal, but some companies did not manage to emerge from bankruptcy.
Pfleiderer AG, as one of the dominant panel producer companies of its day,
largely as a result of M&A activity and its timing, entered into bankruptcy. This
removed it from its prime market status position, forced the sale of various
production sites and ended up with a downgrade in its legal trade status from
an AG to a GmbH.
The FB market place, or more definitively expressed ‘ultimate
consumer demand’ as catered to by IKEA for example, is in a state of flux as is
commonly associated with the current position that FB holds on the Product
Life-Cycle Curve.
The current situation is confirmed by the earlier decision of the Binderholz
Group to cease operations at its MDF Hallein plant in Austria at the end of
March, 2014. The plant was built in 1999 but rising prices in industrial wood
Success in business, will be reliant on management’s wider perception and interpretation of the ‘what? and how?’ aspects imposed by a diverging global ‘customer focused’ business environment.
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and a ‘migration’ in the manufacture of furniture and flooring from Western
Europe to Eastern Europe and the Far East had persuaded major customers to
move their business away. The company ruled out a possibility of increasing
prices for its panels “because of a massive overcapacity.” Hans Binder, owner
and managing director of the Group noted: “In recent years, the Binderholz
Group. has done everything in their power to prevent factory closure. “In the
end, however, the financial pressure in the timber materials industry was far
too great and the competition from low-cost manufacturers was too strong.
“Most importantly, however, there is currently no sign of any future change in
the highly tense market situation regarding MDF boards.”
Accordingly, managers’ and business owners’ former objective as
dedicated to achieving and maintaining a ‘sustainable competitive advantage’
has effectively become compromised. The present route to achieving
competitive advantage may not be perceived as an absolute goal, but rather
as a means to oversee change and flexibility. In a similar way, today’s emerging
managers are destined to view business strategy values in a less confined,
more flexible and more ‘customer oriented’ manner.
Powerful senior executives seldom wish to hear or take heed of
knowledge among workers that a competitive advantage is fading away.
Eventually it is too late to respond. That is what happened at IBM, Sony,
Nokia, Kodak, and many other firms that found themselves in terrible trouble,
despite ample early warning signs from those working with customers.
The new approach involves a move away from former ‘product-
dedicated’ business strategies. At one time everything focused directly on
the product. The Ford model T car is one of the earliest high-profile, product-
dedicated examples, of which Ford sold well over one million cars. Eastman
Kodak, which placed the first simple camera into the hands of a world of
consumers and created the the Hollywood movies and home videos, also
ignored the emergence of the digital world and was forced into bankruptcy
in Jan 2012 after 130 years of trading. Kodak’s demise is considered to be
the classic example of a blinkered management attitude plus a zero response
to change that was created by a combination of technology advancement,
faster communications and changing consumer life-style patterns. Enough
said? Perhaps not!
If Kodak management had acknowledged that the implied route
to business success hinged on the avoidance of approaching product
obsolescence, it would probably still be in business. Today however, it is
no longer simply about obsolescence. The concept of product obsolescence
in today’s increasingly competitive trading arena appears much sooner on
the conventional product life-cycle curve, than it did in the past. Today’s
products and materials increasingly embody and reflect transient competitive
advantages. The status-quo is being engineered by the manner in which the
digital age is manipulating the creation and development of new products,
materials and applications, at the same time that it is cultivating wider
consumer awareness.
Management as a consequence will need to carefully review and to
appraise the merits and demerits involved in following a traditional, single-
focused, long-term business strategy, based solely on the manufacture and
supply of commercial industry and consumer market products. The basic
concept of a modern revised ‘business strategy’ in today’s fast moving
commercial world, needs to embrace a face-to-face flexibility that can exist
today and in theory be gone tomorrow. American companies took a lead on
this concept and moved into and out-of a product or business, based very
much on generated cash-flow and perceived ‘value’; sometimes moving back
into the same business that was exited on an earlier occasion.
Such an approach relies on a management strategy that is a big shift
away from former business strategies, because it presides over companies’
needs to constantly start new strategic initiatives that are linked to reviewing,
creating and exploiting many competitive merits and demerits. Management
in only a few firms has yet been seen to abandon the now considered to
be invalid assumption, that the achievement of long-term business stability
has to be the absolute ‘given’ objective and hence it is the implied route to
financial success.
This is not to suggest, that the ultimate basic business objective is
anything other than to ensure strong business continuity. This of course is
taken for granted. But the driver to tomorrow’s success in business, will be
reliant on management’s wider perception and interpretation of the ‘what?
when? how?’ aspects imposed by a different global business environment,
largely determined by a trading world that is not ‘global’ anymore!.
Within the global wood based panels industry, only a few firms are
currently recognised to fit this scenario. Thus, current business strategy
favours investigative analysis, which itself involves a broader understanding
and appreciation of so-called competitive arenas.
Thus the realm of changing business concepts, still involves industry-
level investigative market data, exploratory analysis, conventional product
evaluation and sales and supply aspects. But it also embraces a transient
competitive business advantage, which is less about generating a higher
profitability compared with close competitive rivals and more about
recognising, interpreting and responding to customers’ objectives .
A good example of this is the world’s first wooden super car
made from a combination of maple, ply and MDF. Interestingly, the earliest
cars were made of wood and over 100 years later, the search for light-
weight (almost disposable) car body ‘furniture’ is seemingly making a
return journey.
Currently there are no signs of any future changes in the highly tense market situation involving MDF.
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Unilin Group, part of Mohawk Industries, acquired a majority of shares held by private equity company Ackermans & van Haaren (AvH) in Sofinim owners of Spano Invest, whose Belgian operations include a 700,000m³/yr PB mill with three continuous press production lines in Oostrozebeke; its Dekaply PB/MDF melamine laminating furniture plant in Erembodegem; and a lacquering plant in Merchtem. Spano Invest was also selling its 50% stake in its Trinterio joint venture, which included MDF/HDF producer Spanolux and laminate flooring producer Balterio, to its joint venture business partner Balta Group. Balta in return planed to sell Trinterio as an entity to the IVC Group, a producer of vinyl flooring with plants in Avelgem, Belgium (IVC Group headquarters) and IVC Wiltz, GD Luxembourg. Spanogroup and Unilin were both interested in the acquisition of the shares of Ackermans & Van Haaren. Following Unilin’s takeover of Spano Group, Belgium, in mid 2014, the company announced that it was investing more than €40mn in two of the three production lines in its Wielsbeke location to cut production costs. One of the Wielsbeke lines was to be gradually dismantled and the production rate of the two remaining plants (Wielsbeke and Oostrozebeke) were to be stepped up accordingly. Total production capacity was to remain unchanged.
Company Mergers & Acquisitions
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Tricoya Technologies Ltd. via Accsys Technologies entered into
a joint development, production and distribution license agreement with
Medite Europe Ltd. to build and operate a plant to manufacture an initial
42,000m³/yr, of Tricoya® MDF panels, with a time limited option to increase
capacity upon payment of additional fees. Board approval is targeted for
mid-2014 with plant completion aimed for by end 2015. Accsys developed
and commercialised Accoya wood which is characterised by its durability,
dimensional stability and reliability properties and have been replicated in the
wood fibre used to manufacture Medite Tricoya.
Daiken Corp., Japan, was to acquire a 51% financial stake in
C&H Co. Ltd. a wholly-owned subsidiary of MDF producer Hokushin Co. Japan,
effective to an agreement made on January 31, 2013. Daiken, produces MDF
and is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of wood interior building
materials and housing equipment.
Proteak Uno S.A.B. de C.V. was involved in the acquisition of Forestaciones Operativas de Mexico SA de CV, (FOMEX) the national
eucalyptus plantation business of industrial conglomerate Grupo
Kuo. Proteak will thus have resource to the FSC cer tif ied eucalypt
plantations in Tabasco and its neighbouring states Oaxaca & Veracruz.
Proteak Uno, secured a US$90mn loan from Commerzbank,
Germany to fund the construction of a green field 115,000m³/yr MDF
plant near Huimanguillo in the state of Tabasco, Mexico for operation
by the first quar ter of 2015. The Project is par t of a US$140mn forestry
project that will encompas about 8,000ha of eucalyptus forest. It
will be the company’s f irst large-scale industrial plant for wood-
based products. Proteak has over 18,000 ha of teak and eucalyptus
plantations in Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, making it the largest
forestry plantation operator in Mexico and Central America. This is
currently the largest forestry and timber project in Mexico and Proteak
will be creating around 500 jobs in Tabasco as a result.
Sonae Industria’s French subsidiary Isoroy’s total PB production capacity fell to 6.2mn m³/yr following the sale completed
in March 2014, of the company’s Auxerre and Montchanin-Le Creusot
plants to the Kronospan Group. Sonae Indústria, planned to reduce
production at its Glunz par ticleboard plant in HorBad Meinberg,
Germany because of industry overcapacity and lower demand for PB.
It will instead focus on its on-going strategy to reduce the group’s
industrial footprint and to concentrate on its more ef f icient and
profitable operations.
Duratex, Brazil acquired 80.62% of the equity capital of Tablemac, Columbia following its latest tender of fer made in January
2014. Duratex has a production capacity in MDF of 2,180,000m³/yr
and Tablemac has a capacity of 285,000m³ based on MDF Yearbook
data. The engineered combined plant capacity in PB is 795,000m³
and in MDF 240,000m³. The completion of the transaction saw the
exit by SierraPine from the production of f ibre-based panels. The
transaction of fer price was not released but was above US$107mn,
plus a variable amount of up to $13mn.
Flakeboard America Ltd., a US subsidiary of Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA, agreed in January 2014 to buy the western US
panel assets of SierraPine, a California limited par tnership, consist-
ing of two par ticleboard plants located in California and Oregon, and
an MDF plant in Oregon. The Arauco plants in Nor th America thus
have an installed panel capacity of 2 billion feet sq. f t . (¾” basis)
or 3.5 mn m³, adding to the capacity of the panel plants that Arauco
operates in Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Arauco US and Canada became combined under one organization
as Arauco Nor th America ef fective August 1, 2014. The primary
objective of the reorganization has been to position for growth and
provide comprehensive solutions to customers using a more ef fective
and ef f icient operating plat form.
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Fibreboard Producer Company Business Comparisons
B U S I N E S S
The accompanying fibreboard producer company business and operational profile charts have been selected to provide a comparison of how new and old established companies in different countries, during the past seven years have expanded their operations, or not, by investment and M&A. The charts (graphic images) have been compiled using information obtained from company financial accounts and annual reports.
Each of the companies operate in a different market place and each company
differs by underlying business/production/location and raw material access
strengths, as do their profitability ratings. The linking of specific company
information as presented, with general trends observed within the fibreboard
and related panel products industry, provides an underlying ‘business Global
Positioning System (GPS) route’ to signal the present destination to which a
majority of companies are being driven, or are directly heading.
Barriers to future profitable destinations are already appearing. Moody’s
recent observation in a related context, that: “Most corporate strategies
remain unchanged, despite recent management changes.” says a lot. Moody’s
added, that while the relatively high number of new senior management
appointments could indicate that a corporate strategy refocus is about to
take place, the initiatives the companies have subsequently announced are
in line with their existing strategies. “Challenges will persist for companies
with narrower product focuses.” This all adds up to a strong management
message to ‘Watch Out’.-
Fibreboard Producers Heading Where and Why?Future levels of capital expenditure (capex), in fibreboard (MDF/HDF/)
manufacture on a sub-regional scale, will probably decline in the face of
secular reduction in market demand verses ongoing excess engineered
production capacity. Capex includes spending on greensite plants, to include
enhanced and updated machine and processing equipment, across a broad
group of main-stream panel producer companies.
Many new plants have been built in low production cost regions with a
strong focus on product exports to mature economy regions. Given that a
typical three year’s ‘start to finish’ time span between order placement and
first production on a new fibreboard line, has often coincided with the slow
annual rise in consumer-led demand in mature economy regions for down-
stream converted panel materials products, The inevitable result has seen a
boost in underlying panel manufacturing capacity. This situation is common
on both a global and a sub-regional scale and has affected stability in the
primary and secondary supply chains. Future capex will favour discrete areas
of manufacture, product development, composite panel materials, hybrid
and secular market catchment areas.
Corporate profitability has generally weakened across the fibreboard
industry, although trading improvement in the financial year-end 2014 signals
an upward movement as the more diversified fibre-based panel producers
have posted solid EBITDA growth as seen in the accompanying charts. An
important observation is that the improvement in the financial performance
of these companies is a reflection of managements’ strained efforts to
reposition, or to broaden their business profiles. This situation poses serious
challenges for many existing companies that operate within too narrow, or
too broad a product range. Examination of the product catchment areas of
some companies borders on the ‘extraordinary’ and this is likely to favour the
disposal side of M&A, which in future is expected to become a heightened
activity across the generic panels industry. M&A may be at a slow pace
because of the dominance of privately-owned companies in the industry, for
which comparable financial data is withheld.
However, seeking out suitable M&A companies is not easy and it is
known that several ‘M&A Gatherers’ have not been able to find suitors. A
significant number of companies in Asia, South America and other sub-
continents are judged to have substantial debt obligations following large
capital investments in new plant and equipment, which calls for sufficient
liquidity to fund indebtedness obligations. In the absence of detailed financial
data, it is not an easy task to single-out respectable M&A entities, financially
or otherwise, in an overall market environment that one way or the other is
subject to changes.
Meanwhile, expansion plans continue to drive capital expenditure (capex)
on new plant and equipment across many regions and thus continues to reflect
the recent years of high level capital expenditure among a large percentage
of panel producing companies. In consequence, the level of sub-regional
rated production capacity in the majority of cases exceeds current levels of
market demand both on a domestic scale as well as in most export targeted
countries. Brazil, is a current example of over-capacity where significant new
plants/lines have been added and from which surplus domestic production
has been aimed at export markets that already face over supply.
The scenario as broadly described, points to future capex being aimed
at the more discrete areas of: Manufacture, alternative product development,
composite panel materials, hybrid/ recyclable and secular market catchment
areas. Interestingly, while there has been a steady rise in the installation of
high-volume production plant and lines (400,000-700,000 plus m³), there is
also a supporting demand for small volume (30,000-50,000m³) lines in the
same producer regions.
There are various underlying reasons for such an apparent anomaly in
what is seen to be an emerging scenario, which for many companies in
the fibre-based panels production sectors will mean that, ‘Global will not
be Global anymore’. A similar change in business environment has in the
past been experienced by other manufacturing industry sectors. Thus, the
fibre-based panels conglomerate industry is virtually certain to begin to follow
a shift in investment strategies and structural change in a similar fashion to
the routes that were adopted a number of years ago by the ‘pulp, paper/
paperboard’ and the ‘paper/plastics’ based packaging industries.
The two noted industries have features in common with the generic
‘panels’ product industry in terms of managements’ responsiveness to:
Consumer life-style changes, demand preference and sub-regional supply-
chain centrics. The ‘panels’ industry however is still well behind the business
strategy and directional changes that were introduced across the enormous
scale of the packaging industry.
It is not by chance that management in the prime products upstream
packaging industry, about 12 years ago began to sideline the dedicated goal
of ‘ 24/7 production’ and engaged in a massive structural change in which
M&A at the time, proved to be the core solution to securing company stability.
In this respect the ‘panels’ products industry has much more in common
with the paper and board industry. Interestingly, the mature and expansive,
high volume 24/7operational paper sector itself has delayed in addressing
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the down-stream effects of information technology on the demand for
publication paper, especially newsprint.
Today’s management in the paper industry has been slow to address the
distinct and growing challenge arising from the day-to-day reality of paper-
displacement IT technology. Moody’s recent comment on the above lines,
notes that some lead paper companies are very exposed and as an example
points to Sappi, as not having paid a dividend since 2009. Sappi however, is
not a member of an isolated industry!
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The fibre-based panel manufacturing industry (FBPI) is heading for a change in its structural base on a sub-regional scale in response to the upstream effects of consumer life-style changes in both the emerging and the mature economy nations. It can be observed that ‘Global in not Global anymore’ in the context of how this may be ‘charted’ following the recession.
Industry Data Viewed in a Different Way
Today’ management has become less interest-
ed in descriptive editorial of a traditional style
and prefers to seek specific subject focused
data. To meet this preference, the editors have
created a special series of subject-defined
data charts. The charts not only reflect basic
changes, but they also serve to graphically
highlight where the overall panels industry and
its product sectors are currently positioned in
regard to product and business sustainability on
a sub-regional and regional scale.
The message to management that is por-
trayed in some charts, is not as simple as it
may at first seem. In some cases, one or more
charts may appear to be in conflict, because
they present a fresh analytical view of industry-
specific data that is available. On this particular
point, readers’ attention is especially drawn
to the discursive on “Global Production
Capacity Contention.“
The generic fibre/wood-based panels in-
dustry has followed a typical market expansive
development route along the conventional
product life-cycle curve. The nearest equivalent
industry example is the packaging industry,
which has certain similarities with FBPI, but for
obvious reasons packaging has endured along
a much more protracted time scale, compared
with the FBPI.
The packaging industry was able to
develop largely within its own product con-
fines, whereas the FBPI has been more
exposed to competitive and substi-
tute products and sub-regional end-user
demand differences. Commercial sustainabil-
ity across the FBPI involves a number of con-
straints, which have to do with: Excess manu-
facturing capacity vs demand on a regional and
sub-regional scale; weak or zero net profitability
for many companies; limited or restricted fi-
brous raw material resources; competitive or
leveraged alternative end-use demand for the
same, or similar raw materials; manufacturing
inflexibility, etc. The FBPI however is poised to
enter a new development period as a typical
extension of the maturity stage in the traditional
product life-cycle.
A current and forward data-based manage-
ment awareness profile of the FB/PB industry is
graphically presented in the numerous charts in
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China’s MDF machinery market has seen a slowdown in recent years following an earlier boom period running from the 1990s to the early 2000s when demand for MDF experienced rapid growth due initially to a sharp increase in furniture exports, in particular to the United States.
China: MDF Machinery Market Demand Slows as Exports Rise
Demand for MDF continued to grow, and encouraged more companies
to install MDF production lines, as China’s domestic market for furniture
and interior fittings started to expand rapidly as the country’s housing
construction market started to boom.
Shanghai Wood-Based Panel Machinery Co Ltd. (SWPM) has been a
leading supplier of MDF machinery in China for the past three decades.
Now owned by Deiffenbacher of Germany, SWPM is one of the world’s
largest producers of multi open-face MDF machines and has recently
become an important supplier of 4ft continuous presses to the Chinese
domestic market.
New machinery contract signings have slowed down in China over
the past year due to a number of reasons, according to Li Jie, SWPM’s
International Sales Department manager. The large installed MDF pro-
duction capacity in China is one important factor, which is discouraging
new investment when existing manufacturing facilities already exceed
MDF demand.
“The China market is still in the process of slowing. Environment
protection is becoming more and more important, and investment in
real estate is slowing,” Li Jie said. “Also, China’s MDF and PB production
capacity is much bigger than consumption.”
Unlike other countries where PB production has often grown faster
than MDF, China’s furniture manufacturers and timber decorative con-
struction fittings producers favour MDF as is the dominant panel board
used in furniture making and residential kitchen and bathroom cabinets
and worktops.
PB production has started to grow recently as some large new lines
have been installed, while MDF has managed to retain its domestic wood
panel market share. “The market in general is stable, it ’s not good and not
bad. MDF is still popular,” Li Jie commented.
SWPM produces several different MDF and PB presses in a number
of sizes. It ’s 4ft Contiplus continuous press MDF line is supplied domesti-
cally and exported with various models being available ranging in capac-
ity from 300m³/day to 600m³/day.
SWPM also supplies its multi-opening hot press MDF line which rang-
es in capacity from 150m³/day to 400m³/day. The 4ft x 8ft and the 4ft
x 16ft models are supplied locally and exported while the 6ft x 12ft and
the 6ft x 18ft are only exported at present. SWPM PB lines for the local
market and export include it ’s 4ft Contiplus continuous press of 500m³/
day to 740m³/day capacity, which also includes technical support from
Dieffenbacher’s head office in China and overseas.
The company also supplies locally and exports its multi-opening hot
press PB line which makes 4ft x 8ft board, while it ’s 6ft x 9ft and 6ft x 12ft
multi-opening hot press PB lines of 180m³/day to 500m³/day capacity
are only for export.
In China, five of SWPM’s newly installed 4ft Contiplus continuous
press lines of between 400m³/day to 650m³/day started commercial
production in 2013, plus three newly commissioned lines in 2014. Six
lines of between 500m³/day to 600m³/day ordered in 2013 and 2014
have still to enter commercial operation. Also, five of SWMP’s newly in-
stalled multi-opening MDF lines of 50,000m³/yr to 80,000m³/yr entered
commercial operation in 2013 and one in 2014. A further four new lines
contracted in 2013 and 2014 have still to enter commercial service.
Asked which of the company’s MDF and PB lines are most popular,
Li Jie replied: “Our 4ft x 8ft and 4ft x 16ft multi-opening press MDF lines
and 4ft x 38.9m Contiplus continuous press lines are popular in China.
SWPM has been a leading company in this market for many years with a
big market share. “We guided the MDF industry’s development in China.”
Meanwhile, SWPM’s exports of MDF and PB lines is growing as the
company’s machines become better known among wood panel board
manufacturers worldwide. “We export MDF and PB presses to many
countries, such as Brazil, Mexico, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Iran, Belarus,
Poland, Slovakia and others,” Li Jie said. “The sales trends in 2014 show
that some markets in South America and the Middle East are developing
very well.”
According to SWPM, the company supplied an 80,000m³/yr multi-
opening line to Vietnam, which started commercial operation in 2013 and
a 40,000m³/yr line to Mexico, which started up in 2014. The company
also received overseas orders for two 40,000m³/yr multi-opening lines
from Mexico in 2014 and for one 120,000m³/yr line from Iran last year.
Asked whether SWPM expects its MDF and PB machinery exports to
grow in 2015, Li Jie replied: “We hope so. Possible projects will be from
countries such as Brazil, Iran, India, Thailand, Indonesia, and some from
Africa as well.”
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GPC Figures in Contention
The compilation and updating of the Global/Regional company production-
capacity listings that follow, has demanded many hours of information
collection and data cross-checking. In so doing, access to individual company
on-line information has been most useful as a means of validating company
information and also in other respects. However, inconsistencies and
variations are quite often found to exist in the accuracy of information that
is available. For instance, the information stated on the websites of large
corporate companies, or company groups, sometimes differs from the
statements and announcements made by different subsidiary companies,
or operating divisions within an organisation. It appears very seldom that this
can this be attributed to language translation.
Differences also often arise in the ‘quoted or claimed’ production capacity
figures of a named company and even in the stated locations of green-site
production plants. Not only this, but also quite often, the rated engineered-
production capacity of a new line as reported by a particular supplier, will differ
from the capacity figure announced by the company who placed the order!.
Perhaps the most likely answer for such a discrepancy is that the company
placing the order sees this as an opportunity for ‘capacity exaggeration’ as a
means of leveraging commercial ‘One Upmanship’, with the possibility that
competitors may delay plans for their own capacity expansion. This is not
an unknown practice, and also applies to other industries, to the point that
sometimes a company will announce a new capital investment project and
continue with excuses linked to delays, without ever having any intention of
further commitment to invest in a project.
It is well understood of course, that the nominal rated engineered-
production capacity, of a new line at the time of ordering, is ultimately
dependent on a number of in-plant manufacturing variables, such as raw
material consistency, volume throughput/order changes, maintenance, etc.
There are few hard and fast rules, but actual practical operating production
limits only become apparent after a new line becomes fully commissioned.
This is not of course related in any way to the initial basic engineered-
production capacity of a specified line, at the time of ordering.
In reality, the production capacity figures for the majority of panel
producer companies operating in the main sub-continental regions are
available. Inevitably anomalies and inaccuracies arise in the cross-matching of
individual company capacity figures that apply to the different generic panel
materials. The MDF YEARBOOK production capacity figures in the Global
Company Listings are based, either on the initially-designed engineered-
capacity of the line(s) when installed; or on subsequent achievable volume
output levels as stated by the producing company.
As ongoing changes in production variables occur on a regular basis,
it is understood that the rated capacity levels only signify a ‘bench-mark’
maximum achievable production output based on a theoretical assumption
that at any given time, every company on a sub-regional and global scale was
able to produce at a maximum volume capacity. While this never happens,
the aggregated total capacity figures are important because they provide a
basic input to making analytical assessments of regional forecasts linked to
demand, economic growth, industry profitability and related aspects.
Regrettably therefore, varying levels of inconsistency exists between the
capacity levels reported by primary and secondary industry-wide information
sources. These sources typically include: Federations, Associations, UNECE/
FAO, Universities, Financial Analysts, Consultants, Management Reports and
Industry Magazines.
The overall extent of information disparity is sometimes extensive, with a
result that serious concern arises over the level of accuracy and reliability of
data published by certain ‘high-profile’ sources. At a lower level, one example
is a management report published in 2014 on the global wood-based panels
producing industry that refers to changing business and financial competition
dynamics, etc. The report introduction mentioned seven top ranking Asia-
Pacific panel companies. Yet only two of the named companies are eligible
for selection in terms to their being actual producers of wood-based panels.
For this very reason, our editors and correspondents are very careful not to
include companies that directly claim (or via language translation) to be panel
‘producers’, but do not themselves manufacture basic panel materials.
In another recent report dedicated to “Fibreboard Panel Manufacture”, a
total mismatch arose because of a lack of ability by the compiler to distinguish
the difference in meaning between fibreboard panel producers and
corrugated fibreboard producers. In the corrugated board industry it is quite
common to refer to fibreboard without the prefix of corrugated as the industry
is familiar with its truncated internal language. Thus, the costly management
There is no single, primary, global information source, that details all individual companies’ production involvement in all the basic wood/fibre based panel materials.
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report that claimed to provide extensive comparative company and market
data, consumption and forward demand forecasts across the wood-based
panels industry, was compromised to the point of being less than useless!.
Moreover, buyers of this costly report from outside the industry, may not have
been aware of the erroneous miss-match.
Of potentially greater concern however, is a high-profile, well documented
and charted analysis of supply and demand relationships across the global
wood/fibre panels sectors and in which several discrepancies exists in the
perceived accuracy of regional production capacity figures as documented. In
this instance, the sources of information are separately noted, which points to
an endemic problem linked to third-party compiled data inaccuracies based
on an element of incompleteness. For example, a country in Europe, which
only has two panel producing local operating companies, as reported has
a -19% gap in the two plant’s total engineered capacity. In the case of this
single country example, the figure hardly presents a major problem, other
than that it is incorrect. Yet, in the same year, the total gap evident in the
European-wide total capacity level as reported, amounts to 21.6%. This is
the equivalent of 17,000,000m³, based on the MDF YEARBOOK company
listings and capacity data.
This is too large a number of missing companies and related capacity
figurers on a sub-regional scale to simply be excused on the basis of
inaccuracies. Accordingly, this raises an ultimate question of what are the
likely downstream effects that unreliable information may have on analysis
involving: Trade flow patterns, production vs demand, raw materials demand,
manufacturing investment, competition, sustainability, etc.
Unfortunately this is not the place to attempt to provide specific answers to
the above question, nor to pinpoint the information sources that are viewed
as being in contention. However, the answers to the question are deemed
to be obvious enough and a detailed examination of the updated FB/PB
capacity situation is included in this issue of the Yearbook.
The subject of over-capacity in the main sub-regional producing areas
and related aspects are on the agenda for discussion and debate, during the
forthcoming International Fiber/Wood-Based Panels Conference in Chicago,
IL, USA, November 11-12th organised jointly between the MDF YEARBOOK
and AWA Alexander Watson Associates.
The number of missing companies on a global scale that would account for such a capacity difference when based on the typical operating capacity of plants in Europe alone, is in the order of 175+.
Global MDF Listing 2015
EXPLANATORY NOTESCompanies or their subsidiaries, or group affiliates, which may or may not
trade as a separate entity, or trade under a different name, or retain their
original company name within a new group ownership following a merger
or sale, will appear grouped together in a single colour band in the region or
individual country in which they operate. The prime operating company or
corporate group owner is listed alphabetically and is followed alphabetically
by any subsidiary or affiliate companies trading under a common name or
a different name and producing the appropriate panel within the product
listing. The same colour is used to identify any group of companies within a
corporate umbrella throughout the entire listing to avoid confusion.
1. Company Group(s) or Companies with sub-divisions that trade sepa-
rately, and/or wholly-owned affiliates which trade within a group um-
brella name, but which may have separate business trading names, are
grouped together when they have operations (plants) that are located
in the same region/country.
2. Names of companies in various countries that are commonly prefixed
with a number of letters, e.g., OOO; LPK, followed by the principle name
of the company are listed alphabetically by the first or principal trading
name. In this case the company listings are structured so that the prefix
letters are placed after the main name. For example OAO Mostovdrev,
appears as Mostovdrev OAO. This is so that companies can be indexed
appropriately.
3. Capacity figurers shown for each company are based on information
gathered from various sources, mainly machinery suppliers and com-
panies themselves. Engineered capacity figurers shown against each
company are subject to permanent changes as a result of additional
equipment or updating and are noted when advised. In certain cases,
new production lines are ordered as a replacement, or an addition
to existing lines in a single or dual plant on a single site. The engineered
capacity for any company or operating subsidiaries as noted above,
may be shown as a single figure for each production line, or shown
as a single total for a plant. In cases where new lines are on order for
an existing plant and part delivery has taken place, the rated capacity
of the line/plant as specified is included. This means that in any
single year, the installed sub-total engineered capacity per country
or region, in practical terms may not be in place (installed).
Since the company capacity listings cover the years: 2013-2014
and 2014-2015, then an unknown flexibility (delay) can exist
in the capacity figurers. The same applies in cases where plants have
closed and have reopened at a much later date, which may not have
been announced.
FIBREBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: NORTH AMERICA
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Canada Flakeboard (Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA, Chile) St. Stephen, New Brunswick 191,000 191,000
Flakeboard (Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA, Chile) Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario 310,000 310,000
Flakeboard (Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA, Chile) Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario 150,000 150,000
Uniboard Canada - Arauco (ex Kaycan Ltd. -ex Pfleiderer ex Kunz) Mont Laurier, Quebec 150,000 150,000
West Fraser Mills Ltd. (ex Blue Ridge Lumber) Blue Ridge, Alberta 283,000 283,000
WestPine MDF (West Fraser) Quesnel, British Columbia 248,000 248,000
Total Canada 1,332,000 1,332,000
Mexico Del-Tin Fiber LLC (Deltic Timber Corp ex Tin/Temple Inland/IP) Arkansas 275,000 275,000
Duraplay de Parral SA de CV Chihuahua 200,000
Industrias Emman de Ocotlan Ocotlan, Jalisco 35,000 35,000
Maderas Conglomeradas, (Macosa) Cuidad de Mexico 60,000 60,000
Maderas y Sinteticos S.A. (Masisa) Durango 200,000
Rexcel S.A. de C.V Maderas y Sintéticos de México S.A. (ex Grupo Kuo) Chihuahua 200,000
Proteak One S.A.B. De CV Tabasco, Huimanguillo 115,000
Total Mexico 370,000 1,085,000
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USA Arauco Panels USA; ex Uniboard USA LLC, subs Pfleiderer in 2012; ex ATC Panels Moncure, North Carolina 330,000 330,000
Flakeboard America Ltd. (Arauco, Chile ex-Weyerhaeuser) Malvern, Arkansas 310,000 310,000
Flakeboard America Ltd. (Arauco, Chile ex-Weyerhaeuser) Eugene, Oregon 154,000 154,000
Flakeboard America Ltd. (Arauco, Chile ex-Weyerhaeuser) Bennettsville, South Carolina 251,000 251,000
Flakeboard America Ltd. (Arauco, Chile ex-Weyerhaeuser) Stephen New Brunswick 108,000 108,000
ATC Panels Inc Shippenville, Pennsylvania 239,000 239,000
CMI/Craftmaster Manufacturing Towanda, Pennsylvannia 177,000 177,000
Great Lakes MDF LLC Lackawanna, New York 120,000 120,000
Clarion Boards Inc. MDF/HDF Shippenville, Pennsylvania 140,000 140,000
Kronospan (P & M Kaindl) Eastaboga, Alabama 240,000 240,000
Kronotex USA Holdings (E. Kaindl) Barnwell, South Carolina 440,000 440,000
Langboard Inc Willacoochee, Georgia 240,000 240,000
Medite MDF (Sierra-Pine ex Medite) Medford, Oregon 250,000 250,000
Norbord Inc., (subs Nexfor Canada) Deposit, New York 160,000 160,000
Pan Pacific Products (Dominance Industries Inc) Broken Bow, Oklahoma 130,000 130,000
Paragon Panels of Alabama LLC Clayton, Alabama 264,000 264,000
Pembroke MDF (ex ATC Panels) closed since 2008 part reopened Pembroke Ontario 133,000
Plum Creek Timber Co Inc Columbia Falls, Montana 560,000 560,000
SierraPine Medford, Oregon 240,000 240,000
Roseburg Forest Products Holly Hill, South Carolina 100,000 100,000
Temple Inland (bought by International Paper in 2012) Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvnia 255,000 255,000
Temple-Inland (jv Del-Tin Fiber Fiber) El Dorado, Arkansas 285,000 285,000
Unilin US MDF (Mohawk Industries) Mt. Gilead, North Carolina 250,000 250,000
Total USA 5,243,000 5,376,000
TOTAL NORTH AMERICA 6,945,000 7,793,000
FIBREBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: SOUTH AMERICA
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Argentina Arauco, Chile (Alto Paraná LD Manufacturing SA) Puerto Piray, Misiones 300,000 300,000
Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Concordia, Entre Rios 280,000 280,000
Tableros Guillermina (Ferrum ) Villa Guillermina 45,000 45,000
Total Argentina 625,000 625,000
Brazil Asperbras Aqua Clara 200,000
Berneck Aglomerados Araucária, Paraná 345, 000 345, 000
Berneck Aglomerados Curitibanos, Santa Catarina 500,000
Duratex ex Satipel Industrial S.A Agudos, São Paolo 250,000 250,000
Duratex ex Satipel Industrial S.A Lines 2 Agudos, São Paolo 750,000 750,000
Duratex ex Satipel Industrial S.A Botucatu 450,000 450,000
Duratex ex Satipel Industrial S.A Itapetininga, São Paolo 520,000
Duratex ex Satipel Industrial S.A Minas Gerais, Uberaba 350,000 350,000
Duratex Triângulo Minerio, Minas Gerais
Eucatex MDF São Paolo 350,000 350,000
Fibraplac Paineis Maderia SA (Isdralit Group) Glorinha, RS 420,000 420,000
Fibraplac Paineis Maderia SA (Isdralit Group) Glorinha, RS 250,000
Floraplac (Grupo Concrem) Paragominas 220,000 220,000
Floraplac (Grupo Concrem) THDF Paragominas 320,000
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Forestal Arauco SA (former Placas do Paraná; ex Tafisa-Sonae) Lines 2 Pièn, Paraná 530,000 530,000
Guararapes Paineís Ltd.A Caçador, Santa Catarina 200,000 200,000
Industrias de Compensados Sudati 120,000 120,000
Industrias de Compensados Guarapes 120,000 120,000
Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Jaguariaiva, Paraná 310,000 310,000
Masisa do Brasil (Grupo Nueva) 2 lines Ponte Grossa, Paraná 280,000 302,000
Placas do Brazil SA (ex Tafisa Brasil (Sonae Indústria) 2 lines Pièn, Paraná 342,000 342,000
Placas do Brazil SA (ex Tafisa Brasil (Sonae Indústria) 1 line Pièn, Paraná 270,000 270,000
Placas do Brazil SA (ex Tafisa Brasil (Sonae Indústria) Pinheiros 180,000
Sudati Paineís Ltd.A Santa Catarina 220,000 220,000
Total Brazil 5,182,000 7,174,000
Columbia Tablemac MDF S.A.S. LDF (Duratex 82% partner) Barbosa, Antioquia 155,000 287,000
Tableros de Fibras (MDF) Barbosa, Antioquia 92,000 92,000
Total Columbia 247,000 379,000
Chile Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Cabrero 280,000 280,000
Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Coronel, Concepción 150,000 150,000
Paneles Arauco 2 lines (165,000 & 350,000) Trupan-Cholguan 515,000 515,000
Polincay La Unión 150,000 150,000
Total Chile 1,095,000 1,095,000
Ecuador Aglomerados Cotopaxi S.A ACOSA (Gem Corp) Lasso (Quito) 70,000 70,000
Novopan del Ecuador 200,000 300,000
Total Ecuador 270,000 370,000
Uruguay Urupanel SA Aglomerados Cotopaxi S.A ACOSA (Gem Corp) Tacuarembó 105,000 105,000
Total Uruguay 105,000 105,000
Venezuela Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Puerto Ordaz 310,000 310,000
Total Venezuela 310,000 310,000
TOTAL SOUTH AMERICA 7,834,000 10,058,000
FIBREBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: SOUTH AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Rep of S. Africa Sonae Novobord, (ex Sappi ) (Sonae Industria) White River 110,000 110,000
FX Veneers & Industrial Development Corp (government) Mpumalanga Highveld 215,000 215,000
FX Veneers & Industrial Development Corp (government) Mpumalanga Highveld 200,000
Bison PG (KAP Ind Holdings Ltd. & Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd.) Johannesburg, Boksburg 140,000 140,000
Total South Africa 465,000 465,000
Malawai Raiply EPZ Ltd. Malawi Lilongwe 100,000 100,000
Total Malawi 100,000 100,000
Tunisia Medwoods (Groupe Poulina) Grombalia 30,000 30,000
Stibois MDF (MDF/HDF) Grombalia 32,000 32,000
Total Tunisia 62,000 62,000
TOTAL AFRICA 627,000 627,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Iran Arian Chemie Inc Sari 139,000 139,000
Arian Sina Mazandaran, Sari 120,000 120,000
Arta Pan (Arta Industrial Group) Ardebil Iran 150,000 150,000
Caspian Sea MDF Terhan 165,000 165,000
Jahat Tahghighat Group (JTG) Sugar Cane Development & By Products Co Shoaibieh, Khuzestan 150,000 150,000
Neopan (Bartar) Mashad 310,000 310,000
Neopan (Pars) Tonekabon, Nashtaroud 75,000 75,000
Neka Choub Co Sari Mazandaran 75,000 75,000
Sanaye Choob Khazar Amol, Mazandaran 47,000 47,000
Takhte Feshordeh Bartar Bartar 75,000 75,000
Total Iran 1,306,000 1,306,000
TOTAL MIDDLE EAST 1,933,000 1,933,000
FIBREBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: ASIA PACIFIC EXCLUDING CHINA
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Australia Alpine MDF Industries Pty (Sumitomo Forestry Group) Wangaratta, Vic 150,000 150,000
Borg Mfg (ex CHH ) Oberon, NSW 260,000 260,000
Laminex Group (Fletcher Building Ltd.) Gympie, Queensland 246,000 246,000
Kewdale, W. A. 120,000 120,000
Total Australia 776,000 776,000
Bangladesh Akij Particle & Hard Board Mills Ltd. (Akij Group) Torraghat, Manikgonj 250,000 250,000
Total Bangladesh 250,000 250,000
India Associate Decor ex Star Panel (jv Associate Group/Kings Wood ) Malur Karnataka 250,000 250,000
Associate Decor ex Star Panel (jv Associate Group/Kings Wood ) Bangalkore 140,000 140,000
Bajaj Eco-Tec Products Palia Kalan 80,000 80,000
Bajaj Eco-Tec Products Kundarkhi 80,000 80,000
Ecoboard Industries- EIL (former Western Bio Systems Ltd.) Solapur Maharashtra 66,000 66,000
Greenply Industries Andhra Pradesh
Greenply Industries Pantnagar Rampura 200,000 200,000
Greenply Industries Rudrapur, Uttarakhand 200,000 200,000
Mangalam Timber Products Ltd. (Burla Group) MDF/HDF Kolkata 60,000 60,000
Nuchem Ltd. Tohana, Haryana 60,000 60,000
Rushil Decor Chikmagalur, Karnataka 90,000 90,000
Shirdi Industies Uttarakhand 45,000 45,000
Teekays MDF (I) Ltd. Karnataka, Bangalore 100,000 100,000
1,371,000 1,371,000
Total India 1,371,000 1,371,000
Indonesia Agro Lines, Chacheongsao Jambi, Sumatra 85,000 96,000
Canang Indah Medan, North Sumatra 100,000 100,000
Hijau Lestari Raya Fibreboard JV Evergreen & Hutrindo 51/49%, Palembang, Sumatra 120,000 120,000
Hutrindo Jaya Fibreboard Palembang, Sumatra 95,000 100,000
Indonesia Fiberboard Industry PT (former ATR) Daerah Khusus Ibukot, Jakarta 250,000 250,000
Khon Kaen MDF Board Co. Samut Prakan 25,000 25,000
Masari Dwisekepat Fibre (Mukti Group) Karwang, West Java 90,000 90,000
Metro Group Kanchanaburi 90,000 90,000
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P.T. Sumatera Prima Fibreboard (Super thin MDF) Palembang, South Sumatra 300,000 300,000
P.T. Sumatera Prima Fibreboard HDF Palembang, South Sumatra 170,000 170,000
STA Group, Hat Yai 100000 Palembang, Sumatra 30,000 30,000
Sumalindo Lestari Jaya Tbk Senoni, East Kalimantan 110,000 110,000
Sumalindo Lestari Jaya Tbk Samarinda, East Kalimantan 95,000 95,000
P.T. IFI Jakarta 250,000
Thai Plywood, Saraburi Saraburi 75,000 75,000
Vanachai MDFP Line 1, Chon Buri 90,000 90,000
Vanachai MDFP Line 2, Chon Buri 110,000 110,000
Total Indonesia 1,835,000 2,101,000
Japan Daiken Miri sdn (2 plants) Sarawak 110,000 110,000
Hokushin, Lines I & III Kishiwada, Osaka 250,000 250,000
N&E Co. Komatsushima 120,000 120,000
Noda Plywood Shimizu, Shizuoka 170,000 170,000
Seihoku Veneer Group Ishinomaki 100,000 100,000
Total Japan 750,000 750,000
Korea, Rep Chungkoo, Seoul Seoul 60,000 60,000
Dong In Hansoi 1, Asan Kun 85,000 85,000
Dongwha Enterprise Co. Asan 165,000 165,000
Dongwha Enterprise Co. Dongwha I & II Inchon 255,000 255,000
Foresco Inchon 174,000 174,000
Hansoi Home Deco Iksan 250,000 250,000
Kari Chemical 1, Kunsan Lines 2 Kunsan 175,000 175,000
Kwangwon Lumber Inchon 270,000 270,000
Kwangwon Lumber (new line) Inchon 100,000 100,000
Kyung Nam Industrial Inchon 60,000 60,000
Sun Chang Corp Inchon 315,000 315,000
Taesung Wood Industry Corp Inchon 54,000 54,000
UNID Co. Ltd. THDF Gunsan 340,000 340,000
Total Rep. of Korea 2,303,000 2,303,000
Malaysia Daiken Sarawak (Daiken/Itochu) Bintulu, Sarawak 105,000 105,000
Dongwha Fibreboard Sdn (ex Golden Hope Fibreboard in 2003) Negeri, Seremban 250,000 250,000
Dongwha Fibreboard Sdn (ex-Merbok, Lines I & II) Kedah Darul Aman 260,000 260,000
Dongwha MDF (M) Sdn (ex-Guthrie MDF) Kulim, Kedah Darul Aman 140,000 140,000
Evergreen Fibreboard (Nilai) (ex Hume Fibreboad Sdn Lines 3 Nilai, Seremban 250,000 250,000
Evergreen Fibreboard Berhad Lines 3 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor 250,000 250,000
Evergreen MDF Fibreboard (JB) Masai, Johor 120,000 120,000
Merbok MDF Sdn (Merbok Hilir Group) Kedah Darul Aman 250,000 250,000
Robin Resources (M) Sdn Bhd (Robin Group China) Mentakab 180,000 180,000
Samling Fibreboard, Lines I & II (Daiken/Itochu) Miri, Sarawak 100,000 100,000
Segamat Panel Boards (Takeuchi) Lines 2 Segamat, Johor 72,000 72,000
Soon Hua Seng Group (Rubberwood hybrid MDF) Gemas, N. Sembilan 15,000 15,000
Total Malaysia 1,992,000 1,992,000
New Zealand Juken New Zealand (was Juken Nissho Kaitaia) Auckland 85,000 85,000
Carter Holt Harvey Eves Valley Nelson 120,000 120,000
Carter Holt Harvey Panels Sefton 220,000 220,000
Dongwha Patinna (ex Rayonier) Gore, South Island 140,000 140,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Daiken New Zealand (Daiken/Itochu) (ex CHH) Rangiora, South Island 220,000 220,000
Nelson Pine Industries (Sumitomo Forestry Group) Nelson, Richmond, S.I. 350,000 350,000
Wenita Forest Milburn 120,000 120,000
Total New Zealand 1,255,000 1,255,000
Pakistan Al-Noor MDF Board Industries (Rubberwood) Moro, Nawabshah 42,000 42,000
Peshawar Particleboard Industries (MDF & PB) Peshawar 50,000 50,000
Garibsons (Pvt) Ltd. MDF/ HDF Karachi Punjab 100,000 100,000
ZRK Group MDF/HDF/PB Peshawar NWFP 150,000
Total Pakistan 192,000 342,000
Sri Lanka Merbok MDF Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. (2 lines) Horana 180,000 180,000
Total Sri Lanka 180,000 180,000
Thailand Advance Fiber Co Ltd. (Metro MDF) Tamaka 250,000 250,000
Agro Mats Co Ltd. Chachoung-sao 90,000 90,000
Bangsai Fiber Board Co. Ltd. (BFB Thailand Co) Prachin Buri 90,000 90,000
Khon Kaen Sugar (Doorskin Mill) Khon Kaen 25,000 25,000
Kijchai S. Klaeng MDF Co. (Rayong Particle Board Co. Ltd.) Klaeng, Rayong 330,000
Rayong MDF Co Ltd. Amphur Klaeng, Rayong 260,000
Metro MDF Co Ltd. (1 Line) Kanchanburi 200,000 200,000
Metro Fibre Co Ltd. (1 Line) Kanchanburi 250,000 250,000
Metro Fibre Co Ltd. (1 Line) Kanchanburi 350,000 350,000
Metro Fibre Co Ltd. (3 Lines) HDF Kanchanburi 360,000 400,000
Panel Plus MDF Co Ltd.; Mitr Phol Sugar Group MDF/HDF Hat Yai 330,000 330,000
Siam Fibreboard Company Ltd. (ex Evergreen Fibreboard ) 3 Lines Hat Yai 570,000 570,000
Thai Plywood Co. Ltd. Kaeng Khoi, Suraburi 84,000 84,000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Lines 2 Chonburi 300,000 300,000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Surat Thani 350,000 350 000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Surat Thani 200,000 200,000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Saraburi 50,000 50,000
Total Thailand 3,499,000 3,779,000
Taiwan Jia Ding Wood Co. Ltd. Kaohsiung 40,000 40,000
Total Taiwan 40,000 40,000
Vietnam Cosevco Construction Co/ Mien Trung Corp Dong Ha, Quang Tri 60,000 60,000
Geruco MDF Company Dong Ha, Quang Tri 60,000 60,000
Long Viet MDF Tỉnh DakNong 100,000 100,000
May Forestry Joint Stock Company Nghe An, Vinh 240,000
May Forestry Joint Stock Company Nghe An, Vinh 175,000
MDF Thien Son (Binh Phuoc), (VRG DongWha) Binh Phuoc 60,000 300,000
Mien Trung Corporation Cosevco 65,000 65,000
Panel Plus Hat Yai 330,000
Quang Tri MDF Geruco Wood Factory Quang Tri Province 80,000 80,000
Tay Bac/Yen Bai Joint stock Co. Ltd. Yen Bai province 100,000 100,000
Thanh Nam Construction and Trade Co.Ltd. Hanoi 80,000
Thien Nam Phuong Co, Ltd. MDF/HDF Hoa Binh 55,000 150,000
Timbee MDF (Kim Tin Group) Asean 200,000 300,000
Vietnam Rubber Group (linked to DongWha Minh Hung) Quang Tri Province 50,000 50,000
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VRG DongWha MDF (JSC) & Vietnam Rubber Group MDF/HDF Minh Hung 60,000 360,000
Viforex (Ha Giang Industry and Forestry Export JSC) Vi Xuyen 100,000
Vinafor (Vietnam Forest Corp) ex Thai Nguyen Particle Board Co and MDF Gia Lai merged 2011 Gia Lai, Hoa Binh 115,000 115,000
Vino Eca Board Company Long An 260,000
Total Vietnam 1,005,000 2,925,000
TOTAL ASIA-PACIFIC EXCLUDING CHINA 15,448,000 18,064,000
FIBREBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: EUROPE
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Austria M. Kaindl Holzindustrie (P&M Kaindl) Salzburg 400,000 400,000
MDF Hallein (Binder) closed 03-2014 Hallein 300,000
Total Austria 700,000 400,000
Belarus Borisovdrev OAO (Bellesbumprom Group ‘Belarus’) Borisov 65,000 65,000
Gomeldrev JCS (MDF/HDF) Belarus 170,000
Kronospan Holdings East Ltd. (P&M Kaindl) Smarhoỉ, Grodno 300,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Kazanlak 360,000
Mostovdrev JSC (MDF/HDF) Belarus 200,000
Mozyrski DOK State Enterprise (insulation fibreboard) Mozyr 140,000
Vitebskdref JCS (MDF/HDF) Belarus 140,000
VMG Industries Ltd. Mogilev 160,000 160,000
Total Belarus 225,000 1,535,000
Belgium Spanolux (acquired by Sofinim) Vielsalm 270,000 270,000
Total Belgium 270,000 270,000
Czech Republic DDL Dỉevozpracující družstvo Lukavec 95,000 95,000
Total Czech Republic 95,000 95,000
Estonia Skano Group AS Pärnu 70,000
Püssi Fibreboard (ex MTK Holding) Püssi 70,000
Total Estonia 140,000
France Isoroy (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Le Creusot--Montchanin 160,000 160,000
Isoroy (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Ussel 190,000 190,000
Mediland (Finsa Spain) Morcenx 160,000 160,000
Unilin S.A.S. (Mohawk Industries) Bazeilles 600,000 600,000
Total France 1,110,000 1,110,000
Germany Egger (Fritz GmbH) Bevern 90,000 90,000
Egger (Fritz GmbH) Brilon 250,000 250,000
Egger (Fritz GmbH) Wismar 400,000 400,000
FBB Baruth (Classen Group -Sonae ) Baruth 570,000 570,000
Glunz (Sonae Indústria (l- JV with Tarkett) Eiweiler 220,000 220,000
Glunz (Sonae Indústria Closed 1 line Meppen 300,000 300,000
Hornitex (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Beeskow 350,000 350,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Homann Holzwerkstoffe (Homanit) MDF/HDF Losheim 200,000 200,000
Kronospan (P & M Kaindl) Steinheim-Sandebeck 150,000 150,000
Kronospan (P & M Kaindl) Lampertswalde 600,000 600,000
Kronotex GmbH & Co KG (E. Kaindl, Swiss Krono Group) Heiligengrabe 490,000 490,000
Pfleiderer GmbH (ex Kunz) Gschwend 250,000 250,000
Pfleiderer GmbH (ex Kunz) Ebersdorf 500,000 500,000
Pfleiderer (ex Classen Group) Baruth 450,000 450,000
Total Germany 4,820,000 4,820,000
Greece Alfa Wood Pindos (ex Pindos SA state-owned) Grevena 120,000 120,000
Total Greece 120,000 120,000
Hungary Kronospan-Mofa (P & M Kaindl) Mohacs 200,000 200,000
Total Hungary 200,000 200,000
Ireland, Rep. Medite Europe Ltd. (Coillte Panel Products Div) Redmonstown, Clonmel 480,000 480,000
Total Ireland, Rep. of 480,000 480,000
Italy Bipan (Gruppo Frati) Bicinicco 370,000 370,000
Fantoni SpA Osoppo 760,000 760,000
Novolegno (Fantoni SpA) Avellino 220,000 220,000
Nuova Rivart (Mauro Saviola) Radicofani 100,000 100,000
Total Italy 1,450,000 1,450,000
Luxembourg Kronospan (P & M Kaindl) Sanem 275,000 275,000
Total Luxembourg 275,000 275,000
Poland Homann Holzwerkstoffe GmbH (Homanit) Karlino 250,000 250,000
Homann Holzwerkstoffe GmbH (Homanit) Krosno, Oder
Kronowood (P & M Kaindl) Mielec 180,000 180,000
Polspan (P & M Kaindl) Szczecinek 760,000 760,000
Kronopol Sp Zoo (E. Kaindl Swiss Krono Group) Zary 218,000 218,000
Pfleiderer Ltd. Grajewo 250,000 250,000
Swedspan International s. r. o. (IKEA) UT-HDF Orla Bielsk Podlaski 310,000 310,000
Total Poland 1,968,000 1,968,000
Portugal Casca (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Mangualde 360,000 360,000
Valbopan Nazare 44,000 44,000
Luso Finsa (Finsa, Spain) Nelas 140,000 140,000
Total Portugal 544,000 544,000
Romania Kronospan Sebes S.A. (P&M Kaindl) Sebes, Jud Alba 368,000 368,000
Prolemn S.C, SA (Kastamonu Entegre Group) Reghin, Jud. Mureỉ Mures 420,000 420,000
United Panel Group Zeshart, Komi 130,000 130,000
Vitebskdrev JSC Belarus 350,000 350,000
YUG Krasnodar 54,000 54,000
Total Romania 1,322,000 1,322,000
Russian Rep. Abinsk Zavod MDF OOO Abinsk 150,000 150,000
Altayles Kamenskiy LDK Altay 250,000
Apsheronsk ZAO PDK MDF/HDF Krasnodar 300,000 300,000
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Art-Progress Kiev Korosten 250,000 250,000
Bobruisk Fiberboard Factory MDF HDF Belarus 100,000 100,000
Borisovdrev OAO Borisov 240,000 240,000
Dallesprom (RFP Group) Amur 300,000 300,000
Gomeldrev OJSC Gomel, Belorussia 180,000 180,000
Igorevskiy Woodworking Plant Smolensk 400,000
IKEA (ex Pfleiderer MDF OOO Novgorod 500,000 500,000
Inter-Drev Tver
Kastamonu Integrated Wood Industry SEZ Alabuga, Tatarstan 565,000
Kiew Fanernij Zavod Kiev 44,000 44,000
Kraslesinvest Krasnoyarsk
Kronospan (P & M Kaindl) Egorievsk 400,000 400,000
Lesplitinvest JSC Priozersk, Leningrad 100,000 100,000
MDF Mortka Mortka, Kondinski 100,000 100,000
Mostovdrev OAO Belarus 200,000 400,000
Novaja Vjatka Kirov 60,000 60,000
Novovyatskiy Ski ỉJSC Ski Industrial Center 75,000 75,000
Partner-Tomsk LPK Tomsk 260,000 260,000
Partner-Tomsk LPK Tomsk 275,000 275,000
Pechora MDF Ltd. Pechora, Republic of Komi 65,000
Plitspichprom (Souz) Balabanovo 54,000 54,000
Plitspichprom JSC Krasnoyarsk 80,000 80,000
Promstroibank, Spb Saint-Petersburg 100,000 100,000
Rimbunan Hijau (RH Group) MDF/THDF (Malaysian multi business) Khabarovsk Krai 180,000 180,000
Russky Laminat Ltd. Sergiev Posad 395,000 395,000
Saw Mill ỉJSC Tyndales 65,000 65,000
SchKDP OOO Scheksna, Wologda 108,000
Sharyaplit Kronostar (E. Kaindl) Scharija 430,000 430,000
Sheksninsky KDP Sheksna 50,000 50,000
SibDSM Irkutsk 250,000 250,000
TyndaLes Tynda 44,000 44,000
United Panel Group Himki 120,000 120,000
Zheshart Plywood Plant, JSC Komi 130,000 130,000
Total Russia 5,432,000 7,020,000
Slovenia Lesonit (Fantoni, Italy) Ilirska Bistrica 250,000 250,000
Total Slovenia 250,000 250,000
Spain Fibranor (Finsa) Rábade 302,000 302,000
Finsa (Finsa) Padrón 295,000 295,000
Orember (Finsa) Orense 205,000 205,000
Interpanel (Tablicia) Villabrazaro, Benavente 250,000 250,000
Intasa – Industrias del Tablero San Saturniño 195,000 195,000
Unopan (Interbon) (Kronospan, P&M Kaindl ex liquidation 2012) Burgos 250,000 250,000
Tafisa (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Valladolid 140,000 140,000
Total Spain 1,637,000 1,637,000
Sweden Karlit AB Karlholmsbruk 105,000 105,000
Total Sweden 105,000 105,000
Switzerland Kronoswiss (E. Kaindl, Swiss Krono Group) MDF/HDF Menznau, Lucerne 270,000 270,000
Total Switzerland 270,000 270,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Turkey AGT Wood Industry Antalya 500,000
Çamsan Poyraz Lines 3 Ordu 350,000 350,000
Çamsan Entegre Agac Lines 2 Hendek-Sakarya/Adapazari 780,000 780,000
Divapan Entegre Yigilca Yolu 120,000 120,000
Gentas Group Bolu 28,800 28,800
Kastamonu Entegre Group Gebze 370,000 370,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Kastamonu 360,000 360,000
Kastamonu Integrated Forest Ind (Kastamonu Entegre Group) MDF/HDF Adana 420,000 420,000
Serdar Aỉaç Kaplama Sanayi A.ỉ. Inegöl 120,000 300,000
SFC Entegre Orman A S (Kronospan P&M Kaindl) Kastamonu 500,000 500,000
Starwood Orman Ürünleri San A.S Inegol Bursa 1,000,000 1,000,000
Teverpan Agac Sanayii A S (several lines) Çerkezköy 790,000 790,000
Tever MDF Levha Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (MDF) Çerkezköy 165,000 165,000
Tever MDF Levha Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (HDF) Çerkezköy 120,000 120,000
Turanlar A S THDF Vezirköprü 240,000 240,000
Vezirkopru Orman Urunleri urun-ve-kagit Samsun 250,000 250,000
Yildiz Entegre Tarsus Mersin 540,000
Yildiz Entegre (Kimya) Lines 3 Kocaeli 1,200,000 1,200,000
Yildiz Sunta MDF A S Izmit 450,000 450,000
Total Turkey 6,843,800 8,483,800
Ukraine Korosten MDF Koresten 250,000 250,000
Total Ukraine 250,000 250,000
UK Norbord Inc., Canada Cowie, Stirlingshire 330,000 330,000
Kronospan (P & M Kaindl) Chirk, Wales 540,000 540,000
Total UK 870,000 870,000
TOTAL EUROPE 29,656,800 33,614,800
TOTAL ASIA-PACIFIC 15,448,000 18,064,000
TOTAL N. AMERICA 6,945,000 7,793,000
TOTAL S. AMERICA 7,834,000 10,058,000
TOTAL MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA 1,933,000 1,933,000
TOTAL WORLDWIDE [EX CHINA] 61,816,800 71,462,800
TOTAL CHINA 53,812,000 53,882,000
TOTAL WORLD 115,628,800 125,344,800
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PARTICLEBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: NORTH AMERICA
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Canada Flakeboard (Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion SA, Chile) St Stephen NB 200,000 200,000
Uniboard Canada Inc - Arauco (ex Kaycan Ltd. ex Pfleiderer ex Kunz) Sayabec 400,000 400,000
Uniboard Canada Inc - Arauco (ex Kaycan Ltd. ex Pfleiderer ex Kunz) Sayabec 380,000 380,000
Uniboard Canada Inc - Arauco (ex Kaycan Ltd. ex Pfleiderer ex Kunz) Val d’Or 450,000 450,000
Northern Engineered Wood Products Inc (NEWPRO) Wanham 80,000 80,000
Columbia Forest Products Hearst 160,000 160,000
DeFehr Furniture Logic Div. Ex Palliser Furniture (restructure 2013) Winnipeg MA 60,000 60,000
Panolam Industries International Inc., Huntsville ON 230,000 230,000
Sonae Tafisa Lac-Mégantic, Quebec 950,000 950,000
Total Canada 2,910,000 2,910,000
Mexico Bajaplay SA Group Tijuana 65,000 65,000
Duraplay Inc Parral Chihuahua 138,000 138,000
Industrias Emman SA Ocotlan 80,000 80,000
Masisa Durango Durango 155,000 155,000
Rexcel SA (Masisa/Grupo Nueva ex Kuo Group mid 2013) Zitacuaro 210,000 210,000
Rexcel S.A. de C.V Maderas y Sintéticos de México S.A. de C.V. (ex Grupo Kuo) Chihuahua 250,000 250,000
Maderas Conglomeradas (Macosa) San Juan 100,000 100,000
Total Mexico 998,000 998,000
USA Arcadia Board Co. New Iberia CA 100,000 100,000
Aconcagua ATC (ex Arauco Chile) Franklin VA 230,000 230,000
Aconcagua ATC (ex Arauco Chile) Bennetsville SC 470,000 470,000
Aconcagua ATC (ex Arauco Chile) Moncure NC 250,000 250,000
Arauco Panels USA; ex Uniboard USA LLC, subs Pfleiderer in 2012; ex ATC Panels Moncure, NC 280,000 280,000
Flakeboard America Ltd. (Arauco Chile bgt 2012; ex-Weyerhaeuser) Albany OR 427,000 427,000
Ampine Particleboard (SierraPine) (Jan 2014 bgt by Flakeboard) Martell CA 375,000 375,000
AgraFibre Industries Inc Wanham 160,000 160,000
Agristrand Mankato, LLC. Minnesota 145,000 145,000
Ankmar Door LLC (ex Cladwood) Sweet Home OR 30,000 30,000
Boise Cascade LLC La Grande OR 150,000 150,000
Boise Cascade LLC La Grande OR 230,000 230,000
Collins Products LLC Klamath Falls OR 235,000 235,000
Environ Biocomposites LLC Mankato MU 90,000 90,000
Florida Plywoods Inc Greenville FLA 30,000 30,000
Florida Plywoods Inc Greenville FLA 60,000 60,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Hambro Forest Products (Liquidated 2012) Lenoir NC 60,000 60,000
Hambro Forest Products (Liquidated 2012) Crescent City CA 88,000 88,000
Hambro Forest Products (Liquidated 2012) Arcata CA 75,000 75,000
Isobord Enterprises Inc Elie, Manitoba 150,000 150,000
Marshfield Door Systems (Masonite acq 2011, ex Wind Point pr ivate equity, ex Weyerhaeuser 2000) Marshfield WI 150,000 150,000
Masonite Prime Board Inc (ex Prime Board Inc, acq 2005) Wahpeton, North Dakota 100,000 100,000
Merillat Industries LLC (sub of Masco Corp bgt in 1985) Rapid City SD 170,000 170,000
Potlatch Corp Post Falls ID 130,000 130,000
Prime Board Inc 54,000 54,000
Roseburg Forest Products Dillard OR 750,000 750,000
Roseburg Forest Products Missoula MA 340,000 340,000
Roseburg Forest Products Russelville SC 330,000 330,000
Roseburg Forest Products Taylorsville MS 330,000 330,000
Roseburg Forest Products Vienna GA 265,000 265,000
Roseburg Forest Products (ex Flakeboard) (Idled in 2011) Simsboro LA 490,000 490,000
Roseburg Forest Products (ex Georgia Pacific) Louisville MS 280,000 280,000
Roseburg Forest Products (ex Sierra Pine (ex Weyerhauser) bgt 2011 Adel GA 255,000 255,000
Temple-Inland (Georgia-Pacific was bought 2013) Monroeville AL 250,000 250,000
Temple-Inland (Georgia-Pacific was bought 2013) Thomson GA 250,000 250,000
Temple-Inland (Georgia-Pacific was bought 2013) Diboll TX 250,000 250,000
Temple-Inland (Georgia-Pacific was bought 2013) Hope AR 380,000 380,000
Timber Products Company Medford OR 160,000 160,000
Total USA 7,856,000 7,856,000
TOTAL NORTH AMERICA 11,764,000 11,764,000
PARTICLEBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: SOUTH AMERICA
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Argentina Puerto Piray 300,000 300,000
Cuyoplacas SA Las Heras Mendoza 100,000 100,000
Cuyoplacas SA (closed 2011) General Lavalle 360,000 360,000
Cellulosa Arauco SA (Faplac) Zarate 270,000 270,000
Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Concordia, Entre Rios 140,000 140,000
Masisa (Grupo Nueva) Concordia, Entre Rios 25,000 25,000
Sadepan Latinoamericana (Mauro Saviola Group) Conception del Uraguay 120,000 120,000
Tableros del Parana SA Fighiera 30,000 30,000
Madindesa Campana Campana 30,000 30,000
Total Argentina 1,015,000 1,015,000
Brazil Placas do Parana (Celulosa Arauco Constitucion SA) Curitiba 250,000 250,000
Placas do Parana ex Tafisa Brasil SA sub Sonae Indústria 2009 Pièn, Paraná 270,000 270,000
Berneck Aglomerados Araucária, Paraná 600,000 600,000
Bonet Madeiras e Papeis LDPB Santa Catarina 30,000 30,000
Duratex SA (ex Satipel Industrial ) Itapetininga, Sao Paulo 500,000 500,000
Duratex SA (ex Satipel Industrial ) Botucatu, Sao Paulo 440,000 440,000
Duratex SA (ex Satipel Industrial ) Taquari 200,000 200,000
Eucatex MDF Botucatu, Sao Paulo 440,000 440,000
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Fibraplac Paineis Maderia SA (Isdralit Group) Glorinha, RS 500,000 500,000
Masisa do Brasil (Grupo Neuva) Montenegro 650,000 650,000
Masisa do Brasil (Grupo Neuva) Montenegro 550,000 550,000
Masisa do Brasil (Grupo Neuva) Montenegro 100,000 100,000
Repinho Reflorestadora Madeiras e Compensados Ltd. Guarapuava 100,000 100,000
Satipel Industriel (Formitex) Uberaba 700,000 700,000
Satipel Industriel (Formitex) Taquari 200,000 200,000
Total Brazil 5,530,000 5,530,000
Colombia Pizano SA Barranquilla 18,000 18,000
Pizano SA Barranquilla 65,000 65,000
Tableros Y Maderas de Caldas SA (TABLEMAC) Duratex partner Manizales 38,000 38,000
Tableros Y Maderas de Caldas SA (TABLEMA C) Duratex partner Yarumal 110,000 110,000
Tableros Y Maderas de Caldas SA (TABLEMAC) Duratex partner Barbosa, Antioquia 300,000 300,000
Celdas Y Tablero de Colombia SAS Lines 2 Bogota 110,000 110,000
Total Colombia 641,000 641,000
Chile Arauco (Celulosa) MDP Teno 300,000 300,000
Masisa (Grupo Neuva) Cabrero 280,000 280,000
Masisa (Grupo Neuva) Coronel, Concepción 92,000 92,000
Masisa (Grupo Neuva) Coronel, Concepción 60,000 60,000
Masisa (Grupo Neuva) Chiguayante 89,000 89,000
Masisa (Grupo Neuva) Valdivia 90,000 90,000
Total Chile 911,000 911,000
Cuba Construction Industrial (Lines 4) Havana 260,000 260,000
Total Cuba 260,000 260,000
Costa Rica Durpanel SA San Jose 40,000 40,000
Durpanel SA San Jose 30,000 30,000
Total Costa Rica 70,000 70,000
Ecuador Aglomerados Cotopaxi SA (ACOSA) (Gem Corp) Lasso, Quito 27,000 27,000
Novopan del Ecuador S.A. (Pelikano Group) Guajalo, Quito 300,000 300,000
Total Ecuador 327,000 327,000
TOTAL SOUTH AMERICA 8,754,000 8,754,000
PARTICLEBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY:
South Africa & Middle East
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Rep Of S. Africa Bison PG (KAP Industrial Holdings Ltd. and Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd.) Piet Retief 120,000 120,000
Bison PG (KAP Industrial Holdings Ltd. and Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd.) Stellenbosch 80,000 80,000
Bison PG (KAP Industrial Holdings Ltd. and Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd.) Ugie North Eastern Cape 360,000 360,000
Sonae Novobord, (Sonae Industria) (ex Sappi) White River 280,000 280,000
Sonae Novobord, (Sonae Industria) (ex Sappi) Panbult 150,000 150,000
Total Rep of S. Africa 990,000 990,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Ethiopia Maichew Particleboard 95,000 95,000
Total Ethiopia 95,000 95,000
Tunisia Panoboise SA Hammam Sousse 35,000 35,000
Panofort Soc Tabarka 20,000 20,000
Stibois MDF Grombalia 32,000 32,000
Total Tunisia 87,000 87,000
Iran Shahid Dr. Bahonar Board Gorgan 43,000 43,000
Bistodoe Bahman Behshahr 48,000 48,000
Choubin Nemad Co. Garmsar 155,000 155,000
Neopan Fumanat Fumanat 30,000 30,000
Neopan Khalkhal Khalkhal 40,000 40,000
Neopan Karoun Lines 2 Karoun 115,000 115,000
Neopan MDF, Pars Lines 2 Nashtaroud 160,000 160,000
Neopan Momtaz Golestan Compact Panel Tehran 100,000 100,000
Pouya Choub (TFS) Garmsar S Tehran 155,000 155,000
Pooya Industrial Group Wood Chali, Shergah 360,000 360,000
Rafsanjan Industrial Co.mplex Islamin Co.operative Co. (ASR Neopan) Farvardin 25,000 25,000
Sanate Choob Shomal Gonbad 78,000 78,000
Shamushak Chipboard Producer Co. Gorgan 100,000 100,000
Takhte Feshorde Shamal Sari 130,000 130,000
TFMG Co. 155,000 155,000
Karum Particleboard Limbah Kayu 40,000 40,000
Total Iran 1,734,000 1,734,000
TOTAL South Africa & MIDDLE EAST 2,906,000 2,906,000
PARTICLEBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: ASIA PACIFIC EXCLUDING CHINA
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Australia Carter Holt Harvey Ltd. (3 lines) Mt Gambier 230,000 230,000
Carter Holt Harvey Ltd. Oberon, NSW 120,000 120,000
Carter Holt Harvey Ltd. Tumut 100,000 100,000
D&R Henderson Pty Ltd. Benalla 34,000 34,000
D&R Henderson Pty Ltd. Benalla 34,000 34,000
D&R Henderson Pty Ltd. Benalla 90,000 90,000
Fletcher Wood Panels Ltd. (ex Amatek) Dardanup 160,000 160,000
Fletcher WoodPanels Ltd. (ex Amatek) Kumeu 90,000 90,000
Laminex Group (Fletcher Building Ltd.) Gympie, Qld 110,000 110,000
Tasmanian Wood Wesley Vale 40,000 40,000
Wesfi Ltd. Dardanup 130,000 130,000
Wesfi Ltd. Dardanup 160,000 160,000
Total Australia 1,298,000 1,298,000
Bangladesh Akij Particle & Hard Board Mills Ltd. Torraghat, Manikgonj 25,000 25,000
Star Particle Board Mills Ltd. (Partex Star Group) Lines 2 Narayangonj, Bangladesh 280,000 280,000
Woodland Plywood & Particle Board Mills Ltd. Khulna, Bangladesh 30,000 30,000
Total Bangladesh 335,000 335,000
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India Associate Decor ex Star Panel (JV Associate Group/Kings Wood ) Malur Karnataka 300,000 300,000
Baji Eco-tec Products Ltd. 100,000
Bajai Hindustan Utter Pradesh 60,000 60,000
Best Boards Ltd. Delhi 30,000 30,000
Daulet SSK Halkarni 60,000 60,000
Ecoboard Industries- EIL (former Western Bio Systems Ltd.) Solapur Maharashtra 66,000 66,000
Indian Plywood Manufacturing Co. Bombay 22,000 22,000
Metro Decoratives Pvt Haryana 46000 46000
Mysore Chip Ltd. Mysore 30,000 30,000
Nagpur Chipboards Maharashtra 35000 35000
Neoluxe India Ltd. Mumbai 100,000 100,000
Novopan India Ltd. Shad naga, Hyderabad 54,000 54,000
Perfect Board Sheikupura 90,000 90,000
Patel Kenwood Pvt. Ltd. Ankleshwar, Gujarat 50,000 50,000
Vipul Panel Board Industries Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh 35,000 35,000
Total India 978,000 1,078,000
Indonesia AGP Lampung 30,000 30,000
Barito Pacific (former P T Barito Pacific Timber Tbk) Southeast Sulawesi 54,000 54,000
Batasan PT West Kalimantan 60,000 60,000
Benuah Indah Group Katapang 210,000 210,000
Bumi Raya Itama West Kailmantan 195,000 195,000
Canang Indah PT Medan, North Sumatra 66,000 66,000
Dayak Besar Pontianak W Kalimantan 450,000 450,000
Hutrindo Jaya Fibreboard Sumatra 100,000 100,000
Industri Badja Garuda Medan, N Sumatra 60,000 60,000
Intan Andalas Wood Industry PT Tebing Tinggi Kisaran 36,000 36,000
Khatulistiwa Indah Wood Industri PT West Kalimantan 180,000 180,000
Khatulistiwa Indah Wood Industri PT West Kalimantan 132,000 132,000
Kutai Timber (KTI) (JV Sumitoto Forestry & PT Kaltimex Jaya, Ind) Probolinggo, East Jawa 150,000 150,000
Rimba Particle Indonesia ‘RPI’ (Sumitomo Forestry & PT Kaltimex Jaya, Ind) Semarang Jarva 150,000 150,000
Limbah Kayu Utama Lindner 200,000 200,000
Limbah Raya Limbah 90,000 90,000
Mangole Timber Products PT (PT Tunggal Agathis Indah Wood Industries) S Kalamantan 60,000 60,000
Nusa Prima PratamaIndustry Jawa Timur 30,000 30,000
Parindo Permai Ltd. Lampung 53,000 53,000
Parindo Permai Ltd. Lampung 100,000 100,000
Perawang Lumber Ltd. Sumatra 90,000 90,000
Total Indonesia 2,496,000 2,496,000
Japan Daishowa Iwanuma 180,000 180,000
Dantani Corporation Wakamatsu 180,000 180,000
Eidai Co.Ltd. Fukui 100,000 100,000
Eidai Co.Ltd. Yamaguchi 100,000 100,000
Iwakura Corporation Tomakomai 90,000 90,000
Japan Novopan Industrial Sakai 190,000 190,000
Japan Novopan Industrial Tsukuba 170,000 170,000
Mai Board Gunma 60,000 60,000
Miyako Board Kogyo K.K.. Kogyo K.K 50,000 50,000
Okura Industrial Co.Ltd. Kagawa 125,000 125,000
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Okura Industrial Co.Ltd. Kagawa 340,000 340,000
Onahama Plywood Fukushima 100,000 100,000
Seihoku Veneer Group Ishinomaki 100,000 100,000
Seihoku Veneer Group Akita 60,000 60,000
Seihoku Veneer Group Tokyo 130,000 130,000
Seihoku Veneer Group Miyako 60,000 60,000
Shin Akimoku Kogyo K.K Akita 70,000 70,000
Tohbec Co.Ltd. Osaka 60,000 60,000
Tohoku Homoboard Ltd. Yamagata 75,000 75,000
Tokyo Board Ind Co.Ltd. Shinkiba 112,000 112,000
Total Japan 2,352,000 2,352,000
Korea, Rep Dongwha Enterprise Co. Inchon 430,000 430,000
Kwangwon Lumber Co.Ltd. Inchon 100,000 100,000
Kwangwon Lumber Co.Ltd. Inchon 100,000 100,000
Sung Chang Corp Ulsan 280,000 280,000
Taesung Wood Industry Corp Inchon 275,000 275,000
Total Korea Rep 1,185,000 1,185,000
Malaysia Allgreen Timber Products Sdn Bhd (ex Evergreen Decor) Segamat, Johor 120,000 120,000
CGC Wood Ind Merlimau 110,000 110,000
HeveaBoard Bhd Gemas 120,000 120,000
HeveaBoard Bhd Gemas 410,000 410,000
ISOTOP Corp Sdn (ex Muar Hardboards Sdn) Muar, Johor 40,000 40,000
Jayakuik Sdn. Bhd Sabah 76,000 76,000
Merbok MDF Sdn (Merbok Hilir Group) Lines 2 Sg. Petani 250,000 250,000
Merbok MDF Sdn (Merbok Hilir Group) Lines 2 Takeuchi 100,000 100,000
Mieco Chipboard Bhd Gebeng 255000 255000
Mieco Chipboard Bhd Semambu 85,000 85,000
Mieco Chipboard Bhd (Bandar Raya Developments Kechau Tui Pahang 600,000 600,000
Millplex Particleboard (& San Mic Chiyoda Japan) Bukit Selambu, Kedah 110,000 110,000
NLS Sdn Bhd Peninsular 40,000 40,000
Pahanco Manufacturing Sdn (Panhanco Corp Berhad) Lines 3 Kuantan 120,000 120,000
Petani Particleboard Sdn Pahang 50,000 50,000
Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Group Sibu, Sarawak 120,000 120,000
Segamat Panel Boards Sdn Bhd Segamat 200,000 200,000
Sinora Particleboard Sdn (Samling) Sandakan 60,000 60,000
Subur Tiasa Particleboard Sdn Bhd Sibu 120,000 120,000
Tian Siang Sitiawan 100,000 100,000
Total Malaysia 3,086,000 3,086,000
New Zealand Carter Holt Harvey Kopu 30,000 30,000
Fletcher Wood Panels Kemeu 90,000 90,000
Fletcher Wood Panels Taupo 50,000 50,000
Juken New Zealand, Japan (former Juken Nissho Gisborne) Masterton 85,000 85,000
Juken New Zealand, Japan (former Juken Nissho Gisborne) Gisborne 85,000 85,000
Total New Zealand 340,000 340,000
Pakistan Compact Particle Board Pvt Ltd. Lahore 50,000 50,000
Crescent Boards Peshawar 45,000 45,000
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Garibsons Pvt Ltd. Karachi, Punjab 40,000 40,000
Gohar Chipboard Rawalpindi 30,000 30,000
Islamabad Particleboard Rawalpindi 30,000 30,000
Khyber Wood Prod Co. Rawalpindi 80,000 80,000
National Paticleboard Karachi 30,000 30,000
Pakistan Chipboards Pvt Ltd. Jhelum, Punjab 80,000 80,000
Pakistan Superwood Industries Pvt Ltd. Karachi 33,000 33,000
Pakitex Board Pvt Ltd. Lines 5 Karachi, Sindh 130,000 130,000
Perfect Board Pvt Ltd. Sheikupura 100,000 100,000
Peshawar Particleboard Industries Pvt Ltd. Peshawar 50,000 50,000
Ravi Chipboard Pvt Ltd. Peshawar 40,000 40,000
Sadaat Particle Board Pvt Kharalanwala 30,000 30,000
Sadaat Particle Board Pvt Lahore 30,000 30,000
Sind Particleboard Mills Pvt Ltd. (Amin Bawany Group) Distt Jamshoro 60,000 60,000
Sunlight Wood Products (3 lines) Karachi 140,000 140,000
Wood Board Ind former Bombay Plywood Industries Rawalpindi 50,000 50,000
ZRK Group Peshawar NWFP 150,000 150,000
Total Pakistan 1,198,000 1,198,000
Sri Lanka Oktjabrski Kombinat Pvt Ltd. Samarkand 66,000 66,000
Total Sri Lanka 66,000 66,000
Swaziland NHR Investments 55,000 55,000
Total Swaziland 55,000 55,000
Thailand Asia Panel Co.Ltd. (KOK Huad Group) Petchburi Province 53,000 53,000
Asia Panel Co.Ltd. (KOK Huad Group) Petchburi Province 60,000 60,000
Green River Panels (Thailand) Co.Ltd. Petchbury 200,000 200,000
Green River Panels (Thailand) Co.Ltd. Petchbury 360,000 360,000
Kijchai S. MDF Co.Ltd. Klaeng 100,000 100,000
Metro Ply Co.Ltd. Sainoi, Nonthaburi 380,000 380,000
Metro Ply Co.Ltd. Bangkok 420,000 420,000
Metro Particle Co.Ltd. Lines 2 Sai Noi, Nonthaburi 900,000 900,000
Molar Wood Products Co.Ltd. Line 1 Samut Sakon 90,000 90,000
Molar Wood Products Co.Ltd. Line 2 Petchburi 250,000 250,000
Panel Plus Co Ltd. Mitr Phol Sugar Group (ex STA) Hat Yai 140,000 140,000
Panel Plus Co Ltd. Mitr Phol Sugar Group (ex STA) Songkla 300,000 300,000
Phang Nga Parawood Ind Phuket 200,000 200,000
Phang Nga Parawood Ind Phuket 75,000 75,000
Plywood Laminate Co Ltd. Bangkok 50,000 50,000
Plywood Laminate Co Ltd. Bangkok 90,000 90,000
Rayong Panel Co Ltd. Amphur Klaeng, Rayong 324,000 324,000
Sahachai Particleboard Co. Ltd. Nonthaburi 150,000 150,000
Sahachai Particleboard Co. Ltd. Nonthaburi 360,000 360,000
Siam Particle Products Surat Thani 170,000 170,000
Siam Riso Wood Products Surat Thani 120,000 120,000
Sumitomo Forestry Co Ltd. Phu An Thanh 260,000 260,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Thai Chipboard Co Ltd. Samut Sakhon 50,000 50,000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Surat T hani 450,000 450,000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Surat Thani 350,000 350,000
Particle Planner Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Chon Buri 180,000 180,000
Vanachai Panel Industries Co (Vanachai Group Public Co Ltd.) Sara Buri 235000 235000
Victory Plywood Industrial Choolai 60,000 60,000
Wang Kanai Group Lop Buri 102,000 102,000
Total Thailand 6,479,000 6,479,000
Vietnam Vina Eco Board Company Ltd. ‘VECO’ (Sumitomo Forestry Group) Phu An Thanh 250,000 250,000
Soosung Co.Ltd. Gyeonggi-do 70,000 70,000
Truong Thanh Furniture Corp Thanh 30,000 30,000
Total Vietnam 350,000 350,000
TOTAL ASIA-PACIFIC excluding China 20,218,000 20,318,000
PARTICLEBOARD ACHIEVABLE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: EUROPE
Country Company/Group Location 2013-2014 2014-2015
Austria Egger (Fritz GmbH) St Pölten 600,000 600,000
Egger (Fritz GmbH) St Johann Tirol 420,000 420,000
Egger (Fritz GmbH) Worgl 140,000 140,000
Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) (ex Funder Max) Neudörfl 120,000 120,000
Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) (ex Funder Max) Neudörfl 255,000 255,000
Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) (ex Funder Max) Neudörfl 185,000 185,000
M. Kaindl Holzindustrie (P&M Kaindl) Wals 450,000 450,000
Novopan Österr. Holzindustrie GmbH Leoben 200,000 200,000
Total Austria 2,370,000 2,370,000
Belgium Linopan Wielsbeke 250,000 250,000
Spano Group Oostrozebeke 210,000 210,000
Spano Group Oostrozebeke 220,000 220,000
Spano Group Oostrozebeke 270,000 270,000
Unilin S.A.S. (Mohawk Industries) Wielsbeke/Ooigem 600,000 600,000
Unilin S.A.S. (Mohawk Industries) Wielsbeke/Ooigem 300,000 300,000
Unilin S.A.S. (Mohawk Industries) (closed Sept 2013) Wielsbeke/Ooigem 200,000
Total Belgium 2,050,000 1,850,000
Belarus VMG Industries Ltd. (Vakarỉ Medienos Grupỉ) Mogilev 160,000 160,000
Rechicadrev OJSC Rechica 200,000
Kronospan Holdings East Ltd. (P&M Kaindl) Smarhoỉ 600,000
Total Belarus 160,000 960,000
Bulgaria Kastomonu Entegre Group (Hayat Holding Binasi Group) Gabrovnitska 190,000 190,000
Total Bulgaria 190,000 190,000
Croatia Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) (ex Iverica) Bjelovar 110,000 110,000
Total Croatia 110,000 110,000
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Czech Republic Dỉevozpracující družstvo - DDL Lukavec 154,000 154,000
Kronospan CR (P&M Kaindl) Jihlava 600,000 600,000
Grena AS Veseli nad Luznia 100,000 100,000
Total Czech Republic 854,000 854,000
Denmark Novopan Traeindustri AS Pindstrup 350,000 350,000
Total Denmark 350,000 350,000
Estonia AS Repo Vabrikud (Sorbes Group) Pusi 230,000 230,000
Parnu Plaaditehas AS Parnu 55,000 55,000
Total Estonia 285,000 285,000
Finland Koskisen Oy Jarvela 200,000 200,000
Puhos Board Puhos 350,000 350,000
Total Finland 550,000 550,000
France Armor Panneaux La Chapelle Caro 95,000 95,000
Belipa SA Ecommoy 115,000 115,000
Compagnie Francaise du Panneau (CFP) Saint Loup sur Sermouse 400,000 400,000
Depalor SAS (Krono-Gruppe Schweiz ) fire closed plant 07-2013 Phalsbourg 350,000
De Sutter Freres Bacqueville en Caux 50,000 50,000
Egger Panneaux et Décors (Fritz GmbH) Rambervillers 600,000 600,000
Egger Panneaux et Décors (Fritz GmbH) Rion des Landes 500,000 500,000
Fontex Panneaux Lezoux 100,000 100,000
Kronospan (ex Homatherm GmbH (ex Isoroy SAS/Sonae Industria) Auxerre 220,000 220,000
Interbois SA Chantonnay 250,000 250,000
Kronofrance SAS (Swiss Krono Group) Sully-sur-Loire 100,000 100,000
Kronofrance SAS (Swiss Krono Group) Sully-sur-Loire 100,000 100,000
Kronofrance SAS (Swiss Krono Group) Sully-sur-Loire 360,000 360,000
Linex Panneaux Yvetot 560,000 560,000
Seripanneaux St Vincent de Tyrosse 66,000 66,000
Sonae Indústria (Portugal) Linxe 450,000 450,000
Swedspan Holding BV/IKEA Industry ex Isoroy, Sonae Indústria) Lure 450,000 450,000
Isoroy (Sonae Indústria (Portugal) Auxerre 160,000 160,000
Total France 4,926,000 4,576,000
Germany Egger Holtzstoffe (Fritz GmbH) Brilon 350,000 350,000
Kronospan GmbH (P&M Kaindl) Bischweier 800,000 800,000
Kronospan GmbH (P&M Kaindl) Sandebeck 460,000 460,000
Nolte Group Gernersheim 450,000 450,000
Pfleiderer GmbH (ex Kunz) Morbach 90,000 90,000
Pfleiderer GmbH Rheda 350,000 350,000
Pfleiderer GmbH Gutersloh 520,000 520,000
Pfleiderer GmbH Neumarkt 300,000 300,000
Pfleiderer GmbH Leutkirch 350,000 350,000
Rauch Spanplattenwerk GmbH Markt Bibart 500,000 500,000
Sauerlander Spanplatten GmbH Arnsberg 120,000 120,000
Sauerlander Spanplatten GmbH Gotha 180,000 180,000
Sonae (ex Glunz) Nettgau 550,000 550,000
Sonae (ex Glunz) Kaisersesch 335,000 335,000
Sonae (ex Hornitex) Beeskow 260,000 260,000
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MDF YEARBOOK 2014/15
Sonae (ex Hornitex) (ceased output 09 2013) Horn-Bad 340,000
Sonae (ex Hornitex) Duisberg 530,000 530,000
Wilhelm Mende Osterode 250,000 250,000
Wilhelmi Werke AG Lahnau 50,000 50,000
Total Germany 6,785,000 6,105,000
Greece Akritas SA Alexandroupolis 270,000 270,000
Shelman (Owned by Alfa Wood SA) line 1 Komotini 360,000 360,000
Shelman Lines 4 Chalkis 220,000 220,000
Total Greece 850,000 850,000
Hungary Falco Zrt (Kronospan P&M Kaindl) Szombathely 450,000 450,000
Total Hungary 450,000 450,000
Italy Frati Luigi SpA Lines 2 Pomponesco, Mantua 800,000 800,000
Fantoni SpA Lines 5 Osoppo 420,000 420,000
Grupo Trombini (Bankrupt July 2013 ceased trading) Pomposa 432,000
IBL S.p.A Casale Monferrato 40,000 40,000
Invernizzi SpA Gussola 90,000 90,000
Mauro Saviola Srl (Saviola Holding) Lombardia Mantua 600,000 600,000
Montanari SpA Villarotta 70,000 70,000
Saib SpA Fossadello 530,000 530,000
Sama Srl Sustinente 450,000 450,000
Sia Bolderỉja Ltd. Viadana 250,000 250,000
Sipav di Gioda & C. Srl Vinovo 200,000 200,000
Xilopan SpA Cigognola, Pavia 180,000 180,000
Total Italy 4,062,000 3,630,000
Latvia Sia Bolderaja Ltd. (Kronospan P&M Kaindl) ex Baltijos Baldu Riga 320,000 320,000
Total Lativa 320,000 320,000
Lithuania Klaipedos Mediena AB (Vakarỉ Medienos Grupỉ ‘VMG’) Klaipeda 130,000 130,000
Giriu Bizonas UAB (IKEA bought from VMG 2009) Kazlu Roda 467,000 467,000
Total Lithuana 597,000 597,000
Norway Arbor-Hattfjelldal A/S Hattfjelldal 60,000 60,000
Forestia (Byggma ASA) Braskereidfoss 300,000 300,000
Forestia (Byggma ASA) Kvam 50,000 50,000
Troms Treforedling A/S Sorreisa 50,000 50,000
Total Norway 460,000 460,000
Poland Kronopol Sp ZOO (Swiss Krono Group) Zary 100,000 100,000
Kronopol Sp ZOO (Swiss Krono Group) Mielec 620,000 620,000
Lenwitt Fornir Sp ZOO Witaszyce 100,000 100,000
Polspan Sp ZOO (Kronospan P&M Kaindl) Szczecinek 500,000 500,000
ZPW Grajewo S.A. Czarnkow 230,000 230,000
Pfleiderer GmbH Grajewo 600,000 600,000
Pfleiderer Prospan GmbH Wieruszov 650,000 650,000
Total Poland 2,800,000 2,800,000
Portugal Casca (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Oliveira de Hospital 410,000 410,000
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Finsa (Spain) Nelas 200,000 200,000
Finsa (Spain) Perafita-Matosinhos 105,000 105,000
Indústrias Jomar - Madeiras e Derivados, S.A. (Finsa Spain) Matosinhos 400,000 400,000
Total Portugal 1,115,000 1,115,000
Romania S C Kastamonu Romania SA (Hayat Holding Binasi Group) Reghin 560,000 560,000
Kronospan Sebes SA (P&M Kaindle) Sebes, Jud Alba 800,000 800,000
SC Egger România SRL (Fritz GmbH) Radauti 600,000 600,000
Total Romania 1,960,000 1,960,000
Russia Altai-forest LLC Talmenskiy, Altai 230,000 230,000
Altayles (Rubtsovskiy LDK) Altai 250,000
Arkaim LLC JV Khabarovsk 140,000 140,000
Arkaim LLC JV Vanino 150,000 150,000
AVIC, China Tomsk 200,000
Cherepovetsky FMK ZAO Cherepovets 140,000 140,000
ChFMK ZAO (Cherepovets Plywood & Furniture Mill Ltd.) Cherepovets 208,000 208,000
DOK-PLIT OOO Moskva 79,000 79,000
DSP DOK OAK Krasny Oktyabr 99,000 99,000
Dyatkovo Woodworking DOZ Bryansk 124,000 124,000
Egger Drevprodukt Gagarin (Fritz GmbH) Gargarin, Smolensky 520,000 520,000
Egger Drevprodukt OOO (Fritz GmbH) Shuya, Ivanovo 250,000 250,000
Elektrogorskmekel Elektrogorsk 260,000 260,000
Experimantal Particleboard Mill JSC Tyumen 380,000 380,000
Experimental Particleboard Plant Sergiev Posad 129,000 129,000
Fanplit OAO (SVEZA Holding) Kostroma 100,000 100,000
Furniture Plant Shatura ỉJSC Shatura 175,000 175,000
Gagarinsky fanerny zavod (Syktyvkarsky) Smolensk 500,000 500,000
IKEA (ex Pfleiderer) Novgorod 500,000 500,000
Interwood Invest AG Irkutsk 180,000
Intrast OOO Serova Kostroma 114,000 114,000
Karelia DSP JSC Karelia 127,000 127,000
Katyusha OOO Bryansk 240,000 240,000
Katyusha OOO Bryansk 140,000 140,000
Krasnoyarsk Wood Processing Plant Krasnoyarsk 72,000 72,000
Krasnyi Oktjabr plc Tyumen 100,000 100,000
Kronolvilv OOO Osmoloda 400,000 400,000
Kronospan Bashkortostan LLC (Kronospan Holdings East Ltd. Cyprus.) 500k plant planned Egoryevsk, Moscow
Kronotec-Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) Egorievsk, Moscow 750,000 750,000
Kronostar OOO (Swiss Krono Group) Scharija, Kostroma 540,000 540,000
Minusinsky Les LLC Krasnoyarsk 275,000 275,000
Monzenskiy DOK OOO Vohtoga 127,000 127,000
Moskovskiy Eksperimental Niy Zavod DSPID (OAO) Novopodrezkovo 226,000 226,000
Pfleiderer GmbH Novgorod 500,000 500,000
Plitprom LLC JSC Kostroma, 350,000 350,000
Plitspichprom ZAO (SOUZ Group) Balabanovo, Kaluga 200,000 200,000
Public Enterprise Volgogradmebel Ugra Plit 82,000 82,000
Red October OAO DOK Tyumen 100,000 100,000
Rosplit LLC FC Nizhny Novgorod 86,000 86,000
SchKDP OOO Scheksna, Vologda 110,000 110,000
Sheksninsky Wood Panel Plant Sheksninsky 192000 192000
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Sveza-Less OOO (600K plant 2015-2016 start) Moskva
Sveza-Less OOO (ex ZAO Fankom LLC) Sverdlovsk 300,000 300,000
Perm Plywood Mill (SVEZA) Perm 238,000 238,000
Syktyvkar Plywood Mill LLC Syktyvkar 217,000 217,000
Tomlesdrev OOO Tomsk 150,000 150,000
Tomlesdrev OOO Tomsk 150,000 150,000
Tomlesdrev OOO Tomsk 300,000
Tomsk Particleboard Mill OJSC Tomsk 190,000 190,000
Tscherepowetski Tscherepowets 231000 231000
Ufa Plywood Mill LLC Privolzhskiy 50,000 50,000
Ugra OOO Ugra 150,000 150,000
United Panel Group Komi 375000 375000
Ust-Ilimsk Woodworks (Eastbridge Capital Partners) Ust-Ilimsk 157000 157000
Uvadrev Holding OAO Uve 500,000 500,000
Uvadrev Holding OAO Uva 170,000 170,000
Volgograd Mebel, JSC Mikhajlovka 50,000 50,000
Vyshnevelotsky DOK Volochek, 102,000 102,000
Yugra-Plit Plc (Department of Property of Khanty-Mansiysk) Sovetskiy, Khanty-Mansiysk 220,000 220,000
Zavod Nevskiy Laminate Ltd. Saint Petersburg 50,000 50,000
Zheshartsk Plywood Mill Syktyvkar 88,000 88,000
Total Russia 12,103,000 13,723,000
Serbia Spik Iverica (Fantoni) Ivanijca 150,000 150,000
Total Serbia 150,000 150,000
Slovakia Bucina DDD Zvolen 180,000 180,000
Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) Presov 350,000 350,000
Kronospan (P&M Kaindl) Zvoten 590,000 590,000
Swedwood (IKEA) ex VMG Trnava 160,000 160,000
Total Slovakia 1,280,000 1,280,000
Slovenia Lesna TIP Otiski Vrh d.d Sentjanz 330,000 330,000
Total Slovenia 330,000 330,000
Spain Finsa (Spain) Satiagno de Compostela 330,000 330,000
Finsa (Spain) Tordera Mugika 270,000 270,000
Utisa (Finsa) Albacete 290,000 290,000
Utisa (Finsa) Cella Teruel 285,000 285,000
Utisa (Finsa) Cella Teruel 380,000 380,000
Interbon (Kronospan P&M Kaindl) Burgos 280,000 280,000
Interbon (Kronospan P&M Kaindl) Burgos 363,000 363,000
Losan Group Cuenca 100,000 100,000
Losan Group Soria 100,000 100,000
Tafisa (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Valladolid 150,000 150,000
Tafisa (Sonae Indústria, Portugal) Linares 450,000 450,000
Unemsa (Union de Empresas Madereras SA) Gruppo Tojeiro Carballo (La Coruna) 100,000 100,000
Tableros Peruanos SA Aldaia 790,000 790,000
Tableros Peruanos SA Aldaia 79,000 79,000
Total Spain 3,967,000 3,967,000
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Sweden ACB Laminat AB Brunflo 70,000 70,000
ACB Laminat AB Brunflo 100,000 100,000
Byggelit AB Lit 80,000 80,000
Swedspan AB (IKEA Industry) Hultsfred 400,000 400,000
Total Sweden 650,000 650,000
Switzerland Kronospan Schweiz AG (Swiss Krono Group) Menznau 580,000 580,000
Total Switzerland 580,000 580,000
Turkey Cumorsan AS Tarsus 140,000 140,000
Devrektas AS Devrek 90,000 90,000
Foca-Sunta AS Foca 75,000 75,000
Ittas AS Inegol 110,000 110,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Kastamonu 220,000 220,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Balikesir 630,000 630,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Gebze 560,000 560,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Samsun 220,000 220,000
Kastamonu Entegre Group Tarsus 140,000 140,000
MKE Marangoz Fabrikasi Ankara 150,000 150,000
Orma AS Isparta 195000 195000
Samedoglu Orman AS Mersin 150,000 150,000
Serdar Aỉaç Kaplama Sanayi A.ỉ. Inegöl Bursa 90,000 90,000
Setas AS Kutahya 125,000 125,000
SFC Entegre Orman AS Kastomonu 50,000 50,000
SFC Entegre Orman AS Kastomonu 140,000 140,000
Starwood Orman Lines 2 Inegol, Bursa 270,000 270,000
Sumas Suni Tahta Ve Mobilya AS Balikesir 60,000 60,000
Suntasan AS Eskisehir 75,000 75,000
SuntaTahta Sanayii TAS Lines 2 Istanbul 160,000 160,000
SuntaTahta Sanayii TAS Istanbul 180,000 180,000
Tever Agac Sanayi ve Ticaret AS Cerkezkoy 90,000 90,000
Tever Agac Sanayi ve Ticaret AS Istanbul 112,000 112,000
Vezirkopru Orman Urunleri urun-ve-kagit Samsun 50,000 50,000
Vezirkopru Orman Urunleri urun-ve-kagit Samsun 150,000 150,000
Yildiz Entegre AS Orma, Isparta 450,000
Yildiz Entegre AS Akhisar, Kutahya 540,000 540,000
Yildiz Entegre AS Mudurnu, Bolu 345,000 345,000
Yonsan Ege Yonga AS Izmir 70,000 70,000
Yonsan Ege Yonga AS Izmir 240,000 240,000
Yontas AS Samsun 90,000 90,000
Yontas AS Siteler-Ankara 90,000 90,000
Total Turkey 5,607,000 6,057,000
UK Norbord Ltd. Canada Cowie 285,000 285,000
Norbord Ltd. Canada South Molton 190,000 190,000
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Egger (UK) Ltd. (Fritz Egger GmbH) Hexham 725,000 725,000
Egger (UK) Ltd. (Fritz Egger GmbH) Hexham 180,000 180,000
Egger (Barony) Ltd. (Fritz Egger GmbH) Barony, Ayrshire 400,000 400,000
Kronospan Ltd. (P&M Kaindl) Chirk 680,000 680,000
Sonae Industria (UK) Ltd. (fire closed plant Sept 2013) Liverpool 450,000 450,000
Spanboard Products Ltd. (Sonae) Coleraine N. Ireland 60,000 60,000
Spanboard Products Ltd. (Sonae) Coleraine N. Ireland 40,000 40,000
Total UK 2,560,000 2,560,000
Ukraine Krono-Ukraine LLC (Swiss Krono Group) Broshniv-Osada 600,000 600,000
Total Ukraine 600,000 600,000
TOTAL EUROPE 59,071,000 60,279,000
TOTAL ASIA-PACIFIC 20,218,000 20,318,000
TOTAL N. AMERICA 11,764,000 11,764,000
TOTAL S. AMERICA 8,754,000 8,754,000
TOTAL MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA 2,906,000 2,906,000
TOTAL WORLDWIDE [EX CHINA] 102,713,000 104,021,000
TOTAL CHINA 19,169,000 18,974,000
WORLD TOTAL 121,882,000 122,995,000
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China MDF Listing 2015
Company/Group Province City/Town Capacity cu m/yr
Start up Year
Anhui Asia Europe Wood Industrial Co. Ltd. Lines 2 MD/HDF Anhui Chuzhou 150,000 2005
Anhui Bengbo Dexiang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Bengbo 50,000 2007
Anhui Golden Forest Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Anhui Huaibei 40,000 2003
Anhui Guangda Co. Ltd. Anhui Guangda 80,000 2010
Anhui Jinchan Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Anhui Huaibei 15,000 1996
Anhui Jinchan Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Huaibei Coal Mine Bureau) Anhui Liu’an 80,000 2003
Anhui Liu’an Jiecheng Wood Co.Ltd. (Jiecheng Corporation) Anhui Liu’an 70,000
Anhui Liu’an Jiecheng Wood Co.Ltd. TMDF Jiangsu Guannan 40,000
Anhui QiXiang Forest Products Co. Ltd. Anhui Xiaoxian 100,000 2012
Anhui Taihu Linxing Board Industry Limited Liability Co. Anhui Taihu 80,000 2004
Anhui Taihu Linxing Board Industry Limited Liability Co. Anhui Liuan 80,000 2005
Anhui Huaibei Linxing Board Industry Ltd. Anhui Huaibei 80,000 2006
Aosen Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Henan Mengzhzou 80,000 2005
Asia Dekor (Heyuan) Co. Ltd. (Asia Timber Products Co. Ltd.) HDF/THDF owned by CVC Asia Pacific Ltd. Guangdong Heyuan 200,000 2005
ATP (Plantation Timber Products and Asia Dekor merger) Shanghai Shanghai 750,000
ATP Hubei Shishou 85,000 1998
Baishi Mountain Forest Bureau, Line 1 Jilin Baishishan 30,000 1996
Baishi Mountain Forest Bureau, Line 2 Jilin Baishishan 30,000 2001
Baosteel Woodbased Panel Co. Ltd. Liaoning Dandong 60,000 1998
Baosteel Woodbased Panel Co. Ltd. Liaoning Dandong 50,000
Beichuan Jiancheng Industrial Co. Ltd. Sichuan Beichuan 50,000 2005
Beichuan Jiancheng Industrial Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Sichuan Beichuan 70,000 2001
Beihai Wood Based Panel Plant (state-owned Guangxi Forestry Bureau) 2 Lines Guangxi Hepu 130,000 2003
Beijing Guanghua Timber Company Beijing Beijing 25,000 1990
Changqing Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Xingye 30,000 2000
Chengdu Quanyou Furniture Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Sichuan Chongzhou 120,000 2008
Chengdu Quanyou Furniture Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Sichuan Chengdu 100,000 2007
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Chengdu Quanyou Furniture Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Sichuan Quanyou 100,000 2010
Chenming Paper Shandong Chenming Qihe Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Shandong Qihe 160,000 2004
Chenming Paper Shandong Lindun Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Shandong Heze 160,000 2004
Chenming Xinli Thermoelectricity Plant Shandong Shouguang 75,000 2003
China Everbright Timber Industry Co. Ltd. (created by State Council to aid reform of China’s economy) Guangdong Shenzhen 30,000 1998
Chiping XinDa Density Fiberboard Co. Ltd. MDF HDF Lines 2 Shandong Chiping 200,000 1999
Chuzhou Huaneng Artificial Board Co. Ltd. (Anhui Chuzhou Huaneng Man Made Board Co.Ltd.) Anhui Chuzhou 50,000 1990
Chuzhou Huaneng Artificial Board Co. Ltd. Anhui Chuzhou 100,000 2001
Dare Global Group Danyang Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. HDF Jiangsu Danyang 324,000 2002
Dare Global Group Funing Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. MDF Jiangsu Funing 100,000 2000
Dare Global Group Fuyang Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. MDF Anhui Fuyang 100,000 2002
Dare Global Group HeiLongJiang Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Suifenhe 100,000 2008
Dare Global Group Jiangxi Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Jiangxi Fuzhou 250,000 2006
Dare Global Group Maoming Dare Wood Based Panel Co.Ltd. THDF Quangdong Maoming 300,000 2004
Dare Global Group Shandong Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Shandong Heze 250,000 2005
Dare Global Group Zhaoqing Dare Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Quangdong Zhaoqing 250,000 2008
Dazhou Shengda Co. Ltd. Sichuan Shengda Man Made Fibreboard Co. Ltd. HDF Sichuan Dazhou 160,000 2007
Dazhou Shengda Co. Ltd. Sichuan Guangyuan 250,000 2010
Deer New material Co. Ltd. HDF Kaiyuan Liaoning 150,000 2010
Dong Zheng Group (ex Guangxi Dong Zheng Wood Co. Ltd. ) Lines 2 Guangxi Chongzhou 180,000 2010
Dong Zheng Group (ex Guangxi Laibin Kaili Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Yizhou 135,000 2008
Dong Zheng Group (ex Guangxi Dong Lin Wood Co. Ltd.) Guangxi Yiyang 60,000 2003
Dong Zheng Group (ex Guangxi Dong Lin Wood Co. Ltd.) Lines 2 Jiangxi Jiujiang 105,000 2009
Dong Zheng Group (ex Guangxi Yizhou Kaili Wood Industry Co. Ltd.) Guangxi Fusui 40,000 2003
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Xuancheng 80,000 2002
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Changshu 15,000 1996
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Changshu 30,000 2000
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Fengyang 80,000 2003
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Hongze 30,000 2000
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Hongze 30,000 2001
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Huaiyin 30,000 2003
Dongying Dongguang Artificial Board Decoration Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Shandong Dongying 200,000 2007
Dongying Zhenghe Wooden Ware Co,.Ltd. (ex Shandong Guangrao Petrochemical Industry Group) Shandong Dongying 50,000 1996
Dongliya Wood Industries Co. Ltd. Sichuan Gongxian 50,000 2007
Dongying Zhenghe Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Dongying 50,000 2002
Dongying Zhenghe Wood Industry Co. Ltd. MDF HDF Shandong Dongying 160,000 2004
Dunhua Fodun Wooden lndustry (Hong Kong Datu Group) HDF Sichuan Santai 50,000 2007
Fanhua Forestry Investment Development Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Yunnan Feicheng 150,000 2011
Mining Group Co. Ltd. Dafeng Mine Guangdong Kaiping 80,000 2011
Five-Union Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Kaiping 70,000 2002
Five-Union Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Guangdong Yingde 70,000 2003
Foshan Nanhai Changmao Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Foshan 50,000 2008
Foshan Nanhai Kang Sheng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (HongKong China XingYe Holdings Ltd.) Lines 4 Guangdong Foshan 130,000 2002
Foshan Shunde Shunlong MDF-board Co. Ltd. Guangdong Foshan 50,000
Foshan Shunlong MDF-board Co.Ltd. Guangdong Foshan 100,000 2011
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Fugou Cotton & Flax Company Henan Fugou 30,000 1997
Fugou Cotton & Flax Company Henan Fugou 80,000 2011
Huqian Forest Industry Technology Co, Ltd. former Fujian Guangze Huqian Wood Based Panel Co.Ltd. Fujian Guangze 150,000 2009
Zhejiang Chun’an Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Chun an 115,000 2005
Fujian Guangze Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Anhui Funan 270,000 2010
Fujian Nanping Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Fujian Quanzhou 130,000 2006
Xinyi Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Fujian Jianou 100,000 2004
Fujian Hubei Furen Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Joint-Stock owner restructure 2002) Hubei Jingzhou 200,000 2012
Fujian Jianou Furen Wood Industry Co. Ltd. THDF Jianou Changji 60,000
Fujian Jianou Furen Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (sub Fujian CFC Industries Company Limited.) Jianou Changji 100,000
Fujian Liancheng Baiguan Co. Ltd. Fujian Liancheng 40,000 2004
Fujian Yongan Forestry (Group) Joint-Stock Co. Ltd. Fujian Yongan 110,000 1996
Fujian Yongan Forestry (Group) Joint-Stock Co. Ltd. THDF Zhaoqing Huaiji 250,000 2010
Fujian Zhong Fu Industries Co. Ltd. Fujian Fuzhou 60,000 1986
Fujian Zhong Fu Industries Co. Ltd. HDF Hunan Changsha 130,000 2010
Fujian Zhong Fu Industries Co. Ltd. HDF (2008 maj holder Sunny Time Forestry Development (Fujian) Co. Ltd.) Fujian Fuzhou 100,000 2006
Zhangzhou Zhong Fu Woodworking Co. Ltd. Yunnan Jinggu 220,000 2011
Fuyang MDF Plant Lines 2 Liaoning Shenyang 60,000 1996
Fuzhou Wood Based Panel Plant Fujian Fuzhou 53,000 1982
Fuzhou Wood Based Panel Plant Fujian Fuzhou 56,000 1996
Gaocheng Hongchang MDF Factory Hebei Shi Jiazhuang 50,000 2010
Gaocheng Sengxin MDF Factory Hebei Shi Jiazhuang 50,000 2010
Gaofeng Guanhua Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd.,. Guangxi Luchuan 80,000 2000
Gaofeng Guanhua Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Luchuan 80,000 2001
Gaofeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Nanning 100,000 2001
Gaofeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Rongxian 150,000 2004
Gaofeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Nanning 150,000 2003
Gaofeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (State-owned Forest Network) Guangxi Nanning 60,000 1997
Golden Field Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Guiping 40,000 2007
Green Continent Industrial Co. Ltd. (Hubei) Hubei Xianning 60,000 2004
Green Continent Investment Co. Ltd. (Shanghai ) Lines 2 Shanghai Changshou 50,000 2000
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Anhui Huangshan) Anhui Huangshan 100,000 2004
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Anhui) Anhui Qimen 80,000 2000
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Fujian Jian’ou) Fujian Jian’ou 80,000 2005
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Jaingxi) Jaingxi Jian 80,000 2005
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Jaingxi) Jaingxi Jian 165,000 2015
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Suichuan) Suichuan Hongya 70,000 1996
Green Continent Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Xinjiang) Xinjiang Changji 40,000 1998
Greet Wall Cotton Industry Co. Ltd. Hebei Jizhou 80,000 1999
Guandong Yuehai MDF Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Guangdong Zhanjiang 80,000 1996
Guangdong Hanhong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Guangdong Shaoguan 120,000 2012
Guangdong Hongtao Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Jiangmen 40,000 2005
Guangdong Huadeli Group Lines 1&2 Guangdong Lianjiang 100,000 2010
Guangdong Liren Guanhua Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Guangdong Kaiping 70,000 1996
Guangdong Meizhou Weilibang Corp., Guangdong Meizhou 70,000 1997
Guangdong Taishan Weilibang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (ex Taishan Weilibang Wood Co.Ltd.) Guangdong Taishan 200,000 2005
Guangzou Weilibang Corp., Medium-Density Fibreboard Manufacturing Co Ltd. Guangzhou Qingyuan 200,000 2006
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Fengkai Weilibang Wood Industry Company Ltd. (Weihua Holding Group) Guangdong Fengkai 300,000 2009
Hebei Weilibang Corp., HDF Hebei Qiu County 200,000 2009
Hebei Weilibang Wood Co. Ltd. THDF Hebei Qiuxian 200,000 2008
Hubei Weilibang Wood Co. Ltd. THDF Hubei Xiangfan 220,000 2008
Liaoning Tai’an Weilibang Wood Co. Ltd. Liaoning Tai’an 220,000 2008
Quingyuan Weilibang Wood Co. Ltd. Qingyuan Qingcheng 200,000 2004
Zeng Cheng Weilibang Corp., Medium-Density Fibreboard Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Guangdong Zeng Cheng 120,000 2001
Guangdong Yangchun Weilibang Wood Co. Ltd. Lines 4 Guangdong Yangchun 400,000 2006
Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Kaiping 50,000 2004
Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Qinyuan 50,000 2005
Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Shaoguan 120,000 2012
Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Yangjiang 100,000 2006
Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co.Ltd. Guangdong Shaoguan 50,000 2003
Guangdong Xinfeng Yuhua MDF Co. Ltd. Guangdong Xinfeng 80,000 2010
Guangdong Xinjiang MDF Co. Ltd. Guangdong Fengkai 30,000 1991
Guangxi Donglin Wood Co. Ltd. DongZheng I (MDF/HDF) Hubei Binyang 130,000 2012
Guangxi Donglin Wood Co. Ltd. DongZheng ll (MDF/HDF) Guangxi Binyang 130,000 2012
Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group.Co. Ltd. (Fenglin International (Nanning) Co. Ltd.) MDF Guangxi Nanning 150,000 2004
Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group.Co. Ltd. (Fenglin International (Nanning) Co. Ltd.) MDF Guangxi Nanning 220,000 2013
Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group.Co. Ltd. MDF Guangxi Baise 200,000 2007
Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group.Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Guangxi Huanjiang 30,000 2005
Guangxi Hengyuntong Guigang MDF Co. Ltd. Guangxi Guigang 50,000 2005
Guangxi Hezhou Xin Rong Xing Forestry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Hezhou 220,000 2011
Hezhou Xin Rong Xing Forest Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Yichun 220,000 2011
Guangxi Nanning Changmao Wood Industrial Co. Ltd. Guangxi Ningming 40,000 2004
Guangxi Ningming Takcheong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Ningming 40,000 2005
Guangxi Pingle Liguan Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Pingle 50,000 2007
Guangxi Pinxiang (Chinese Academy of Forestry) Guangxi Pingxiang 30,000 2003
Guangxi Rongan Huahai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou Huahai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. part of (Treezo Group) PB Guangxi Rongan 50,000 2000
Shandong Linyi Huahai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou Huahai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. part of (Treezo Group) MDF Shandong Linyi 80,000 2003
Guangxi Sunway Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. MDF Guangxi Shangsi 50,000 1995
Guangxi Sunway Bobai Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Bobai 200,000 2006
Guangxi Sunway Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Shangsi 80,000 2005
Guangxi Sunway Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. HDF Guangxi Wuzhou 300,000 2004
Guangxi Sunway Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. MDF Guangxi Cenxi 150,000 2002
Guangxi Sunway Rongzhou Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. MDF Guangxi Rongxian 150,000 2005
Guangzhou Huafangzhou Wood Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Guangzhou 200,000 2003
Jiangxi Nankang Huafangzhou Wood Panel Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Nankang 100,000
Guangzhou Nangang Board Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Guangzhou 30,000 2008
Guangzhou San Xing Wood Based Enterprises Co. Ltd. (Shi Tou Sugar Mill) Guangdong Shi Tou 50,000 1989
Guangzhou Xinxianmu Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd. (owned by Guangzhou Weisheng Machinery Co. Ltd.) Guangzhou Xinxianmu 30,000
Guangzhou Yuhua Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Conghua 40,000 2005
Guangzhou Yuhua Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Xinfeng 80,000 2009
Gulin Timber Co. Ltd. Yunnan Gulin 125,000 2009
Guodong Forestry Technology Co. Ltd. Sichuan Nanchong 275,000 2009
Hainan Shengda Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Founded 2011 Hainan Island 250,000 2012
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Hainan Yaron Wood Company Ltd. Hainan Shanya 80,000 1988
Harbin Shengxing Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Harbin 80,000 2004
Hebei Fuyuan Wood Co. Ltd. Hebei Langfang 30,000 1999
Hebei Golden Sunbird Trading Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Hebei Guzhou 200,000
Hebei Kaiyue Group, Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hebei Wen An 275,000 2009
Hebei Kaiyue Wen An County TianHua Density Board Co. Ltd. Hebei Wen An 320,000 2011
Chengdu Tianlan Wood Co. Ltd. (Hebei Kaiyue Group) Beijing Shunyi 350,000 2012
Hebei Shenzhou Changcheng Wood Industry Development Co. Ltd. Hebei Shenzhou 125,000 2011
Hebei Wen An Zhenyu Wood Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Hebei Wen An 80,000 2003
Hebei Yi County Tianzelin Board Co. Ltd. Hebei Yixian 80,000 2008
Hebei Yi County Yalin Panel Industry Liability Co. Ltd. Hebei Yixian 50,000 2004
Heihe Guanghe Shengxing Forestry Co. Ltd. Guanghe Heihe 180,000 2010
Heilongjiang Da Xinan Ling Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Da Xinan Ling 80,000 2005
Helong Forest Bureau Fiberboard Plant Lines 2 Jilin Helong 45,000 2000
Helongjiang Nanchai Wood Hydrolize Plant via CNTIC Heilongjiang Nanchai 60,000 1985
Henan Changge Xiangyu Boards Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Changge 40,000 2004
Henan Chengde Wood Co. Ltd. Lines 2 MDF/HDF Qiaozhuang Changge 180,000 2004
Henan Juyuan Wood Industrial Co. Ltd. Henan Kaifeng 140,000 2011
Henan Kaifeng Co. Ltd. Henan Kaifeng 30,000 1997
Henan San Men Xia Mingliu Wood Industries Co. Henan Sanmenxia 15,000 1997
Henan Shangqiu Dingsheng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Henan Shangqiu 80,000 2007
Henan Wood Based Panel Plant Henan Xihua 15,000 1998
Henan Xixia MDF Plant Co. Ltd. Henan Xixia 20,000 1996
Henan Yijia Forestry Development Co. Ltd. Henan Jiangsu 220,000 2012
Henan Yu Ren Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Henan Fugou 80,000 2010
Henan Zhoukou Hongyi Woods Co. Ltd. Henan Jiaozuo 150,000 2005
Henan Zhoukou Hongyi Woods Co. Ltd. Henan Zhoukou 150,000 2009
Henan Zhoukou Hongyi Woods Co. Ltd. THDF Henan Jiaozuo 220,000 2012
Henan Zhoukou Hongyi Woods Co. Ltd. THDF Henan Zhoukou 250,000 2012
Heze Jiaotong Group Group Coperation MDF Co. Ltd. Shandong Heze 100,000 2004
Hongfeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Yifeng 15,000 1995
Honghezhou MDF Factory (Honghezhou Forestry Bureau) Yunnan Jianshui 30,000 1999
Honghezhou MDF plant Jiangsu Mouding 30,000 2000
Honghezhou Mile Sugar Works Yunnan Mile 15,000 1996
Hongjian Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Sichuan Pingwu 50,000 2008
Hongshi Forest Bureau MDF Plant Lines 2 Jilin Huadian 60,000 2000
Hongtao Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Heshan 40,000 2008
Hua Sen MDF Factory Jiangxi Chongyi 15,000 1995
Huacheng Wood Based Panel Liability Co. Ltd. Chongqing Fengdu 60,000 2008
Huaguang Decorative Board Factory Guangdong Nanhai 60,000 1996
Huaguang Decorative Board Factory Guangdong Nanhai 35,000 2008
Huaguang Decorative Board Factory Guangdong Nanhai 80,000 2000
Huai’an Huifeng Wood industry MDF/HDF Jiangsu Huai’an Suqian 150,000 2012
Hualin Wood based Panel Co. Ltd. (Owned by Samling Group Malaysia ) Anhui Anqing 80,000 2002
Hualin Wood-based Panel Co. Ltd. Hebei Shenzhou 80,000 2003
Huanqiu Wood Industries Co. Ltd. Shandong Penglan 30,000 2001
Huasen Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Shucheng 50,000 2009
Huashengxin Wood-based Panel Co. Ltd. Qiong Zhong Qiong Zhong 50,000 2009
Huashengxin Wood-bBased Panel Co. Ltd. Hainan Qujiang 50,000 2008
Huaxing Co. Ltd. Oil Field Shandong Anhui 30,000 1997
Hubei Baoyuan Group Co. Ltd. Hubei Jingmen 50,000 2000
Hubei Baoyuan Group Co. Ltd. THDF Hubei Jingmen 185,000 2006
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Hubei Jiukesong Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hubei Qichun 30,000 2000
Hubei Jiukesong Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hubei Qichun 80,000 2002
Hubei Jiukesong Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hubei Qichun 80,000 2004
Hubei Tianmen Tianyuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd.,. Hubei Tianmen 50,000 2007
Hubei Tianmen Tianyuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Hubei Tianmen 145,000 2012
Hubei Xianning Wood Based Panel Plant Hubei Xianning 30,000 1995
Hubei Yichang Wufeng MDF Co. Ltd. Hubei Wufeng 30,000 1997
Huitai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu Lianshui) Lines 2 Jiangsu Fuxin 80,000 2008
Huitai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu Lianshui) Lines 2 Liaoning Fuxin 80,000 2008
Hunan Hengyang Timber Works Hunan Shaoyang 40,000
Hunan Hengyang Timber Works Hunan Zixing 30,000 2000
Hunan Hengyang Timber Works (Chenzhou Chuangxin Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd.) Hunan Hengyang 15,000 1997
Hunan Hengyang Timber Works Lines 2 Hunan Zhuzhou 110,00
Hunan Huitong County Keda Co. Ltd. Hunan Huitong 15,000 1997
Hunan Lindu Wood Co. Ltd. Hunan Huaihua 30,000 1997
Hunan Senhua Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Yiyang Senhua Forestry Development Co. Ltd.) MDF/HDF/THDF Hunan Yiyang 220,000 2011
Hunan Wood Based Panel Plant Co. Ltd. Hunan Changsha 30,000 1993
Hunan Wood Based Panel Plant Co. Ltd. Hunan Changsha 35,000 2000
Hunan XiangLin New Environmental Protection Wood Co. Ltd. THDF Hunan Changsha 135,000 2009
Hunan XiangLin Group Co. Ltd. (XiangLin Group Ltd.) Hunan Xinshao 30,000 2003
Hunan XiangLin Artificial Board Co. Ltd.,. Hunan Shaoyang 80,000 2005
Hunan XiangLin Estate Co. Ltd. Hunan Changsha 120,000 2009
Hunan Xiangyuan Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hunan Ningxiang 300,000 2011
Hunan Yiyang Senghua Co. Ltd. Hunan Ningxiang 40,000 2007
Hunan Yiyang Senghua Co. Ltd. THDF Hunan Ningxiang 220,000 2010
Hunan Zhangjiajie Wood Based Panel Plant Hunan Zhangjiajie 20,000 1996
Hunan Zhuzhou Changxing Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Lines 3 Hunan Zhuzhou 170,000 2009
Hunjiang Wood Based Panel Plant Jilin Hunjiang 30,000 1994
Huqian Wood Based Panel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Anhui Fuyang 220,000 2011
Huqian Wood Based Panel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Jiangsu 150,000 2002
Huqian Wood Based Panel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (ex Zhejiang Chunan Wood Based Panel Plant.) Zhejiang Chunan 15,000 1996
Huqian Wood Based Panel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Fujian Guangze 80,000 1998
Huqian Wood Based Panel Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Fujian Nanping 40,000 1997
Inner Mongolia Erduosi Coal (Group) Co. Ltd. Inner Mongolia Erduosi 80,000 2010
Jianfeng Chengdu Decoration Material Co. Ltd. Sichuan Chengdu 125,000 2009
Jianfeng Forest Products Co. Ltd. Sichuan Mianyang 50,000 2008
Jianfeng Forestry Co. Ltd. Sichuan Mianyang 60,000 2010
Jianfeng Forestry Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF/LDF Sichuan Mianyang 150,000 2012
Jiangsu DaJiang Wood Group Yitao Co. Ltd. MDF Guangdong Yitao 100,000 2012
Jiangsu DaJiang Wood Group Liuji Co. Ltd. HDF Hubei Liuji 100,000
Jiangsu DaJiang Wood Group Wuji Co. Ltd. MDF Hebei Wuji 100,000
Jiangsu DaJiang Wood Group Donghai Co. Ltd. MDF Lianyungang Donghai 100,000
Jiangsu DaJiang Wood Group Shuyang Co. Ltd. MDF, Lines 3 Jiangsu Shuyang 300,000
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group Anhui Fengyang 80,000 2005
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group Anhui Hongze 160,000 2000
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Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group Anhui Xuancheng 150,000 2003
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group Jiangsu Changshu 100,000 2009
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group (sub Anhui DongDun Wood Industry Co. Ltd.) ex state Anhui Huaiyin 30,000 1999
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group Lines 1&2 Anhui Taihei 180,000 2010
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group THDF Anhui Meilong 250,000 2007
Jiangsu Hanyun Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Huai’an 150,000 2012
Jiangsu Jinfeng Wood Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Shuyang 100,000 2002
Jiangsu Shengmao Wood industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Siyang, 200,000 2004
Jiangsu Yinmao Holding (Group) Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Suining 80,000 2007
Jiangxi Dayu County MDF Jiangxi Dayu 220,000 2013
Jiangxi Huayi Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Nankang Jiangsu 200,000 2011
Jilin Fundin Timber Co. Ltd. Anhui Huaibei 40,000 1995
Jinchen Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Nanchai 40,000 2003
Jinggu (Yunnan) Foresty Co. Ltd., Yunnan Jinggu 80,000
Jinhe Forestry Bureau Inner Mongolia Genhe 50,000 1999
Jining Gaoxing Timber Poducts Co. Ltd. Shangdong Jining 50,000
Jinjia Wood Industry (Hubei) Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Hubei Jiayu 60,000 2009
Jinjiang Group, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Shandong Heze 50,000 2000
Jinlong MDF Plant Liaoning Shenyang 30,000 1996
Jizhou Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hebei Jizhou 80,000 2003
Jizhou Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Hebei Jizhou 60,000 1994
Kaiping Liguan Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Kaiping 40,000 2006
Kanglan MDF Group Co. Lines 2 Guangdong Deqing 60,000 1992
Keruima Forest Industry Development Liability Co. Ltd. Sichuan Yibin 100,000 2008
Krono Jiangsu Wood Panels Co. Ltd. (ex Shenhua Wood Based Panel Plant) owned by Kronospan Germany Fengtai Beijing 170,000 1999
Krono Jiangsu Wood Panels Co. Ltd. (ex Fumanite Fibreboard Co.) HDF Jiangsu Danyang 90,000 1995
LangShun International Wood Industry Group, MDF HDF Heilongjiang Langxiang 100,000 2003
LangShun Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. , MDF HDF Heilongjiang Suifenhe 100,000 2006
LangShun Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. MDF HDF Heilongjiang Suifenhe 100,000
Lantian Wood Products Co. Ltd. Liaoning Shenyang 30,000 1997
Leizhou Forest Bureau Wood Based Panel Plant Guangdong Suixi 30,000 2002
Leshan Jixiang Wood Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Heyuan 210,000 2004
Leshan Jixiang Wood Panel Co. Ltd. Sichuan Leshan 150,000
Leshan Jixiang Wood Panel Co. Ltd. (owns Asia Dekor Group ) Sichuan Leshan 115,000
Leshan Jixiang Wood Panel Co. Ltd. Hubei Shishou 215,000
Liaoning Huairen MDF Plant Liaoning Huairen 30,000 1995
Lin An Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Sichuan Cangxi 50,000 2009
Lianyungang Jieda Wood Co.Ltd. Jiangsu. Lianyungang 40,000
Linyi Dexin Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Gaotang 40,000 2002
Linyi Dexin Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (ex Linyi Qiyang Laminated Board Factory) Shandong Gaotang 50,000 2004
Linyi Dexin Wood Industry Co. Ltd. 2 lines Shandong Gaotang 60,000 2001
Zhejiang Jiangshan Liren Wood Industry Co.Ltd. (ex State owned Lishui Timber Factory) Lines 2 Zhejiang Lishui 370,000 2008
Lishui OAK Co. Ltd. Fujian Zhangping 30,000
Lishui OAK Co. Ltd. Lines 2x150,000 + 2x200,000 Fujian Jiangyang 60,000
Lishui OAK Co. Ltd. (Pucheng Liping Wood-based Panel Co.Ltd.) Fujian Pucheng 80,000 2008
Lishui OAK Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd. Fujian Jianou 30,000
Shanghai Wanxiang Wood Industry Co.Ltd. Shanghai Fengxian 120,000 2010
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Jianyang Senlan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Fujian Guangzhou 200,000
Zhejiang Lishui Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Zhaopin 100,000
Luyuan (Anhui) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Ningguo 80,000
Luyuan (Fujian Pucheng) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Fujian Pucheng 80,000 2001
Luyuan (Fujian) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Fujian Longyan 80,000
Luyuan (Guangdong) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Yangdon 200,000 2007
Luyuan (Jiangxi) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Xinfeng 80,000
Luyuan (Longquan) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Zhejiang Longquan 70,000 2003
Luyuan (Shaowu) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Fujian Shaowu 150,000 2011
Luyuan (Zhejiang) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Suichang 200,000
Lvzhousenggong Liuan Co. Ltd. Anhui Liuan 200,000 2011
Meiling Wood Based Panel Factory Fujian Nanping 40,000 2003
Mr Liu Tao Xinjiang Bohu 50,000
Mr Wu Chunhua Anhui Liuan 50,000
Mr. Fan Xu Dong Sichuan Renshou 60,000 2009
Mr. Fan Xu Dong Lines 2 Sichuan Ya’an 100,000 2007
Mr. He Dalu Sichuan Penshan 60,000 2009
Mr. Lu Peng Jiangsu Shuyang 50,000 2008
Mr. Wu Chunhua Anhui Liuan 50,000 2008
Mr. Yin Huacheng Sichuan Jiajiang 50,000 2007
Nanshan Wood Industries Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Shandong Longkou 45,000 2004
Nature Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Shangrao 80,000 2009
Pearl River Sugarcane Chemical General Plant Guangdong Fanyu 18,000 1991
Pingyuan Youbang Wood Industrial Co. Ltd. Guangdong Meizhou 50,000 1995
PTP Leshan (Plantation Timber Products Leshan Ltd.) Lines 2 Sichuan Shishou 125,000 1996
PTP Leshan (Plantation Timber Products Leshan Ltd.) THDF Sichuan Leshan 240,000 2009
Qingyuan Yingde Wulian Artificial Board Co. Ltd. Guangdong Qingyuan 50,000 2002
Qiushi Wood Co. Ltd. Shandong Qingdao 80,000 2001
Quzhou Tianhang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Kaiyuan 80,000 2003
Quzhou Timber Industry Corporation Guangdong Yangshan 150,000 2008
Robina Wood Ltd. (Robin Group ex State-owned Yichun Forestry Management Co Ltd.,) HDF Jiangxi Yichun 90,000 2000
Robina Wood Ltd. MDF HDF Jiangxi Yichun 120,000 2004
Robina Wood Ltd. MDF HDF Jiangxi Yichun 200,000 2001
Homanit (China) Co. Ltd. (joint venture by Robin Group & Homanit GmbH) Lines 2 Jiangxi Yichun 400,000 2005
Saihanba Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Yunnan Weichang 30,000 1996
Sammy (Shengyuan) Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Shandong Zibo 50,000 1996
Sammy Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Shandong Zibo 80,000 2002
Sammy Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Shandong Zibo 80,000 2005
Sammy, Shengyuan Shandong Co. Ltd. (Huantai, & Hong Kong Wai-Ching Ltd. joint venture) Shandong Zibo 150,000 2012
Sandu County MDF Plant Guizhou Sandu 30,000 1999
Sanming Yinghan Construction Estate Co. Ltd. Hebei Sanming 40,000 1997
Sanwei (Guangxi Wuzhou) Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Wuzhou 240,000 2005
Sanya Huasheng Economic Development Co. Ltd. Fujian Haikou 80,000 2004
Sanya Huasheng Economic Development Co. Ltd. Hainan Qiongzhong 50,000
Sanyuan Property Developing Co. Ltd. Guangxi Baise 230,000 2003
Sanyuan Property Developing Co. Ltd. Lines 6 Guangxi Nanning 120,000 1996
Senhua Plywood Ltd. MDF Zhejiang Senhua 100,000
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Senlan Wood Co. (Li Ren Wood Group) Fujan Lishui 60,000 1994
Senlan Wood Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Fujian 200,000 2006
Senlan Wood Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Jiangshan 150,000 2003
Li Ping Man Made Board Company Fujan Pucheng 100,000 2002
ShaanXi Zhong Xing Timber Co. Ltd. ShaanXi Hanzhong 30,000 1995
ShaanXi Zhong Xing Timber Co. Ltd. ShaanXi Hanzhong 50,000 2001
ShaanXi Zhong Xing Timber Co. Ltd. ShaanXi Xian 220,000 2009
ShaanXi Zhong Xing Timber Co. Ltd. THDF ShangXi Xian 150,000 2005
Shandong Chengwu Exported Tung Tree Products Factory ShaanXi Chengwu 200,000 2005
Shandong Chiping Hengxi MDF Co. Ltd. Shandong Chiping 15,000 1986
Shandong Chiping Nengtong MDF Liability Co. Ltd. Lines 32 Shandong Chiping 105,000 2003
Shandong Chiping Xinda Density Fiberboard Co. Ltd. Shandong Chiping 15,000 1995
Shandong Chiping Xinda Density Fiberboard Co. Ltd. Shandong Chiping 40,000 2003
Shandong Dongyu Energy Co. Ltd. Shandong Feicheng 200,000 2004
Shandong Fambros Group (Senquan Board Industries Co. Ltd.) Shandong Yanggu 100,000 2004
Shandong Gaotang Thermo-Electric Plant Shandong Gaotang 80,000 2003
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Shandong Yucheng 120,000 2004
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Shandong Yucheng 200,000 2008
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Sichuan Nanbu 100,000 2009
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Shandong Yucheng 100,000 2010
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Shandong Yucheng 160,000 2010
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Shandong Yucheng 160,000 2011
Shandong Heyou Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Hubei Yixian 160,000 2012
Shandong Houzhen Plywood Plant Shandong Houzhen 80,000 2004
Shandong Jining (China Petroleum Chemical) Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Shandong Jining 80,000 2003
Shandong Libo Daily Chemical Products Co. Ltd. Shandong Weifang 80,000 2003
Shandong Qixing Board Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Zouping 80,000 2001
Shandong Sen Tai MDF Co. Ltd. Shandong Ningjin 40,000 2000
Shandong Senxin Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hubei Jingzhou 50,000 2001
Shandong Xinhua Chiping Decorative Materials Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Shandong Chiping 50,000 1999
Shandong Zhenghe Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Fujian 80,000 2004
Shanghai Wood Based Panel Plant Shanghai Shanghai 37,000 1987
Shanghai Xin Gaochao Group Co. Ltd. Suzhou Shenbo Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Lingbi 80,000 2009
Shanghai Xin Gaochao Group Co. Ltd. Shanghai Xinyi Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shanghai Nanhui 80,000 2004
Shangpin MDF Plant Lines 2 Henan Shangcai 60,000 2000
ShanXi Tongchuan Wood Based Plant Hainan Tongchuan 80,000 2003
ShanXi Xinyuan JD Wooden Industry Co. Ltd. Shanxi Xinyuan 140,000 2010
Shanya (Hainan) Timber Plant Lines 2 Hainan Shanya 60,000 1997
Shanya (Hainan) Timber Plant Hainan Shanya 60,000 2002
Shaoyang Chuangxin Wood Baed Panel Co, Ltd. Hunan Shaoyang 40,000 2005
Shengda Wooden Products Co. Ltd. Sichuan Chengdu 130,000 2006
Shenglin Timber Slab Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Hebei Yi County 160,000 2000
Shenyang Fuyang MDF Plant Lines 2 Liaoning Shenyang 60,000 1996
Shenyu Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Sichuan Naxi 40,000 1998
Shouguang City Shengxing Company Co. Ltd. Shengxing Shouguang 50,000
Shouguang Cotton & Yarn Group Shandong Shouguang 30,000 1996
Shouguang Fushi Wood Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Shandong Weifang 100,000 2008
Shouguang Kundu Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 30,000 2005
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Shouguang Pengyuan Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong QingDao 50, 000 1997
Shouguang Ruiwang Timber Industry Co,. Ltd. Shandong Weifang 85,000 2000
Shuangbai MDF Factory (Shuangbai Forestry Bureau) Yunnan Shuangbai 40,000
Shunda Forest Plantation Products Co. Ltd. Sichuan Ziyang 30,000 2004
Shuyang JinFeng Wooden Product Co. Ltd. Shuyang Jiangsu 120,000 2003
Shuyang New Concept Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (sub of Jiangsu Yeshi Group) Jiangsu Shuyang 50,000 2004
Sichuan Guodong Construction Co. Ltd. HDF/THDF Sichuan Chengdu Mianyang 300,000 2010
Sichuan Guodong Construction Co. Ltd. HDF/THDF Sichuan Shuangliu 300,000 2008
Sichuan Guodong Construction Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Lines 2 Guangyuan Gaoping 450,000 2009
Sichuan Nanchong Guodong Construction Co. Ltd. HDF a Sichuan Chengdu 300,000 2011
Sichuan Nanchong Guodong Forestry Technology Co. Ltd. Sichuan Nanchong 200,000 2011
Sichuan Anxian Xianglong MDF Plant Sichuan Anxian 40,000 2007
Sichuan Baoshan Corporation (Group) Co. Ltd. THDF Sichuan Pengzhou 250,000 2011
Sichuan Chengdu Jianfeng Industrial Co. Ltd. Sichuan Dayi 40,000 2007
Sichuan Jiajiang Shenglin Forestry Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Sichuan Jiajiang 60,000 2010
Sichuan Zhongtiandi Wood Co. Ltd. Sichuan Chengdu 60,000 2008
Songlin Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Shuyang 80,000 2003
South China Sea Petroleum MDF Plant Guangdong Huaiji 30,000 1991
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Taihe 100,000 2010
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Fuyang 40,000 2003
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Shaowu 80,000 2001
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Xinfeng 80,000 2001
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Anhui Ningguo 80,000 2002
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Zhejiang Longquan 60,000 2000
Suichang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 4 Zhejiang Suichang 110,000 1999
Suichuan Donglin Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Suichuan 30,000 1998
Suqian Stronger Building Material Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Suqian City 600,000
Taihe Dongdin Co. Ltd. Anhui Taihe 130,000 2011
Teng Xian Wood Based Panel Plant via CMC Anhui Taihe 105,000 2010
Tengchong Gulin Tree Industry Co. Ltd. Yunnan Tenching 70,000 2004
Tengchong Gulin Tree Industry Co. Ltd. Yunnan Tenching 165,000 2012
Tiangang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Sichuan Langzhong 50,000 2008
Tiangong Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Dafeng 50,000 2008
Tianjin Fujin Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Tengxian 54,000 1994
Tianmmen Tianyuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hubei Tianmen 40,000 2007
Tianmmen Tianyuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hubei Xiantao 400,000 2011
Tulihe Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Yakeshi Neimenggu 130,000 1983
Wangqing Forestry Bureau Lines 2 Jilin Wangqing 30,000 2000
Wo De Sen Wood Industry Co, Ltd. Lines 2 Guangdong Fushan 110,000 2008
Wugong Wood Based Plant Wugong Shanxi 30,000
Wuzhi Group Co. Ltd. Anhui Hefei 80,000 2010
Xianglin Group Co. Ltd. (Xianglin Group Ltd.) Hunan Xinshao 30,000 2003
Xianglin Group Co. Ltd. Hunan Xianglin Artificial Board Co. Ltd. Guangxi Tengxian 300,000 2011
Xianglin Group Co. Ltd. Hunan Xianglin New Environment Protection Wood Co. Ltd. Hunan Xinshao 30,000
Xinglong (Heilongjiang) MDF Board Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Bayan 65,000 1998
Xinhhongxing Fiberboard Co. Ltd. MDF Guangdong Boluo 50,000 2010
Xinjiang Bo Lake Wood Based Panel Plant Jiangxi Wuyuan 30,000 1997
Xinjiang Jin Yang Mei Jia Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Xinjiang Changji 360,000 2010
Xinjiang Jin Yang Mei Jia Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Xinjiang Changji 40,000 2005
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Yunnan Chuxiong Wood Based Panel Plant Yunnan Chuxiong 80,000 1997
Yunnan Jinggu Foresty Co. Ltd. Shandong Yucheng 80,000 2004
Yunnan Jinggu Foresty Co. Ltd. Yunnan Jinggu 15,000 1998
Yunnan Jinggu Foresty Co. Ltd. Yunnan Jinggu 15,000 1997
Yunnan Jinggu Foresty Co. Ltd. Yunnan Jinggu 80,000 2005
Yunnan Ruijiang Fiberboard Co. Ltd. Yunnan Yuanjiang 40,000 2005
Yunnan Simao Hongfa Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Shanxi Datong 120,000
Yunnan Yuxi Hongta Group Co. Ltd. (Artificial Board Plant) Yunnan Jinggu 50,000 1996
Zhangzhou Zhong Fu Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Yunnan Jinggu 80,000 2004
Zhangzhou Zhong Fu Woodworking Co. Ltd. (sub of Fujian CFC Industries Company Ltd.) Fujian Fuzhou 220,000 2011
Zhaopin MDF Factory Yunnan Simao 50,000 1997
Zhaoqing Daya wood industry Guangdong 200,000 2007
Zhejiang Golden Sea Communication Facilities Co. Ltd. Yunnan Yuxi 50,000 1998
Zhejiang Huqian Investment Co. Ltd. in 2004 Huqian Forest Industry Technology Co, Ltd. 100,000
Zhejiang Chun’an Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Zhejiang 100,000
Fujian Guangze Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Fujian Guangze 100,000
Xinjiang Miquan City Yongnan Compress Boards Plant Xinjiang Aletai 20,000 1998
Xunwu MDF Factory Golden Sea Communication Facilities Co. Ltd. Xinjiang Miquan 100,000 2009
Xuzhou Qianlong Madera Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Xuzhou 100,000 2005
Xuzhou Qianlong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Xinjiang Miquan 40,000 2004
Xuzhou Shengyang Wood Based Plant Jiangsu Xuzho 20,000 1997
Yangzhou Liyou Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Xinjiang Miquan 50,000 2009
Yichang Jintayuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. 2 lines Sichuan Luzhou 180,000 2008
Yangshan Shunlong Wood Industry Co.Ltd. (Shunlong Wood Ind Group ex Shunlong MDF-board Co.Ltd.) Lines 6
Shunlong MDF-board Co. Ltd. Guangdong Yangshan 200,000
Deqing Shunlong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Guando Deqing 100,000
Huaiji Shunlong Wood Industry Co.Ltd. Guangdong Huaiji 60,000 2005
Yangshan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Guangdong Fancun Yangshan 100,000
Yichang Yuanlin Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hebei Yixian 30,000 2000
Yichun Wood Based Panel Plant Hebei Yixian 30,000 1995
Yimei Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Huaiji 50,000 2010
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd.[Hebei Yingang Wood-based Panels] Hebei Yixian 200,000 2012
YinGang Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd. Sichuan Nanchong 300,000 2008
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co., Ltd., Hubei Suizhou 300,000 1999
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. MDF & PB on site Sichuan Nanbu 250,000 2010
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. THDF 2-40mm Hebei Zhengding 210,000 2004
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Beijing Yuanda Salt Industy Development Co/China National Salt Group) Hebei Zhengding 175,000 1995
Yizhou Board Group Co. Ltd. Hebei Yixian 30,000
Yizhou Board Group Co. Ltd. Hebei Yixian 80,000
Yizhou Board Group Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Hebei Yixian 60,000
Yongfu Longteng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Yongfu 50,000 1998
Yongfu Longteng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Yongfu 200,000 2015
Yuncheng Xinyuan Junda Wood Industry Co. Ltd. ShanXi Yuncheng 80,000 2006
Yuncheng Xinyuan Junda Wood Industry Co. Ltd. ShanXi Yuncheng 120,000 2010
ShanXi Junda Wood Industry Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Shanxi Xiaxian 150,000 2011
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Fujian Nanping Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Fujian Nanping 100,000
Jiangsu Xinyi Huqian Man-made Board Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Jiangsu 100,000
Zhejiang Jiangshan Liren Wood Industry Co.Ltd. (ex State owned Lishui Timber Factory) Lines 2 Zhejiang Lishui 370,000
Zhejiang Lishui Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Zhaopin 100,000
Zhejiang Yuhang Jinjiang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Quzhou 15,000 1995
Zhejiang Yuhang Jinjiang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Wenzhou 30,000 1999
Zhengyanghe Timber Integrated Processing Works Fujian Fuding 50,000 2003
Zhongxin Forest Products Co ., Ltd. (ex Shaanxi Mianxian Wood-Based Panel Cooperation) ShaanXi Mianxian 45,000 1994
Zhongxin Forest Products Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Haerbin 15,000 1996
Zhongxin Forest Products Co. Ltd. Hubei Shishou 150,000 1999
Zhongxin Forest Products Co. Ltd. Zhejiang Yuhang 80,000 2003
Zhoukou Dahe Forestry Co. Ltd. (100% state owned Henan Investment Group ) MDF/THDF Henan Zhoukou 225,000 2012
TOTAL CHINA FIBREBOARD 53,782,000
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Anhui Compax Systems Co. Ltd. Anhui Hefei 30,000
Anhui Kentier Wanhua Artificial Board Co. Ltd. Anhui Chuzhou 60,000
Asia Dekor (Heyuan) Co. Ltd. CVC Asia Pacific Guangdong Huizhou 220,000
ATP (Plantation Timber Products and Asia Dekor merger) Guangdong Huizhou 275,000
Baimalong BML Yunnan Biamalong 220,000
China Machinery Engineering Corp (ex China National Machinery) Hanan Keifeng 335,000
Chongqing Wood Complex Yubei Chongqing 35,000
Chuzhou Particleboard Factory Chuzhou Dezhou 30,000
CMC International Hanan Keifeng 40,000
CNTIC (China National Technical Import & Export Corporation) Beijing Heilongjiang 95,000
Danzhou Xinmufeng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hainan Danzhou 95,000
Dare Wood (Dare Sanming) Dare Global Group. Sanming Fujian 800,000
Dawn Forests Wood Industrial Shouguang Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 60,000
Dezhou Dadashen Co. Ltd. Dezhou Dadashen 80,000
Double Wood Industry (Huizhou) Co. Ltd. (Caramel Board industry) Guangdong Huizhou 200,000
Dongfang Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Heilongiang Zhangjiagang 100,000
Dongguan Dacheng Carpentry Mfg Factory (ex Dongguan Shi Dacheng Carpentry Ware Co.Ltd.) Guangdong Dongguan 40,000
Dunhua Particleboard Co. Ltd. Dunhua Ganzhou 30,000
Foshan Nanhai Dachang Wooden Board Co. Ltd. Guangdong Foshan 540,000
Foshan Tianteng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Foshan 450,000
Fujian Furen Wood Industry Co. Ltd. China National Forest Product Ind Corp. Jianou Changji 450,000
Fuzhou Wood-based Panel Plant Fujian Fuzhou 255,000
Gaofeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (State-owned Forest Network) Guandong Luchan 320,000
Gaofeng Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (State-owned Forest Network) Guangxi Nanning 300,000
Genhe City Mengsen Particleboard Co. Ltd. Mengsen Genhe 50,000
Guangdong Shixing Huazhou Wood Co. Ltd. Guangdong Huazhou 250,000
Guangdong Shixing Particleboard Huazhou Wood Co. Ltd. Gangzhou Shixing 200,000
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Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Shaoguan 300,000
Guangdong Wulian Wood Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Ningming Chongzuo 250,000
Guangxi Huasheng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Guigang 275,000
Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Guangxi Nanning 225,000
Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group Co. Ltd. MDF/HDF Fenglin ll Guangdong Huizhou 175,000
Guangxi Sunway Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Jiamusi 60,000
Guangxi Sunway Forest Products Industry Co. Ltd. Guangxi Shangsi 30,000
Guangxi Xiangsheng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Ningming Chongzuo 250,000
Guangxi Xiangsheng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Ningming Chongzuo 360,000
Guangxi Xiangsheng Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Paiyang Shang Group (Govt Owned) Guangxi Chongzuo 220,000
Guangzhou Baiyun Taihe Baishan Qunyi Wooden Products Factory Guangdong Guangzhou 450,000
Guangzhou Huafangzhou Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Guangzhou 160,000
Guangzhou Huafangzhou Wood Industry (Group) Co. Ltd. Guangdong Guangzhou 150,000
Guangzhou Shixing Particleboard Factory Co. Ltd. Guangdong Shixing 220,000
Guangzhou Wa Fong Chau Wood (Group) Co. Ltd. Guangdong Guangzhou 100,000
Guizhou Liyuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Sansui Guizhou 60,000
Gulin Timber Co. Ltd. Yunnan Gulin 80,000
Hebei Donghai Xuri Wooden Industry Co. Ltd. Jiangxi Ganzhou 150,000
Hebei Golden Sunbird Trading Co. Ltd. Hebei Guzhou 200,000
Hebei Golden Sunbird Trading Co. Ltd. Hebei Guzhou 300,000
Hebei Tongli Wood Co. Ltd. Hebei Wen An 50,000
Hebei Tongli Wood Co. Ltd. Hebei Wen An 50,000
Hebei Yingang Wood Ind. Co. Ltd. Hebei Zhengding 270,000
Heze Fulin Wood Products Co Ltd. Fulin Wood Group Shandong Heze 80,000
Hezhou Fuda Babu Particleboard Babu Hezhou 30,000
Hong Wei Woods Industry Co. Ltd. (Renhua) Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Huizhou 140,000
Hong Wei Woods Industry Co. Ltd. (Renhua) Group Co. Ltd. Guangdong Huizhou 220,000
Hongze Dongtai Panel Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu East Shield Wood Group) Jiangsu Hongze 70,000
Guangdong Shixing Huazhou Wood Co. Ltd. (Mr Zhang Fenglan owner) Gangzhou Jiangxi 50,000
Guangdong Shixing Huazhou Wood Co. Ltd. Guangdong Shixing 200,000
Huahai Guangxi Rongan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou Huahai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. part of (Treezo Group) Zhejiang Hangzhou 100,000
Huahai Guangxi Rongan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Yunnan Shizong 120,000
Hubei Baoyuan Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Boluo 70,000
Huizhou Guangtian Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Huazhou 250,000
Huizhou Shengyi Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hunan Changsha 90,000
Hunan Wood Based Panel Plant Co. Ltd. (L ines 2) Inner Mongolia Genhe 30,000
Inner Mongolia Genhe Boarding industry Co. Ltd. Lianyungang Donghai 30,000
Jiangsu DaJiang Wood Group Donghai Co. Ltd. Changshu 50,000
Jiangsu Dongdun Wood Industry Group Jiangsu Siyang, 200,000
Jiangsu Shengmao Wood industry Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Shuyang 150,000
Jiangsu Tongxin Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Jieyang 50,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. (State holding enterprise) Jilin Baihe 59,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jilin Fengxian 100,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jilin Genhe 95,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jilin Hunijang 50,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jilin Hunijang 90,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jilin Hongshi 60,000
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Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jilin Fusong 130,000
Jilin Forest Industry Group Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Xuzhou 275,000
Jilin Forest Industry Stock Co. Ltd., Jiangsu Branch Shandong Heze 60,000
Juancheng Chenming Panels Co. Ltd. Shandong Heze 60,000
Yeji Liren Wood Anhui Liu’an Industry Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang Liren Wood Group (ex Lishui Oak) Anhui Liu’an 220,000
Yeji Liren Wood Anhui Liu’an Industry Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang Liren Wood Group (ex Lishui Oak) Anhui Yeji 300,000
Liren Wood Zhejiang Jiangshan Industry Co. Ltd. (ex State owned Lishui Timber Factory) Zhejiang Lishui 220,000
Qingyuan Changqing Particle Board Co Ltd. (Guangzhou Weiheng Machinery Co. Ltd.) Zhejiang Lishui 80,000
Qingyuan Shangxing Wood based panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Qingyuan 60,000
Yangjiang Shangxing Wood-Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangdong Yangjiang 40,000
Shandong Heze Fulin Wood Products Co. Ltd. (Fulin Wood Group) Shandong Heze 80,000
Shandong Tongling Green Panel Co. Ltd. Shandong Zouping 100,000
Shandong Xingyang Wood Co. Ltd. Shandong Zouping 30,000
Shenzhen Hoxang Wood Co. Ltd. Guangzhou Shenzhen 100,000
Shenzhen Hoxang Wood Co. Ltd. Guangzhou Shenzhen 100,000
Shouguang Fushi Wood Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 100,000
Shouguang Grandway Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 40,000
Shouguang Huayuan Wood Co. Ltd. Shandong Weifang 50,000
Shouguang Kundu Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 30,000
Shouguang Linhai Wood Materials Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 30,000
Shuangmu Wood Industry (Huizhou) Co. Ltd. Guangdong Boluo 250,000
Shuangmu Wood Industry (Huizhou) Co. Ltd. Guangxi Shangsi 30,000
Shunlong Deqing Wood Industry Co. Ltd. (Shunlong Wood Industry Group) Guangdong Deqing 70,000
Shunlong Huaiji Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangdong Huaiji 70,000
Shuyang Yangtse River Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Shouguang 35,000
Sichuan Guodong Construction Co. Ltd. Lines 2 Guangdong Boluo 150,000
Sichuan Guodong Construction Co. Ltd. Guangyuan Gaoping 100,000
Suihua City Yongshun Particle Board Fty Heilongjiang Suihua 35,000
Suqian Stronger Building Material Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Suqian City 145,000
Tangshan Fortunelinn Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hebei Qian Xi 100,000
Tangshan Fortunelinn Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Guangyuan Gaoping 100,000
Tangshan Fortunelinn Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Heilongjiang Suihua 35,000
Wa Fong Chau Fenglin Wood (Wa Fong Chau Wood Group) Guangdong Shixing 220,000
Wanhua EcoBoard Jingshou Co. Ltd. Hebei Qian Xi 100,000
Wanhua EcoBoard Jingshou Co. Ltd. Hubei Jinzhou 500,000
Wulian Wood Guangdong Industrial Group Co. Ltd. (owned by Mr Yang Yin Sen) Guandong Shaoguan 300,000
Wulian Wood Guangdong Industrial Group Co. Ltd. Hebei Qian Xi 100,000
Wuqiao Rongtai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Hebei Wuqiao 200,000
Wuqiao Rongtai Wood Industry Co. Ltd. Shandong Henan 500,000
Xuyi De’er Man-Made Board Co. Ltd. Jiangsu Huaian 300,000
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (Beijing Yuanda Salt Industty Development Co/China Ntnl Salt Group) Sichuan Nanbu 250,000
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. (CNSIC) MDF & PB on site Sichuan Nanbu 450,000
YinGang Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Hebei Wuqiao 450,000
YinGang Zhongyan Wood Based Panel Co. Ltd. Guangxi Rongan 50,000
TOTAL CHINA PB 18,974,000
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“We are Turkey’s largest wood panel producer and
the fourth largest wood panel company in Europe,
so our additional investment will help us to grow,”
Haluk Yildiz, CEO and Board Member of Kastamonu
Integrated Wood Industry and Trade Company
(Kastamonu Entegre) told our Associate Editor,
David Hayes. Turkey’s MDF production capacity is
now 5.7mn m³/yr provided by 15 production lines,
according to Yildiz, who added: “Our income growth
rate has been about 25% in US$ terms during
the past 10 years, so sensible growth is important
in future. We look for new forest resources, sales
growth and the market condition.”
Heavy investment by industry leaders in new
MDF and PB plants has raised Turkey’s position in
the world producer rankings during the past three
years as domestic housing construction and growing
exports continue to boost overall demand for wood
panel boards.
“Most of our existing MDF and PB plants are
working at about 100% capacity, so it shows we
were right in making these investments. Up to now
this success has given us the motivation to make
new investments.” commented Yildiz.
According to industry figures, Turkey has
recently overtaken Germany to occupy Europe’s No
1 position as Europe’s largest MDF producer, and is
now the world’s second largest MDF producer after
China. In PB Turkey is now the third largest producer
in Europe after Russia and Germany, and is ranked
No 5 in the world after China, the US, Russia and
Germany. In laminated flooring, Turkey also is a
top three member, ranked as No 2 in Europe after
Germany, and No 3 in the world after Germany
and China.
“Three MDF and three PB board lines have
been installed in the last three years, so there
has been a huge increase in capacity,” said Yildiz.
Kastamonu Entegre’s own MDF capacity in Turkey,
where the company has four lines, now exceeds
1.4mn m³/yr and consequently accounts for
around 25% of Turkey’s installed MDF capacity.
Turkey’s PB capacity also has grown to reach
5.3mn m³/yr provided by 13 production lines, and
three new plants being commissioned between
2012-2014 with a combined capacity of 1.27mn
m³/yr,Yildiz noted.
The three new MDF lines are: Kastamonu
Entegre’s 420,000m³/yr Dieffenbacher line
commissioned in its Adana factory in 2012; a
420,000m³/yr Siempelkamp line that entered
service in the Yildiz Entegre Tarsus plant in the
same year, and more recently the 430,000m³/yr
Siempelkamp line that started up in AGT Antalya’s
factory early in 2014.
Kastamonu Entegre’s own PB production
capacity in Turkey currently stands at 2mn m³/
yr year, provided by five lines, which places the
company with a 39% share of the Turkish PB
market. Three PB lines were installed in Turkey
between 2012-2014 with a total 1.34m³/yr of
combined capacity. These lines were: Yildiz
Entegre’s 540,000m³/yr plant at Akhisar, Kutahya,
and the company’s 345,000m³/yr Mudurnu plant;
also, the Orma 450,000m³/yr plant at Isparta.
In total, the three MDF lines and three PB
lines installed in Turkey during 2012-2014 added
2.62m³/yr to the country’s panel board industry
production capacity which stands at 11m³/yr
including 100,000m³/yr OSB production capacity
provided by two lines.
Turkey’s young and growing population of
76mn people is driving the nation’s residential
housing construction boom which is playing
a major role in lifting domestic demand for
MDF, PB and other construction and interior
furnishing materials.
“There are about 500,000 people getting
married each year, so they need about 250,000
new homes. There are many new office buildings
and shopping malls as well, so everyone needs
‘Kastamonu Integrated Wood Industry and Trade Company’, known locally as Kastamonu Entegre, was established in 1969 in the city of Kastamonu in Turkey’s Black Sea region. Privately owned, Kastamonu Entegre has the organisational structure of a joint stock company, headed by company president Yahya Kigili. The company is 80% owned by family-owned Hayat Holding, which also owns a separate company called Hayat Kimya, which operates in the in consumer goods industry. Kastamonu wants to be a global player and to remain a private company while carrying out its ambitious expansion programme choosing to invest profits rather than pay shareholders via a stock market listing.
Almost 600,000 new homes are built every year due to tourism and as homes for young people who are getting married. It’s also government policy to rebuild old housing units to provide earthquake-safe housing. Haluk Yildiz, CEO of Kastamonu Entegre
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furniture and new materials,” Yildiz remarked.
“Turkey is also a big tourist destination. Almost 30mn tourists come here
each year, so there are many hotels. They change their furniture almost every
five years, so that’s a big market as well.”
According to Kastamonu Entegre, in Turkey MDF were 2.65m³/yr in 2013
and rose to 2.79m³/yr in 2014; while PB sales were 3.2m³/yr in 2013 and
grew to 3.56m³/yr in 2014. Laminated flooring sales in Turkey were 100m²/
yr in 2013 and reached to 104 m²/yr in 2014. Given the demand growth at
home, Turkish exports of MDF and PB are therefore small.
In 2013, Kastamonu Entegre’s MDF exports were 70,000m³ compared
with 360,000m³ combined for all Turkish producers while the firm’s PB
exports in 2013 were 133,000m³, almost half the combined 285,000m³
exported by all Turkish manufacturers.
As to profits and loss accounts, Kastamonu Entegre is expected to report
a double digit increase in total income for 2014 when its financial results
are announced. The expected strong result will follow a 5% increase in US
Dollar sales in 2013, which reached US$1.1bn, while the company’s Turkish
lira income rose by 15% due to currency fluctuations during the year.
“Our total sales increased in 2013 because of our new Tatarstan MDF
plant in Russia and our new PB plant in Romania, which also started up
in 2013,” Yildiz said. “For 2014 we expect to see a 10% increase in US$
sales and almost a 20% increase in Turkish lira.” Foreign income is growing
as Kastamonu expands its overseas operations. In 2013 some 75% of the
companies total revenue was generated in Turkey while overseas factories
accounted for 25% of overall income. Overseas factory sales are now
expected to reach 30% of total revenue during 2014. “Our target for five
years’ time is 50% of total income generated in Turkey and 50% from
outside Turkey,” Yildiz added.
Adana MDF Plant
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was acquired from IKEA in January 2015, in this
same location, which will increase total capacity to
1m³/yr in Alabuga Factory.
The Alabuga plant site covers 80 hectares, with
additional land being available to extend the plant
site to cover 100 hectares if needed. Alabuga’s
industrial zone agency offered Kastamonu Entegre
reasonably priced land to build the company’s
new wood panel plant along with electricity and
gas supplies, and railway delivery services.
“Currently our wood resources are coming
from nearby forests but we need the railway line
and rail wagons to bring in chemicals for our plant
and to ship out MDF panels,” Yildiz explained. “For
distances over 500 to 600 km, it’s economical
to use the rail service. Start up is scheduled for
first quarter 2016. Plans also call for a large PB line
and an OSB line to be installed in the Tatarstan
plant, which will become the company’s largest single
manufacturing facility when the PB line enters service.
The Alabuga plant’s Siempelkamp line is
capable of producing MDF in thicknesses ranging
from 4mm to 40mm. The most com-mon MDF
board size produced at the plant measures 2.07
x 2.8 metres. “We will make all MDF thicknesses
but 16mm is the most common,” Yildiz said.
“We have installed a completely integrated plant
with an MDF line, two short cycle presses from
Wemhoener and one impregnation line from Vits;
Exports to nearby Iraq, Iran and North African
countries are important to the company and
these regions lack their own for-estry resources
and consequently rely on imported furniture and
other wood panel-based products of which Turkey
is an important supplier. Kastamonu Entegre
also exports MDF and PB to Europe, South Asia
and Africa.
“At this moment we are also selling our boards
to Poland, CIS countries and the Russian Federation,”
Yildiz said. “Also, we sell door skins to India, Pakistan,
France and Africa, so we cover countries with about
1.5 bn total population.”
The start up of the Tatarstan plant has lifted
Kastamonu Entegre’s total combined MDF and PB
production capacity to around 4.6mn m³/yr.
“We can become No 3 in Europe in future and
rank as No 5 in the world for MDF and PB,” Yildiz
said. “Our target is US$2bn turnover in 2021 with
MDF and PB each accounting for about 50% of
revenue. MDF probably will be slightly higher in price
because of flooring sales, but maybe less than PB in
cubic metre output.”
In addition to the company’s domestic Adana
MDF plant, which opened in 2012, Kastamonu
Entegre’s 560,000m³/yr Romanian PB plant started
up at the end of 2012 along with the firm’s 19.5 mn
pieces per year door skin production line in Romania.
Apart from supplying the Romanian market, the door
skin production line also exports to neighbouring
Greece, the Ukraine, Hungary, Macedonia, Kosovo,
Moldova, Serbia and Bosnia.
“We have a one third share of the Romanian PB
market, but we do not ship to Bulgaria as we have a
plant there,” said Yildiz. “Demand in Turkey for MDF
is good, although this is unexpected as after the big
investment, which was made in the three new MDF
plants, MDF supply in Turkey now exceeds demand.
“One reason why MDF demand here is good is
that there were a lot of European wooden flooring
imports before, but the Turkish lira is down in value
and so flooring imports have now decreased.”
Tatarstan plant capacity is almost 20% of the Russian Federation’s MDF capacity,
Meanwhile, Kastamonu Entegre recently
commissioned a large new MDF plant in Alabuga a
small city in Tatarstan with one of the most highly
regarded industrial zones in the Russian Federation’s
Volga region. “This will be one of the biggest
industrial zones in the Russian Federation so they
will need homes for employees and other buildings.
This area will grow very fast,” Yildiz said. “It’s our first
investment in the Russian Federation,” Yildiz noted.
“Our factory site is only about 10km from the Volga
river and there is a railway line connection, so we can
reach many places from there. “We spent five years
to check and prepare for our Tatarstan investment.
“Our factories have to be near to wood
supplies and the MDF market. Timber supplies will
be provided to the factory by the government of
Tatarstan which is renting forest land under a 49
year lease contract from the Russian Federation
Ministry of Forestry to supply the plant. “Tatarstan
government is managing the forest for us. All forest
belongs to the Russian Federation,” Yildiz said. “The
timber there is a mixture of birch, pine, poplar and
Linden trees.”
The MDF market in Tatarstan is at an early stage.
It’s the central government’s idea to support the
furniture industry in the nearby area. We support
the development of this, but we will send most of
our MDF outside of Tatarstan. “Our factory is about
1,000km east of Moscow. Our Tatarstan plant
capacity is almost 20% of the Russian Federation’s
MDF capacity, so we can cover Moscow as well,”
Yildiz said. Kastamonu has installed a 2.8 metres
wide, 55 metres long Siempelkamp continuous
press of 565,000m³/yr, rated capacity, which
currently makes it Europe’s biggest MDF line.
“We spent about US$260mn on this factory.
It’s our biggest Greenfield investment in production
capacity and cost,” Yildiz said. “We chose to invest
in Tatarstan as we have a good MDF and PB market
share in Turkey.
Kastamonu will install a second MDF line which
When the new Tatarstan MDF and PB factory investments are included, the company has grown to become the fourth largest manufacturer of MDF and PB in Europe and is now ranked No 8 in the world.
After starting panel board production in Turkey, we went to Bulgaria and then to Romania to invest, so our fourth step is to invest in the Russian Federation.
There are two ways to grow – go out and get more market share; also, go out for more raw materials. The company will expand its operations in surrounding countries with natural timber resources for the rest of the decade.
also, one laminate flooring line from Homark, and a resin plant.
“Our target is to use 30% of the MDF produced for flooring and 70% for
MDF boards and melamine with MDF panels.”
In addition to producing MDF, the company’s plan is to order a PB line
at the end of 2015 capable of producing 950,000m³/yr. “It will be a very
big line. Alabuga will be the biggest board making location for Kastamonu
Entegre,” Yildiz said. “The PB investment will be about US$150mn as we
have already made the infrastructure investment for the MDF production line.
This is sufficient for the PB line as well. The PB will go to the same market
and customers.”
In addition, plans call for a 480,000m³/yr OSB line to start up at the
Alabua plant in 2019 along with a 12.5mn door skins per year line the
same year.
Kastamonu Entegre has chosen to install a high capacity PB line as the
infrastructure investment cost to provide water, electricity, waste treatment
facilities and railway cargo access would be large, Yildiz explained, whether a
high capacity or a small scale panel board plant is built at the site.
As part of its current 10 year business development plan, Kastamonu
has set a target of setting up MDF production plants in at least three separate
locations in the Russian Federation. In addition to Tatarstan, the company
owns land in the Krasno area near Sochi where the 2014 Winter Olympic
Games were held. Yildiz added that a site for a third factory has been chosen
about 200km south of Moscow. A fourth factory could also be constructed
in the Russian Federation in future, possibly at a location north of Moscow.
“Building a second plant in Russia depends on how the market improves.
We expect to start site preparation in 2017 near Moscow because panel
board market demand will grow there,” Yildiz said.
“Our second factory will be a repeat of the Tatarstan factory with the
same production capacity and producing the same width MDF board though
the length of the panels could be different. “We expect the second Russian
factory will start production in 2019. We have chosen a 2019 start up for
technical and financial reasons.
“It’s still too early to say when our third Russian MDF factory will open.”
Asked about future investments planned for the company’s current 10 year
long term business development programme, Yildiz noted that Kastamonu
Entegre is looking to install MDF lines of various capacities in Turkey, Romania
and Bulgaria.
Plans for a new MDF plant in Turkey will involve installing a new MDF
line to serve the Aegean region in 2017 with most of the production being
targeted at the domestic market.
“We are planning to open an MDF plant in Denizli in the Aegean area as
there are good timber sources and a good market nearby,” Yildiz explained.
“Currently our Gebze MDF plant covers Marmara, Adana in the south, and
eastern Turkey, while our Kastamonu MDF plant covers northern Turkey and
mid-Antalya; so our proposed Denizli plant will be to cover the Aegean re-
gion. The plant will be about 360,000m³/yr in capacity.”
Investment plans for Turkey also include building a new PB plant to
replace the firm’s old existing plant in Kastamonu, which is located away from
the city’s modern industrial zone.
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T E C H N O L O G Y & P R O D U C T D E V E L O P M E N T
Biodegradable and recyclable forms of composite materials have been in the
industry headlines for several years, with the automobile industry having been
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low-cost production.
MDF cannot be recycled in its current form and it either has to be inciner-
ated, or dumped as landfill. On-going investigation into alternative and compat-
ible composite fibre-based materials has produced some interesting results,
but to-date have lacked commercial take-up.
A wood-based product similar to MDF that uses a potato starch is a recent
development by Professor Andrew Abbott and his team at the Department of
Chemistry at the UK’s University of Leicester. Large volumes of MDF have short
term use in the retail sector for example and an opportunity to recycle or pass
to compost represents a significant benefit. Professor Abbott’s material devel-
opment is thus claimed to be fully recyclable, fully biodegradable, easier to
produce and to machine-finish compared with conventional MDF panel board.
Cabinet made from recycled MDF.
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IMAL, as experts in resination systems for over 40 years, has recently designed
the Hi-Jet system, which sprays resin into the blow line at over 100 bar to
achieve perfect distribution over the fibres. Early research began with micro-
scope analysis of the resin crystals from which we discovered that a reduction
in the size of the crystals used on line achieves much better resin distribution
over the fibres. Consequently, a lower resin load is required to achieve the
same desired board properties.
The IMAL design sprayer nozzles are the only ones of their kind on the
market. Our system does not mix the resin with steam, but adds the steam in
small quantities into the blow line through separate nozzles, mounted opposite
the glue nozzles, to help open up the fibres and hence achieve a better distri-
bution. The glue is sprayed through special IMAL design sprayers that keep the
pressure constant, even if flow rate varies. This is extremely important, because
if the production line is to run at a different rate due to a change in panel thick-
ness, and the resin flow rate rises from 10-50kg per minute, then our nozzles
keep the pressure at 100 bar, or at the set pressure.
Another big benefit of injecting steam separately is the lack of any need
to constantly open and close the blow valve. In the IMAL system, the blow
valve is opened completely and then the steam is dosed to maintain the coun-
ter pressure at the refiner. Basically, the amount of steam applied is inversely
proportional to fibre flow rate, thus the more fibre we have, the less steam is
applied and vice versa when fibre flow rate falls, steam consumption will rise.
The system is currently producing excellent results on 63 panel production
facilities, 40 of which produce MDF.
Another significant innovation is the Dynasteam, which injects steam into
the mat before entering the press without creating damp spots. Independent
steam distribution areas on each of the two sides, also vary the amount
of steam across the board width. There are no thickness limits with the
Dynasteam, which can accommodate 2-50mm thick panels. Recently, steam
on a PB line increased line speed by over 20%. It is also possible on all MDF
lines to achieve a 10-15% increase, which can be even higher when produc-
ing thick panels. On a large MDF line in Northern Europe, where for various
reasons, the customer was not interested in running the line faster after putting
the Dynasteam into operation, other production benefits also became evident
because when steam is injected into the mat, the core reaches 100°C, much
earlier than it would normally. Thus, after applying steam on the line, the inter-
nal bond value rose by 15% and the operator began lowering the resin load
to return to the IB value required for production. This drop in resin addition
automatically leads to resin savings, which has to be an on-going cost-effective
production benefit.
Resination SystemsCONTRIBUTION FROM IMAL
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T E C H N O L O G Y & P R O D U C T D E V E L O P M E N T
Definitions can sometimes cause confusion as materials and products change over a period of time, but the basic descriptions remain the same, or worse become compromised. This situation currently applies within the generic wood-based panels category of materials. One particular aspect arises in the growing use of non-wood based fibrous sources such as Rubber trees, Bamboo and the use of recycled and secondary ligno-cellulose and non-cellulosic sources.
Panel Products Terminology
Rather than enter into a discursive over the problem of descriptions
and misunderstandings that arise in translation (as noted in the sec-
tion on Global Production Capacity Figures in Contention) the follow-
ing FAO definitions serve as a reminder of current terminology used
in the changing material and product-based panels industry sectors,
with which we are concerned in this publication. For a complete
description and breakdown of all panel products please refer to
ht tp ://www.carbeck .org /pdfs/FPL_Wood_Handbook _Ch10.pdf
The generic term ‘wood-based panels’ applies to a product category
that is an aggregate comprising: Plywood, Particleboard, Fibreboard and
Veneer sheets, which are measured in cubic metres of solid volume.
FIBERBOARD (FB) panel manufactured from fibres of wood or other ligno-
cellulosic materials with the primary bond deriving from the felting of the
fibres and their inherent adhesive properties (although bonding materials
and/or additives may be added in the manufacturing process). It includes
fibreboard panels that are flat-pressed and moulded fibreboard products.
It is an aggregate comprising hardboard, medium density fibreboard
(MDF) and insulation board. It is reported in cubic metres solid volume.
Fiberboard and Particleboard differ mainly by their physical configuration of
the comminuted material. FB exploits the inherent strength of wood fibres
to a greater extent than PB. FB is normally classified by its density and can
be made by either dry or wet processes. Dry processes are applicable to
boards with high density (hardboard) and medium density (MDF). Wet
processes are applicable to both high-density hardboard and low-density
insulation board.
HARDBOARD (HB) Wet-process fibreboard of a density exceeding 0.8 g/
cm3. It excludes similar products made from pieces of wood, wood flour or
other ligno-cellulosic material where additional binders are required to make
the panel and with those panels made of gypsum or other mineral material.
MEDIUM DENSITY FIBERBOARD (MDF) Dry-process f ibreboard.
When density exceeds 0.8 g/cm3, it may also be referred to as
“high-density f ibreboard” (HDF).
OTHER FIBERBOARD (MDF) Wet-process f ibreboard of a density not
exceeding 0.8 g/cm3. This includes medium board and sof tboard
(also known as insulation board).
PARTICLEBOARD (PB) PB grew from a need to dispose of large
volumes of sawdust, planer shavings, mill residues and other
relatively homogeneous waste materials produced by other wood
industries. PB is made by mechanically reducing the material into
small par ticles, applying adhesive and consolidating a loose mat
formation. Reducing lingo-cellulosic materials to par ticles requires
less energy than reducing the same material into f ibers. However,
PB is generally not as strong as f iberboard because the fibrous
nature of ligno-cellulosics is not exploited as well. PB is typically
made in three layers. The sur faces of the board consist of f ine
wood par ticles and the core is made from coarser material. The
smooth face assists laminating, overlaying, painting, or veneering.
PB is also made from agricultural residues. Low-density insulating
or sound absorbing PB is made from Kenaf core or jute stick. Low-,
medium-, and high-density panels can be produced with cereal
straw, as used in Nor th America. Rice husks are used in medium-
and high-density products in the Middle East. Par ticleboard is
used for furniture cores, where it is typically overlaid with other
materials for decorative purposes. Thin panels can be used as a
panelling substrate. As most applications are interior, PB is usually
bonded with a UF resin, but PF and MF resins are used to impar t
moisture resistance.
THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES Ligno-cellulousic materials
plus thermoset ting polymeric materials e.g., phenol- or urea-
formaldehyde have long been used in the production of
composites. Ligno-cellulosics plus thermoplastics are a more recent
development. Thermoplastics sof ten when heated and harden
when cooled and include polypropylene, polystyrene, vinyls,
and low- and high-density polyethylene. Wood flour from post-
industrial materials such as planer shavings, chips, and sawdust
is readily available as a f iller in thermoplastic composites. Wood
fibers, although more dif f icult to process compared with wood
flour, can lead to superior composite proper ties and act more as
a reinforcement than as a f iller. Other additive materials can be
used to improve bonding between the thermoplastic and wood
component as for example, coupling agents, product per formance
(impact modifiers, UV stabilizers, f lame retardants) and
processing lubricants.
SPECIALITY COMPOSITES Special-purpose composites are
produced to obtain desirable proper ties like water resistance,
mechanical strength, acidity control, and decay and insect
resistance. Overlays and veneers can also be added to enhance
both structural proper ties and appearance.
HYBRID MATERIALS As the name implies, hybrid panel materials
can be made from a variety of like and non-like, f ibrous, non-fibrous
materials, polymers, etc., to specif ically suit the end-use application
of a par ticular product. There are a number of varieties of which
a good example is the recent Accsys Technologies plc acetylation
of wood chips, and par ticles. The process relates to schoolboys
hardening conkers in vinegar, but Accsys has worked out how to
do it on a scale that enables solid wood (Accoya®) and wood
elements (Tricoya®) to be used as environmentally sustainable
construction materials.
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Sandvik’s relationship with the extended timber industry stretches back well
over a century and the company has been the pioneering force behind many
of the most significant innovations, from the development of the double belt
press to the introduction of steel belt grades that have brought new levels of
productivity to the industry.
The company continues to focus on producer’s ability to achieve pre-
mium product quality and maximize productivity. A good example includes
the means to achieve “invisible” repairs and tighter tolerances for welds in
regard to thickness and flatness deviation. It is the company’s firm belief
that quality and productivity will be key differentiating factors in an increas-
ingly global market. Sandvik has therefore announced the roll-out of a global
service, which will see more than a 50% increase in the number of service
engineers available to support customers worldwide.
Joerg Kaufmann, Global Manager for the WBP-sector noted that these
teams can: “….speak the local language, focus on customers’ process and
that service isn’t the only area to benefit from investment and operational
improvements. “Our Press Belt Department is currently running the biggest
improvement project ever. We are seeking the input of OEMs, end users and
others to drive improvements stakeholders are looking for in terms of steel
belt materials, belt performance, deliveries and other efficiencies.”
“One other advantage for customers is the availability of Sandvik’s steel
laboratory in Sandviken, Sweden, the largest facility of its kind in Northern
Europe. Sandvik has 50,000 employees and is active in 130 countries. To be
a part of a group of this size and stability serves as an insurance deal for most
of our customers,” says Kaufmann.
“We have been able to support our WBP-customers from the very
first and we are putting the investment in place to make sure this remains
the case.”
Sandvik Builds To Meet FutureDemandCONTRIBUTION FROM SANDVIK
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 71
“This is part of our 10 year plan – we build a new PB plant about 500,000m³/
yr in size to open in three to four years’ time. We will close the existing
plant which is about 40 years old,” Yildiz said. “Our new PB plant will be in
Kastamonu industrial zone along with our new MDF line there.”
Investment plans for Bulgaria, meanwhile, involve building an MDF plant
capable of producing about 480,000m³/yr in board thicknesses from 4mm
up to 40mm thick. “We plan to start this plant up in 2018. It will use local
timber supplies,” Yildiz said.
“Bulgaria already exports more than this new plant’s timber requirement to
Turkey. We will build the plant at the same location as our PB plant in Bulgaria.
“MDF from this plant will be for Bulgaria and for export to Turkey, Greece and the
Balkans region.”
Plans for Romania, meanwhile, are expected to involve building a thin
board MDF plant capable of producing about 180,000m³/yr. “We have no
schedule yet for this project; it could be opened in 2018 or 2020,” Yildiz said.
“The factory for the MDF line is built and ready. The MDF will be for local sale
and to export to the Balkans region.”
In addition to new facilities planned for Turkey, the Russian Federation,
Bulgaria and Romania, Kastamonu Entegre’s 10 year development plan
includes two projects in Bosnia – a paper mill and a 250,000m³/yr MDF
plant to supply the domestic market and the surrounding Balkans region. The
company also has plans to build an MDF and PB plant in the Ukraine though
the timing will depend on political developments in the country.
“There are no dates yet; no one knows what will happen in the Ukraine,”
Yildiz said. “We have a location west of Kiev. There are a lot of timber
resources in the Ukraine; they export a lot of timber to Turkey.”
Kastamonu Entegre had previously considered buying the existing
260,000m³/yr Art Progress MDF plant in the Ukraine, but terminated its
interest in 2011 to concentrate on its Tatarstan wood panel board scheme.
The company plans to install an MDF line capable of producing about
480,000m³/yr in the Ukraine along with a PB line of 600,000-700,000m³/
yr capacity. Kastamonu will carry out market research first before deciding
whether to install an MDF line or a PB line first when conditions are suitable
for the project to proceed.
“Now we have a 30% share of the Turkish wood panel market, so it’s
difficult to gain more share,” Yildiz said.
“We believe in our sector. We want to be active in emerging markets and
active in locations that are connected to each other – all our investments
are in neighbouring countries. “We could look further afield for other
opportunities in the long term future. “Maybe in 10 years’ time we will look at
India, Pakistan, Africa and the United States, but we will grow with low risk.”
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While further growth in panel consumption and production are expected
through to at least the mid-decade, the pace of growth is likely to slow further
as the construction and furniture markets both become cyclical as China’s
economy matures.
China’s consistent economic expansion equates with a linear growth in
its demand for wood-based panels. However, as in all developed economies,
at some point in the business cycle there will be changes in demand in the
construction markets and personal consumption patterns. At that point, panel
consumption will experience periods of decline. The search for cost-effective
alternative end-use materials will also drive product displacement and re-
placement usage, plus an increase in demand between materials e.g., from
plywood to MDF/HDF, or to a non-wood or hybrid material. Some domestic
panel producers will inevitably face competition from better quality or differ-
ent panel material combinations.
Firstly, fibre is expensive; resin is not cheap; and labour will become more
expensive. What effect will this have on China’s producers? Certainly there
will be an increase in M&A in mainland China and this may involve investment
from other areas. This will coincide with some demise among smaller and
less efficient producers who operate out-dated manufacturing plants. China’s
plywood manufacturers have struggled with issues of quality especially with
exports, plus an availability of legal log supplies to manufacture high qual-
ity face veneers. While there may not be a significant rise in China’s panel
imports during the rest of the decade, the potential exists for more offshore
supplies to penetrate China’s panel markets from lower production cost
countries in which some Chinese high-volume panel producer companies
are already investing.
At the same time there is a focus by some Chinese companies in in-
vesting in the domestic production of higher-value panel materials and/or
converted end products directed towards a growingly more discriminating
consumer sector. Also, some domestic Chinese panel manufacturers will face
the pass down effect of rising direct imports of panels, or of manufactured
products, which incorporate panels in their construction (e.g., furniture). If
the recent CFPA/RISI estimates of an increase in production are correct, then
the inevitable related increase in business sustainability pressures on global
timber supplies and prices will apply for many years to come.
The word on the street from an aspect of panel raw materials and panel
manufacture is that all eyes should concentrate on China and Russia with
regard to a potential ‘supply-crunch’ that could drastically impact trade flows
in export markets. The growing commercial and environmental pressures that
currently face the forest products industry sectors are such that the smaller
and less efficient panel operators will face bankruptcy as the preferences
exerted by consumers and OEMs for one material over another will lever-
age a transition between existing materials e.g., plywood to MDF/HDF, or
possibly an alternative hybrid. Such a movement will support new product
development in accordance with the current position that panel materials
have on the life-cycle curve, as observed else-where in this edition of the
MDF Yearbook.
If China were to be involved in a ‘supply crunch, it could dramatically ef-
fect sub-regional import sustainability. Not only this, but as China responds to
the need to create a domestic consumer-led market, while avoiding American
style superficial materialism, it will also have to cope with a cultural develop-
ment that will set Chinese business apart from most of the world. Evidence
of this has existed all along, but has been side-lined by consistent economic
expansion, which explains why there is a continuing need for the presence of
’ex-patriots’ in China and many Asian countries.
The gap between Chinese business management’s understanding of
western business ethics and culture is enormous. In almost every respect
western business culture is completely different from the way business is
conducted in mainland China. This situation will become more problem-
atical as the Chinese government encourages growth in multinational-based
companies and related brand image culture, at the same time that it seeks
to leverage good financial returns from its massive US dollar holdings. The
Chinese hold a narrow view of marketing and the decision-making process
is qualitatively different in China, largely because of organisational hierarchy.
based on a fundamental principle of mistrust among Chinese executives
as well as foreigners. This presents a heavy burden on an international
business scene.
Given the CFPA (Chinese Construction & Furniture Production
Association) forecast assumptions about China’s GDP growth in industrial
production, furniture production, and housing, then the CFPA has projected
further increases in total panel production in each of the years 2014 and
2015. From 151mn m³ in 2013, total panel production is forecast to climb
7% to 162mn m³ in 2014 and to rise by another 8% in 2015 to 175mn m³.
Pro-duction in 2015 will thus be 24% above 2012 and twice the level of
China’s Move to Consumer-led Economy Raises Questions
China’s double-digit economic growth during the past 15 years is slowing in direct accordance with standard historic patterns experienced by developing country economies. The bottom line is the pass-down effect that economic growth plays in improving the general standard of living among a rapidly-growing middle class that focuses more on the affordable quality-of-life. This is expressed through higher-quality housing and increased spending on better quality food, plus consumer goods such as furniture and electronics, as well as more leisure time, resulting in vacations and second homes.
China does not have a clear long-term competitive advantage in manufacturing lumber and panels.
2008. Plywood will remain the largest panel product category, with a 42%
share of total panel output in 2015 (73mn m³ - a 26% jump over 2012),
followed by MDF/HDF with a 35% share (60mn m³, 25% above 2012).
A related pass-down effect of the noted cultural divide at corporate
business and individual levels is the reliability of business, economic and
trade statistics. For example, the accuracy of information reported by the
Chinese State Forestry Administration, (SFA) has been in doubt for some
years and the SFA has acknowledged problems and is expected to publish
revised data at some point, according to US consultants RISI and the (CFPA).
Previously announced data has accordingly been downwardly adjusted
by RISI and CFPA by an amount of 33% for each of the years 2011-2012.
The largest downgrade was made to reported plywood quantities.
Fibre/wood-based panels represent about 78% of China’s
combined lumber and generic panel production and the CFPAF has indi-
cated that data panel production in China in 2013 would be 7.5% higher
than in 2012 than the level reported. Actual production levels are how-
ever not necessarily easy to document. Nevertheless, the MDF Yearbook’s
editors are well aware that the ‘accuracy’ of engineered (rated) capac-
ity data relating to fibreboard and particleboard plants has been over or
under exaggerated by companies and third party sources for various
economic, commercial and financial reasons. The overall situation is
however fairly clear as portrayed in the accompanying charts that are
considered to reflect as accurate a profile of the FB/PB panel sectors that
currently can be expected.
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Macroeconomic & RegionalEconomies’ Profiles
The Global economy expanded by an estimated 2.6% in 2014, and is projected
to expand by 3% in 2015, 3.3% in 2016 and 3.2 % in 2017. Developing coun-
tries’ economies grew by 4.4% in 2014 and are expected to reach 4.8% during
2015, 5.3% and 5.4% in 2016 and 2017, respectively. However, global economic
recovery is seen to remain fragile and is reliant on increasingly divergent trends
with significant implications for global growth.
“Worryingly, the stalled recovery in some high-income economies and even
some middle-income countries may be a symptom of deeper structural malaise,”
noted Kaushik Basu, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President. “As
population growth has slowed in many countries, the pool of younger workers is
smaller, putting strains on productivity. But the lower oil price, which is expected
to persist through 2015, is lowering inflation worldwide and is likely to delay
interest rate hikes in rich countries. This creates a window of opportunity for
oil-importing countries, such as China and India; we expect India’s growth to
rise to 7 % by 2016. What is critical is for nations to use this window to usher
in fiscal and structural reforms, which can boost long-run growth and inclusive
development” said Basu.
Economic prospects focus on the collapse in oil prices in the second half of
2014, which will leverage winners and losers and could significantly reduce infla-
tionary pressures and improve current account and fiscal balances in oil-import
reliant developing countries, e.g., China. The extent to which low oil prices will
strain balance sheets in oil-producing countries will also be a determining factor.
Likewise, persistently weak global trade is a determining factor linked to financial
market volatility as interest rates in major economies rise on varying timelines.
High-income countries as a group are expected to face a modest GDP rise of
2.2% this year (from 1.8% in 2014) and by about 2.3% in 2016-17. US expan-
sion is expected to accelerate to 3.2% this year (from 2.4 percent last year),
before moderating to 3% and 2.4% in 2016 and 2017, respectively. In the Euro
Area, growth is put at 1.1% in 2015 (0.8% in 2014), rising to 1.6% in 2016-17.
In Japan, growth will rise to 1.2% in 2015 (0.2 % in 2014) and 1.6% in 2016.
Activity in the US has been growing, but recovery has been weak in the
Euro Area and Japan as legacies of the financial crisis linger. China is undergoing
a carefully managed slowdown within a still-robust GDP growth of 7.1% in 2015
(7.4% in 2014), 7% in 2016 and 6.9% in 2017.
The above scenario adds up to the likelihood, if not certainty, that trade
flows and supply-chains are likely to remain weak at least during the current
year. Global trade has slowed significantly to around 4% during 2013-2014, at
almost half pre-crisis annual growth at 7%. The slowdown partly reflects demand
weakness and seemingly a lower responsiveness to world trade growth. Thus,
commodity prices are expected to remain level and ‘soft’ in 2015.
The accompanying charts present an awareness and overview of national
and regional economies‘ forecast development.
A World Bank report on Global Economic Prospects in January 2015 noted that the year 2014 was another disappointment in terms of economy development in the mature economy nations, although developing regions “should see an uptick in growth this year, boosted in part by soft oil prices, a stronger U.S. economy, continued low global interest rates, and receding domestic headwinds in several large emerging markets.”
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Construction Growth Change vs MDF/PB Capacity in North America & Europe
M A R K E T S
Pointing to the Asian economies’ more relaxed tax regimes, it has been noted
that if western governments do not adjust their policies to match those of the
competitive economies in the east, there is a risk that the rest of Europe, includ-
ing countries outside the euro zone, such as the UK, could slide in the same way
that Greece has, first into stagnation and then into economic collapse. The level
of competitive challenge arising from Asia’s industrialisation and its exertion on
Western economies, has been especially strong, because of the pace of change
and the shift in life-styles in the emerging economy countries.
In China the property frenzy continues at a slightly slower pace and may
advance at an average growth of 8% during 2015, with the selling price of new
homes rising by 9% year on year. Overall rising consumer demand for interior
fitments, white goods and furniture for new homes, along with additions and
upgrades will present the largest increase in demand for PB, plus a major
contribution to a higher consumption of MDF/HDF. Nominal price peaks over
the next two to three years will almost certainly arise. In inflation-adjusted
terms, prices between 2013-2015 may however not reach earlier levels. On
a European level, as excess manufacturing capacity in PB and MDF/HDF falls,
then price rises are to be expected, especially in PB, where low profitability
has existed for a number of years.
The declining ‘economic’ situation of the panels industry for several
years prior to 2014 has marked an ongoing extension of previous years’ weak
performance and rising levels of corporate indebtedness within the industry.
This has directly and indirectly caused some plant closures, some company
internal restructure, a focus on M&A and divisional company plant sales, and
similar financial/commercial arrangements, notes KPMG. It has also leveraged
a general refocus by companies on expanding, or moving into PB, as an
alternative, or an additional material in which sub-continental installed capac-
ity is at a lower level compared with fibreboard.
Demand for PB is forecast to increase during the next five years and
particularly in countries such as Malaysia, Turkey, Vietnam, Brazil, Russia,
Indonesia, and India. These regions are already advancing with new manu-
facturing facilities to meet anticipated local consumer demand. Accordingly,
the combined global consumption of FB & PB panel materials based on a
consensus at the New Delhi World Consultation on Wood-based Panels in
February 2015 indicated that wood-based panels consumption was likely to
rise to between 225-310mn m³ by 2017 if major industrial nations recover
from the current economic recession within a year or so and resume the
growth levels of the 1960s and early 1970s.
However, the realism behind projected demand figures of such magni-
tude would be ultra-dependent on many internal and external influences on
company future viability in what has come to be viewed as a growingly ‘fickle’
global market place. Interestingly, the current stage of development in the
product life-cycle demand curve in the FB sector, has seemingly reached a
point of sufficient interest to attract investment equity and future’s investors.
As to the suggestion that overall MDF/PB consumption could reach a
level of 225-310 mn m³ by 2017, such a level would represent a staggering
increase based on current (2014-2015) aggregated engineered achievable
production capacity, which stands at 124mn m³ on a world-wide MDF scale
and 120mn m³ of PB. Such a rise in consumption over such a short time-
scale would be unprecedented and based on current observable economic
development strength, must be viewed as unachievable in practical terms if
only from an aspect of raw materials availability.
Economic recovery and expanding urbanisation is supporting demand for infrastructure in its widest forms almost everywhere, although 75% of management respondents to a KPMG global survey, indicated that it could take between two and five years to see a real industry upswing. Interestingly, 71% of management consider that growth will be organic, rather than through M&A. Yet the current stage of development in the product life-cycle demand curve in the FB sector, has begun to attract investment equity and future’s investors. Such firms have been waiting in the financial side lines and recently have begun to acquire equity holdings in some of the sounder status panel producer companies.
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India Panel Industryat a Crucial Stage
Mr. Sajjan Bhajanka, President, Federation of Indian Plywood and Panel
Industries has said that “Most of the wood based industries in general and
plywood and panel industries in particular are passing through a very crucial
stage for their existence.”
“Raw material insecurity, misperception about the wood-based panel
industries in the mind of policy makers on one hand and continuous increas-
ing demand for the panel products on the other hand has brought this sector
to crossroad.”
“In a country like ours (India) meeting consumer needs for wood-based
panel products in a sustainable manner becomes a much more important
issue and challenging task where still more than half of the wood produced
is used as firewood. “The panel industry embraces plywood, veneer, particle-
board and MDF manufacturers.”
“The demand projections for wood raw materials for these products has
been estimated to be nearly 30mn m³ by 2020. “The government policy
through the liberalisation of the import of logs is not considered a long term
viable solution to support growth of the industry and also cannot be taken
into consideration for long term investment decisions.”
The Indian wood-based industry today consists of more than 2,000 mills
of various capacities and supports the livelihood of nearly 6 million people.
A serious drawback in the planned development of raising plantations to meet
the requirements is the lack of integration between forestry and the wood-
based industry sector, which has resulted in diffused programmes of planning
and development.” A document containing the following points was handed
over by the Chairman of FIPPI, to the Honourable Minister of Environment,
Government policy relating to the import of logs is not considered a long term viable solution to support growth of the (panels) industry nor long term investment decisions.
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Forests and Climate Change on the occasion of the latest Annual General
Meeting of IPIRTI held in Delhi.”
Suggested measures:Increase investments in plantations through the involvement of the private
sector and support from financial institutions and simplifying the procedures
for the sanction of financial support to the farmers and tree growers.
Devise a strategy for improving productivity of agro-forestry and social
forestry on degraded lands through technology based plantations and making
available institutional credit on softer terms and promoting involvement of
private sector in tree plantation activities.
Remove restrictions on felling, land holdings, land tenure for tree cultiva-
tion and timber transit rules and marketing to improve the efficiency of wood
production and better price realisation by the growers as well as increased
supply for the Industry. Market mechanism should be developed to ensure
reasonable prices to private timber producers.
The Federation of Plywood and Panel Industries has noted that the fibre-
based panels industry faces a survival risk as log supplies become tighter.
As a consequence some of the larger plywood producers have established
manufacturing plants in Myanmar and Malaysia, with more companies pre-
paring to follow suit.
India: Rising Demand for Panel BoardsIn keeping with its election manifesto the new Government in India has
begun implementing stalled infrastructure, power generation, road building,
port and mining projects. This has invigorated business sentiment and as a
result the weakness in the wood panel sector during the past few years is
now coming to life.
India’s annual fibre-based panels market is estimated at Rs.200bn
comprising 75% plywood and 25% PB and MDF. At present, domestically
manufactured panels compete with imported thick plywood prices, which
have been rising.
Local manufacturers have been improving the surface quality of boards
and are producing higher density panels to permit accurate routing. Indian
manufacturers are also supplying laminated panels in a variety of designs and
colours to compete with imported surfaced plywood.
Domestic pre-laminated PB is now produced by the mills and this elimi-
nates the need for onsite lamination, which would almost double the cost of
each panel. Additionally, the lower raw material cost of PB & MDF compared
with plywood is helping the revival in demand for Indian mills.
The fibre-based panels industry faces a survival risk as log supplies become tighter
Lack of integration between forestry and the wood-based panel industry sector has resulted in diffused programmes of planning and development
MDF and PB accounted for 14.9% of the total wood panel market of Rs235bn
and were valued at Rs35bn in the financial years 2013. MDF production gen-
erated a CAGR of 6%-8% during the past five years. MDF production is
totally controlled by companies in the organised segment. Of the industry
notes Bloomberg. The reason is basically the high cost involved in building
an MDF plant, which restricts competition from the unorganised segment.
Domestic production meets ca 65% of the demand, with the balance being
met via imports.
The furniture industry in India currently valued at around Rs750bn and
is dominated by the unorganised segment accounting for the rest. A clear
shift in consumers’ preference towards branded products has however,
led to a decline in the market share of the unorganised segment in favour
of the organised segment which has seen a 15%-20% growth over the
past five years. Plywood, due to its versatile nature is a prime raw material
for making furniture and accounts for almost 60% of the total wood panels
market. Laminates/veneers and MDF usage account for close to 28% and
15% respectively. The unorganised segment effectively dominates the ply-
wood production with an 80% share in a market that is growing at a slower
pace of 6%-8%. A shift of 8%-10% is expected from plywood to MDF over
the next three-four years.
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