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Stay up to date with the latest Asia updates from the global wood industryA flooring specialist The privately-owned Chengdu Shengda company was founded 11 years ago as a laminate flooring producer, becoming the first company to manufacture that product in China. Competitor Power Dekor was already distributing laminate flooring in the country, but only imported the laminated board and then machined it in China. In the early days, Chengdu Shengda imported high density fibreboard (HDF) and laminated and machined it in its own works, but later purchased the board in China as better quality material became available from domestic panel producers.
Dare to dominate Dare Global is a diverse industrial company producing metal foil for cigarette packets, bright metal car trim and computer products. And wood based panels. The group decided to enter the panel business in 2002 with its Dare Wood division and has followed a path of unrelenting expansion ever since to become one of the biggest suppliers of panels in China - and the world.
Going for a dozen Jiangsu Changshu Dong Fang Corporation Ltd, a government owned company, built its first MDF line in 1995. Located in Changshu City, Jiangsu province, that 15,000m3 a year single-opening line was purchased from Shanghai Wood Based Panel Machinery Co Ltd (SWPM) and is still in operation today. In 1999, the company built its second MDF line, from the same machinery supplier, but with a multi-opening press and annual capacity of 60,000m3. The third MDF line, built in 2000, had another SWPM multi-opening press, with a slightly larger annual capacity of 80,000m3, and was the first of a series of annual additions to the company's capacity. It was built in Hongze, Jiangsu.
Green River Panels (Thailand) Co Ltd, part of the Green River Wood and Lumber Group, is a new venture for its long-established parent company, which has always specialised in furniture...
Under the leadership of its young and dynamic chief executive JC Kuo, the Evergreen Group has risen from a small wood based business started by Mr Kuo's father over 30 years ago to an...
Founded in 1988 by Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King, Subur Tiasa Holdings began by making veneer and plywood. Over the years, the group diversified into logging, particleboard manufacture, sawn...
The long history of the former STA wood processing complex in Hat Yai has been well-documented in this magazine over the past 10 years or more. Last year we introduced readers to the new...
We have charted the story of a massive panel production complex in Hat Yai, southern Thailand, for about the last 11 years - most of which have been turbulent. However, as we reported in WBPI...
It was back in 1996 that Mr Tenson Yoong built his first particleboard production line; a single-opening 2.5x22m Raute press with Schenck forming station. That line was intended to be the first...
Offering a local service The rapidly expanding market for continuous panel production lines in China has prompted German complete line supplier Dieffenbacher to build its own workshop in the country, trading as...
Ready for the market At a time when many commentators were saying that the MDF boom in China was over and the future was in particleboard production, Asia Dekor decided to build a continuous particleboard line in...
Founded on furniture Jilin Forest Industry Co Ltd has always specialised in particleboard, with only one of its seven mills making MDF. The company bearing this name was not in fact started until September 1998,...
Thick panel a speciality Dare Global produces a wide range of products, from cigarette packet silver paper and filters to car trim to computer products and entered the panel business in 2002 with two Chinese-made MDF...
Eleventh line for Dongdun Jiangsu Dongdun began its journey in the MDF industry at a time when it was a relatively new panel product in China, and one which the company's founders felt had a bright future. Unlike many of...
A natural step to MDF The city of Shouguang, in Shandong province, was the location chosen for Chenming's first paper mill, which went into production in 1958. Not much happened in the company until 1987, when the...
upbeat mood at shanghai show The three concurrent exhibitions were held between March 20-23 in three halls at the Pudong expo grounds, although one of those 'halls' was a temporary marquee-type tent structure outside the main...
Weihua aims for the top 10 As part of a wide range of industrial activities, the MDF business of Guangdong Weihua Holding Co Ltd has assumed increasing importance in the portfolio of this privately-owned group - which was...
Right beside the Mahakam river sits the extensive veneer based products factory of Sumalindo Lestari Jaya (SLJ). That river provides the factory's lifeline as logs are floated from its...
Right beside the wide and majestic Mahakam river sits the extensive veneer based products factory of Sumalindo Lestari Jaya (SLJ). Founded in 1980 as a natural forest concession holder and...
When Green River Panels (Thailand) Co Ltd produces its first particleboard panel in Songkhla province in the third quarter of this year, it will also be producing the first panel product the...
