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Stay up to date with the latest Asia updates from the global wood industryVanachai's 350-acre industrial site outside the southern city of Suratthani saw its first panel production line in 1997. This took the form of a Siempelkamp ContiRoll continuous press line with...
My journey to visit a mill I have long wanted to see began with a two-hour flight from Jakarta on Java island to Balikpapan on the east coast of the island of Borneo, in the Indonesian province...
On my last visit to Indonesia at the end of 2005, it was not practicable for me to visit Sumatera Prima Fibreboard's (SPF) MDF line, but WBPI carried my interview with marketing manager Mr Tee...
We are becoming regular visitors to the Metro-Ply group of companies as it continues to add new panel manufacturing capacity to its range. In 2005 we reported on the construction of the...
Not only has SPB Panel Industries Co Ltd started up its first particleboard line, in Suratthani in southern Thailand, but this is also the company's first venture into the panel business. The...
When Ms Amporn Kanjanakumnerd, managing director of MP Particleboard, set about taking over the former STA panel production lines in 2002, she began a journey that was long and arduous, but...
The turbulent history of the former STA wood processing complex on its one square kilometre site in Hat Yai has been well-documented in WBPI over the last 10 years. Our most recent reports...
MDF industry and market in Iran
As a fairly new product in Iran’s wood based panels market, and in spite of its short period of consumption in the country, MDF is a very familiar product among Iranian consumers and every year...
Shijiazhuang may be almost unpronounceable to a westerner, but it is the capital city of Hebei province and is located three hours’ drive south west of Beijing.
Hebei Yingyang Man-Made...
With MDF/HDF continuous production lines already in production in Danyang in Jiangsu province and Fuzhou in Fujian province, Dare Global started up its third Siempelkamp-supplied line on the...
It was 10 years ago that Asia Dekor saw the market opportunities presented by the new wonder product, laminate flooring. It built its first factory to laminate bought-in HDF boards in the city...
Guangdong Weihua Holding Co Ltd is a privately-owned company, founded in 1992 and today has 12 member companies engaged in various businesses, including civil engineering, estate development,...
Robin spreads its wings in Asia
If the name Robina sounds familiar to readers, it is probably because we reported on the Robin Resources MDF and laminate flooring operations in Mentakab, Malaysia.
Founder Robin Loh is a...
Some 200km from Shanghai, Danyang is a city of around 800,000 people, located in Jiangsu province, and is famous for spectacle manufacture, but it is also unusual in having two MDF factories...
The ownership may have changed and with it the acronym for the company, but Shanghai Wood Based Panel Machinery Co Ltd, now known in short as SWPM, still claims the largest market share for MDF...
Two short years ago, in April, we visited a half-built MDF factory in Danyang City, Jiangsu Province. It produced its first board in July 2003.
It was the Dare Group’s first venture into...
Mieco Chipboard is a name that is very well known in the Asian panel industry, both for raw particleboard (chipboard) production and for its extensive valueadding facilities, having launched its...
I have good reason to remember my first visit to Robin Resources’ factory in Mentakab in Peninsula Malaysia, because it was my first visit to any mill in South East Asia.
That was back in...
Planning for a brighter future
This was WBPI’s third visit to a company which has been involved in the Thai panel manufacturing industry since 1954. Our first visit was in late 1996.
Thai Plywood Company Ltd was...
After a long period of uncertainty, the former STA factory should have two MDF and two particleboard lines up and running very soon.
As a result of a joint approach between M P...
