South America - Page 2
Stay up to date with the latest South America updates from the global wood industryTwo opt for China The move to MDF has emerged as producers in Brazil’s still large, but fragmented, plywood industry have seen their profits shrink over recent years, mainly thanks to a devalued US dollar....
Masisa in front
Brazil, Latin America’s biggest country, and its most prized marketplace, remains the jewel in the crown for the region’s expanding wood based panel makers.
That is one reason why the country...
Works of art Chilean brothers Horacio and Rodrigo Fernandez and their company Polincay have introduced a breath of competitive fresh air to Chile’s panel industry, for years dominated by two giant national...
A future in fibre
Often considered dated and environmentally unfriendly, wet process hardboard barely features in today’s global portfolio of wood based panel producers.
Except, that is, among some large panel...
New members join the club Nowhere is the Brazilian market's very good health more apparent than in the MDF segment, where Brazilian producers, among them particleboard suppliers, have lined up to announce a string of fresh...
Masisa plans to add capacity and value The Chilean Masisa group, already with board mills in five countries, aims to boost its current 300,000m3/year Brazilian capacity to feed the market's voracious appetite for MDF. Masisa...
Making use of a valuable resource
Another of Chile’s big wood pulp corporations has joined the South American wood based panels club with the recent decision of Empresas CMPC SA to launch its first pine plywood mill.
The...
At a time when Brazilian particleboard makers have been reluctant to boost production capacity in an uncertain market, leading panel producer Satipel Industrial SA has quietly continued...
Despite economic uncertainties in Brazil, a row with its local business partner and a lack of its own forest reserves in the country, Sonae Group’s long term commitment to its Tafisa Brasil...
For many reasons, among them economic, cultural, and climatic, Brazil is an extremely unlikely market in which to find laminate flooring catching on.
Indeed, even the manufacturers of such...
In a year overshadowed by controversy surrounding an ambitious pulp mill plan in Valdivia, Chilean forest products giant Celulosa Arauco y Constitución has, in contrast, enjoyed growing success...
