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Stay up to date with the latest Asia updates from the global wood industryAiming for domination Yunnan Yung Lifa Forest Co Ltd was established with a very specific goal in mind. That goal involved utilising bamboo in a completely new way, requiring some revolutionary technology. Mike Botting visited the company’s pilot plant in Mangshi, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province
Russian OSB industry about to be transformed The Russian OSB industry is on the brink of big changes, due to the forthcoming commissioning of several large production facilities for OSB in the country, notably by Partner Tomsk, reports WBPI’s correspondent Eugene Gerden from Russia
How much higher can China fly?
The massive global economic stimulus provided by China in 2009-2010 began to run out of steam in 2011, but the year as a whole still showed large growth in China’s economy. As measured by GDP,...
Charged up and ready to take on the market
A company which has come through the devastation of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that destroyed seven of its factories should be well-suited to meet a challenge.
Baoshan Group Co Ltd is...
Playing the machines field, Guodong aims for a million
Construction and the processing of glass (tempering, hardening and cutting to size) formed the basis of Sichuan Guodong Construction Co Ltd?’s business.
However, in 2002 it moved into...
Luyuan goes for narrower line at Shaowu
In common with many other ‘traditional’ panel makers in China, as opposed to those who joined the industry from other backgrounds, Suichang Luyuan Wood Co Ltd started out making wet process...
Fujian Yongan Forestry (Group) Joint Stock Co Ltd was originally founded in 1994 as a timberland company, planting and selling trees in Fujian province. At that time, it was wholly owned by...
Diversification is key to Shengda’s product mix
Having started out in 1997 as a producer of laminate flooring based on bought-in imported, and then domestically-produced, HDF, Chengdu Shengda Company built its first HDF manufacturing line in...
Yingang has its sights set on market leadership
Hebei Yingang Man Made Board Co Ltd built its first panel line in 1993 in Zhengding, Hebei province. It was a Chinese-made multi-opening line with a capacity of 15,000m3/year.
Over the...
First to the market, with first-class quality
August 8, 2010 was a very significant day for Mr Cai Weijin, chairman of the board of Hubei Boayuan Group Co Ltd and general manager of its Hubei Baoyuan Wood Industry Co Ltd Jingmen panel...
WoodMac China, FurniTek China and WoodBuild China were held concurrently at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre over four days at the end of February/beginning of March.
They...
Shengda Forestry is a privately owned company founded in 1997 to produce laminate flooring. In fact, the company claims to have...
Change of direction brings new MDF maker
Baoshan Corporation, headquartered in Long menshan Town, near Chengdu in Sichuan province, has a 30-year history in metal working, mainly in...
Thin board the key for Fuyang Huqian
This company began its life in panel production with a wetprocess hardboard production line in Chunan, Zhejiang Province, in...
This company, which gained a listing on the Shanghai stock exchange in 2001, has seven subsidiaries, involved in glass (its first and currently its biggest business venture), food processing,...
Expanding to meet the growing demand
When its cooperation arrangement with a Chinese machinery manufacturing company came to an end, Siempelkamp set up its own workshop in Wuxi, two hours’ drive from Shanghai in Jiangsu...
Baoyuan to be first in race to make OSB
Hubei Baoyuan Group Co Ltd was established in 1970 as a state-owned coal mining company. Partially privatised in 2000, the company diversified into panel production with its first MDF line in...
Four lines running and more to come
There are four factories producing MDF in the Dong Zheng Group, with each having a different name according to where it is located.
The first, Guangxi Dong Zheng Wood, is located...
Asmall, government-owned sawmill beside the Oujiang river in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, formed the foundation for the Lishui Oak company in the early 1980s.
In the middle of that decade, it...