26 | Focus on OSB: Rest of the World
developments.
Swiss Krono has shelved its Sharya OSB project in Russia due to the Ukraine conflict so this project has now been removed from the list of future capacity. The supplier managed to find an alternative project for the ordered press. A Russia project completed in 2022 was the Monolit-Story OSB mill (Latat brand) in Tomsk. The complete OSB line is running with a continuous 2.65m x 30m press. IMAL- PAL Group supplied the entire green field plant, starting from the strander through to the automatic store. This 250,000m3
plant
has now been moved to the main listing. Interestingly, the most recently available
UNECE Market Review stats say the value of OSB exports from the Russian Federation almost tripled from US$71m in 2020 to US$207m in 2021. The top ten importing partners accounted for 80.4% of OSB exports by value. China, Chile, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which accounted for 27.8% of OSB exports (by value) in 2021, are the trading partners among the top ten who will allow imports of OSB from the Russian Federation in Q4, 2022 and onwards. Publicly available information suggests
Russia’s production of OSB grew by 15% in 2021.
Visibility on other known Russia OSB mill planned investments planned is currently poor due to the Ukraine conflict and it’s possible some have been shelved. Kronospan’s OSB mill project at Rivne in
Western Ukraine, which follows an already completed PB line at the same site, has been progressing. Situated in the west of the country and largely away from the war zone, there are photos of construction on the website of
project architects AMBK. The project is listed there as having a capacity of 1.3 million m3 / year, though this does seem high and we await further clarification. Delays due to the conflict make it difficult to estimate a completion date.
ASIA
Chinese wood-based panel producer A Beautiful Family Plate Making Co Ltd (BFP) has ordered a Fine OSB plant from Dieffenbacher for its plant in Guangxi, China. Installation of BFP’s new plant is scheduled for the second quarter of 2023. The first board is to be produced in the autumn, 2023.
Dieffenbacher is to supply everything from chip flaking to raw board handling. The contract includes the dryer, screens, particle preparation and material recovery, glue preparation and dosing, gluing system, forming station and forming line, CPS+ continuous press system and electrics and plant automation. The plant will be able to produce 500,000m3
of Fine OSB per year.
“Fine OSB is increasingly popular in China,” said Matthias Rübsam, area sales director at Dieffenbacher. “The lower cost of the raw material makes
OSB an economical alternative to plywood for almost every application. Fine OSB, however, overcomes traditional OSB’s poor laminating capability, caused by its uneven board surface.” In Fine OSB, the OSB core layer is covered
top and bottom by layers of particleboard to give a better structure to the top surface. This enables further processing, including laminating or coating on both sides with melamine or phenolic paper in a short-cycle press.
Dieffenbacher has been working on a
further plant for its customer Wanhua Ecoboard in Lankao, Henan Province. The Fine OSB project saw the first board produced on March 31, 2022 on a CPS+ measuring 8.5ft x 33m, with a 250,000 m³/ year annual capacity. This has now been added to the main listing. WBPI is aware of a number of other Fine
OSB / OSB projects in the Asia/Asia Pacific region received during 2022 but specific details have not yet been confirmed by equipment suppliers. As a result, we expect OSB capacity in China to increase in the future.
Siempelkamp said while it had seen some decrease in market demand from Asia in 2023, it reported some promising projects at an early stage which might come to fruition in the second half of the year. IMAL-PAL Group has received a request for
a complete OSB plant to be installed in Asia and it is currently in the process of preparing the proposal.
SOUTH AMERICA & OCEANIA There has been some activity in South America - Paneles Arauco is believed to be talking to equipment suppliers about an OSB mill investment in Cholguán, Chile. The company currently operates an MDF mill at the location.
Annual production capacity will be
approximately 300,000m³. And lastly, far away in New Zealand, it looks like the country may be going back into OSB production with plans by Laminex New Zealand to invest in a new facility. The mill is planned at Taupo, with capacity thought to be around 400,000m3
. This
project has been added to our list of future capacity, despite no timetable yet being available.
Above: Luli Group’s Fine OSB lines in Shouguang, China. Photo: Dieffenbacher WBPI | April/May 2023 |
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