20 | Focus on MDF Part 1: Europe & North America
Table 1: European capacity development (000m3 Total European capacity end 2022 Total European capacity end 2023 Total European capacity end 2024
Capacity 2025 and beyond Germany Russia
Homanit Slovakia Including adjustments
Europe Turkey Russia
Table 2: Changing importance of European sub-regions (000m3 End 2023 17230 9323 5022
31575
54.6 29.5 15.9 100
% End 2024 17680 9323 5446
31455
Total Canada Total Mexico Total US
Table 3: North American capacity development (000m3 End 2022 1324 823
Total North America
Capacity 2025 and beyond Canada Mexico US
Total North America
3671 5818
Great Plains MDF Inc Arauco Zitácuaro
Roseburg Forest Products )
End 2023 1324 792
3671 5787
End 2024 1324 792
3421 5537
849 300 310
6996 )
54.4 28.8 16.8 100
% 2025 + 17600 9323 5466
32389 %
54.3 28.8 16.9 100
Yildiz Entegre, Vladimir Lesplitinvest AVIC Forestry Monolit Stroy Kronospan
)
30,331 31,575 31,455
Loshein Tomsk
tba 424 60
tba tba 450
32,389
optimise their installations and look for continual production refinements and, as always, new product developments to maximise the opportunities that exist within their individual facilities. This survey continues to be published in
two parts; the second part will deal with the rest of the world outside Europe and North America and will be published in the August- September 2025 issue of WBPI. The author and the editor of WBPI remain grateful to all those organisations and manufacturers, as well as other industry professionals, who made valued contributions to help us build this narrative. We are always pleased to receive new information regarding design capacity changes at any time during the year.
EUROPEAN CAPACITY Turning to individual countries, Turkey is experiencing a lull in investments after several years. The country has seen a phenomenal period of expansion into MDF, but this has now slowed and there is currently nothing significant to comment on. Germany’s Homanit has boosted its manufacturing presence in the Baltic states by investing in €115m in Lithuania, constructing its new thin HDF production facility and this facility, we understand, became fully operational in 2024 with a capacity of 310,000m3
is now added to the main listing. The company has plants in Losheim am See, Germany (currently being modernised)
. Accordingly, this plant
Above: Kronospan is investing in the Zvolen site in Slovakia WBPI | June/July 2025 |
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