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WORLD Existing plants, December 2022 000m3 Country


Company Fomanat


Khazar Choub Kimia Choub Lohe Sabz


Mansour Industrial Group Melamine Sazeh Noghteh Pakchoub


Parko (Aria Pooya) Pars Neopan Rahasan


Vina Fiber Pakistan Al-Noor Sugar Mills Ltd


Crystal Board Mills (Pvt) Ltd Pershawar Particleboard ZRK Industries (Pvt) Ltd


Sri Lanka Merbok Total Sri Lanka project of 350,000m3 at Alagoas is still on


‘stand-by’ for now due to current market conditions and so remains in our future project listing. As reported last year, Asperbras (producing now under the MDF brand name GreenPlac) is an industrial and agro business group, located in Água Clara, Mato Grosso do Sul state – a complete newcomer to panel production, but serious. The company is using its eucalyptus plantations to feed its 250,000m3


America. Moving on, Indústria de Compensados Sudati Ltda of Palmas wants to further enlarge its MDF capacity. Capacity planned is suggested at 360,000m3


. These investment projects now envisaged


by Guararapes and Sudati will significantly accelerate the expansion of Brazilian MDF/ HDF capacity, which had been proceeding at a somewhat subdued pace in the past two to three years.


Siempelkamp ContiRoll line and this line was up and running back in 2018. According to Greenplac, the facility can now produce approximately 300,000m³ annually. A new short-cycle press was also installed during the last year, increasing annual laminating capacities by more than 70,000m³. The group has plans to add a second line at


a cost of US$24m – with a capacity of about 230,000m3


making a potential combined capacity of 460,000m3


capacity listing.


Brazilian Guararapes also placed orders for a new and additional MDF line. This third MDF production line is expected to almost double output of the Caçador works. Like the second plant delivered in 2015, Siempelkamp will be supplying all the main components from the debarker through to the 9ft x 48.7m ContiRoll Generation 9 press and the packaging section. Siempelkamp says the plant is designed for an annual capacity of around 520,000m³ per year, or 1,500m³ per day. The start-up due in mid-2023 will boost Guararapes’ total MDF capacity by 90% to around 1.1 million m³. Guararapes says it believes this will give it the biggest combined MDF facility in South


when its forest base grows more, . The project remains in our future


Along with increasing their raw board capacity, several Brazilian MDF/HDF manufacturers are also set to invest in coating operations. Wemhöner had previously delivered a short cycle press to Berneck’s facility in Curitibanos in April 2020 under the terms of an older contract. Assembly work has now restarted after being delayed by the pandemic. Wemhöner has received more orders from the Brazilian MDF/HDF industry via Inserco Industrie Service GmbH, headquartered in Viersen, Germany, over the past few months. Besides Guararapes and Sudati, Floraplac Industrial MDF Ltda, based in Paragominas, Pará, has also ordered a short-cycle press. With all these great projects in mind it is important to note that Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country by area with a currently installed MDF capacity of 7,552,000m3


. Its


forest sector now comes under the common umbrella of IBA, the Association for the Brazilian Tree Industry. We would particularly like to thank IBA for its help in updating this part of our report. In Paraguay, the modest project to build Paraguay’s first MDF plant, a 55,000m3


Coronel Oviedo (department of Caaguazú), was given the green light by the Industry and


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Group


Location Foman, Gilan


Noor, Mazandaran Gorgan, Golestan Shushtar, Khuzestan Lowsham, Gilan Azarshahr, Tabriz Semnan, Semnan


Hussainabad, Khuzestan Rasht, Gilan


Tonekabon, Mazandaran Behshahr, Mazandaran Rasht, Gilan Total Iran


Moro, Nawabshah Haripur Hazara


Mardan Total Pakistan


m3


/year


120,000 60,000 115,000 130,000 250,000 50,000


100,000 120,000 250,000 90,000 100,000 130,000


3,220,000 52,000 30,000 50,000 210,000 342,000 180,000 180,000


Commerce Ministry there. It was planned by Agroindustria del Paraguay SA as its first venture in panel manufacturing and it took advantage of fiscal incentive legislation for national and foreign investors to assist its investment of US$6.7m in imported machinery. The mill, which we understand is running well, is in the main listing. Paraguay’s domestic demand for MDF is also partially satisfied by MDF imports from Brazil and from China.


In Chile, installed capacity remains at 1,155,000m3


and there is no new capacity


expansion on MDF seen at present. Arauco (Chile) has continued to expand its panel products global reach (including MDF). Production of MDF also continues in individual mills and facilities in Columbia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela and we have no new or specific information to report at this time. Consumption of MDF in South America


overall (post Covid-19) is projected to increase continually out to 2023/24/25 and most of this will be in Brazil, which will be consuming more than 70% of all MDF in South America by then. Consumption will also expand over time in other countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and other non-producing South American countries, providing strong export demand regionally within the continent, as well as overseas internationally, particularly to the US.


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REST OF THE WORLD Australia has remained one of the strongest performing advanced economies in the world over the past decade. Economic production has shifted from a dominant mining and


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