28 | Focus on MDF: Part 2
Summary of New Capacity (Rest of the World) 000m3 Total Capacity end 2023
Capacity due 2024 and beyond Country Australia Brazil
Company
China India
Iran
South Africa Thailand
Vietnam
Australian Panels Asperbras Sudati Ltda.
Huashi Chaoyong Tech. Century Plyboards Ltd. Greenpanel Industries Ltd. Metro Panel Industries Pvt Ltd. Arta Industrial Group 2 Melamin Sazeh 2 P.G. Bison
Kijchai Enterprise PCL Wisewoods Co. Ltd. Kim Tin Group
Mekong Wood MDF
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Capacity m3/yr Mount Gambier
000m3 90580
500 230 360 97
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Routhusuramala 230 Taluka Kadi
Mkhondo
Phetchaburi Dau Giay Phu Tho
180 300 500 275 500 247 400
400 4533
highly trade-exposed and export dependent, especially in the forest products sector, continues to respond to the global financial and economic challenges with vigour. The building and construction cycle is still forecast to shift to a strong growth path in New Zealand over the next two years. The biggest news recently from New
Zealand, was that in 2023 Daiken was to shut down its original (Customwood) MDF line in Rangiora, the largest town and seat of the Waimakariri District, in Canterbury. The decision to retire the line, which has been in production since the factory opened in 1975, follows Daiken announcing a restructure in May 2023. A second line will continue to operate,
in conjunction with Daiken’s sister plant in Southland. Volumes in the main listing have been adjusted accordingly. Looking now at North Africa, both Algeria
the production of goods and services. While housing and non-residential construction have been booming over the past decade, a moderation in residential construction activity has been seen in recent times. MDF is imported mainly from China,
Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Vietnam. The industry is highly concentrated with only three producers as per our listing and has operated at near full capacity of around 740,000m3
over the past five years.
Previously the most recent MDF line to be added was at Australian Panels, Borg Group, which is Australia’s leading producer of melamine coated boards. With its new MDF forming and press line from Siempelkamp, which became operational during the second half of 2022, this facility was previously added to the main listing. It has a ContiRoll in 8ft x 18.8m format with lightboard package and annual capacity of 100,000m3
which
bought Borgs’ MDF total capacity up to 360,000m3 However, in February 2024 came a fresh
MDF investment announcement for an 8ft x 78.6m press format. This is an additional new MDF line for Australian Panels, Borg Group, and will be the longest line ever developed
by Siempelkamp. The Australian wood-based panel producer ordered the plant from its German partner and the new MDF plant will be built at the Mount Gambier, South Australia site.
The new order for the Mont Gambier location includes the forming and press line, the gluing and the cooling and stacking lines. The scope of supply also includes three Siempelkamp subsidiaries: Pallmann supplies a drum chipper, CMC Texpan a wood chip screening system, and Büttner contributes a drying system. The raw material used will be light radiata pine – a non-porous coniferous wood that is particularly suitable as a feed material for the production of fibreboard and particleboard.
The new MDF plant will be delivered
in May 2025 and production, estimated at 500,000m3
, is scheduled to start at the
beginning of 2026. In New Zealand, MDF producers have had an installed name plate capacity for MDF of 640,000m3
.
and Egypt have joined the nations of MDF producers in recent times. The Algerian family-owned company Bigstar Sarl, via its subsidiary Panneaux d’Algérie, entrusted Dieffenbacher with its order for the delivery of a complete system for producing MDF panels at its site in El Tarf in the far north- east of the country. This first continuous press operating in North Africa has been operational since 2021, with the first commercial boards produced in March 2022. In Egypt, we also recorded previously the
but based on the current product mix and efficiencies, are apparently now producing in the region of 700,000m3 The economy in New Zealand, which is
Australia/New Zealand China
South East Asia North East Asia South America Europe
North America
Rest of World (other) TOTAL
Aggregate world capacity 2020-2023 Beyond 2024-25 2020 1360
46457 9375 2748 9486
28931 5818
5199 109374 WBPI | August/September 2024 |
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2021 1360
56850 9575 2748
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5742 121705
10086 30331 5818
6260 124256
2022 1380
57698 9935 2748
investment decision by Nile Wood SAE to add an MDF facility. Egyptian Kuwaiti Holding (EKH) said its 99.99%-owned subsidiary, would start to establish a factory to produce MDF in two phases with a total estimated investment cost of LE2bn. The greenfield site development in Sadat City, Egypt will be able to make just under 200,000m³ per year, which will climb to around 400,000m³ per year when a second production line is added later. Nile Wood initially only wanted to produce raw board after starting up the first line (with Dieffenbacher as main supplier) during the fourth quarter of 2022 (now added to the main listing). The later capacity expansion project will also entail investments in downstream processing capacities. Nile
000m3
2023 1380
58,258 10603 2748
10626 31575 5583
6885 127658
Beyond 2024/25 1880
58,355 12150 2748
11216 32449 7042
8684 134524
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