28 | Focus on MDF Part Two: Rest of the World


Summary of New Capacity (Rest of the World) 000m3 Total Capacity end 2024


Capacity due 2025 and beyond Country Australia Brazil


Company


Australian Panels -Borg Asperbras Sudati Ltda.


China India


Iran


Thailand Vietnam


Huashi Chaoyong Tech. Action-TESA Elixrr


Metro Panel Industries Pvt Ltd. Arta Industrial Group 2 Melamin Sazeh 2


Kijchai Enterprise PCL Kim Tin Group Kim Tin Group


Chon Thanh


Capacity m3/yr Oberon


000m3 92,395


650 230 360 97


Madhya Pradesh


198 tba 198 300 500


Rayong Province 500 Dau Giay


400


460 3893


operations across multiple sectors including footwear, electronics, real estate, chemicals, flex manufacturing, coal mining, and engineered wood panel products, including MDF.


Finally, a future project has been mooted for Elixrr at Madhya Pradesh (no capacity advised yet). More on this in due course. Installed MDF capacity in Pakistan increased to 540,000m3


with five


manufacturers now operational. The ZRK group is the largest wood-based panel industry in Pakistan, producing both MDF and particleboard. Having state-of-the- art plants from Europe and China, it has a distributor’s network throughout Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Its Wood Processing Division is vertically


thin-board line based on Dieffenbacher’s smart plant concept CEBRO has been added in Routhu Suramala, Andhra Pradesh with a capacity of 230,000m3


.


“Over the last two years, we have increased our MDF production capacity from 500,000m³ to 660,000m³, but the demand for our premium-quality boards produced with Dieffenbacher technology is still growing significantly,” said Shobhan Mittal, managing director, and CEO of Greenpanel. The new CEBRO line, went into operation in summer 2024, and included a fibre dryer, air grader, forming station and forming line, a CPS+ continuous press system including Press Emission Control System, the raw board handling system, and the new Wireless STS raw board storage system. This mill is now in the main listing. Century Plyboards (CenturyPly) of Kolkata in west Bengal has completed its second MDF production line at Gopavaram, Andhra Pradesh with an annual capacity planned of 314,000m3


. CenturyPly’s Gopavaram line is the second


MDF works planned in southern India. In contrast to the original plans, the greenfield project also includes creating capacity


for producing laminates, plywood, and particleboard with production operational in 2024, so is added to the main listing. The plant was supplied by the Siempelkamp Group.


Also added to the main listings is a project by Metro Panel Industries Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Taluka Kadi, Gujarat. The new MDF plant was supplied by Yalian of China, with a design capacity of 180,000m3


The company brands its MDF products as Crossbond.


Other main listing additions are the two other plants supplied by Yalian. One was to Sudama Wood Panel for its MDF production line in Uttarakhand (198,000m3


the other was for Action Tesa of New Delhi with 247,000m3


of MDF.


The Action Group, one of India’s largest business conglomerates, was established in the early 1970s under the guidance of Shri N K Aggarwal, a respected leader, visionary, and philanthropist. Its journey began with Action Shoes, a footwear brand that quickly gained popularity and became a household name. Driven by a spirit of continuous growth, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, the group has diversified its


Aggregate world capacity 2021-2024 Beyond 2025/26 2021 1360


Australia/New Zealand China


South East Asia North East Asia South America Europe


North America


Rest of World (other) TOTAL


56850 9575 2748


10086 29526 5818


5742 121705 WBPI | August/September 2025 | www.wbpionline.com


integrated, and the group consists of Pakistan’s largest, new, fully automated particleboard plant, paper lamination and impregnation lines, and also Pakistan’s largest MDF plant. An addition to our listings is the 198,000m3 MDF mill for PFB Private supplied by Yalian of China. Pakistan currently imports MDF from a variety of countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and China and is a major export market for MDF produced in Sri Lanka.


. capacity) and


SOUTH AMERICA South America continues to have an underlying demand of well over one million housing units annually which in turn, is good for MDF consumption. But elevated prices for wood raw materials, currency crises, political and economic instability as well, mean the market dynamics are often challenging.


Regarding the wood supply, in some regions of Brazil, the prices have more than doubled year-on-year and with the cellulose sector also growing, the pressure on wood availability and prices is an important issue. Players who own their own pine/ eucalyptus forests to supply the majority of their operations like Dexco, have the inflation pressure attenuated, but players who have a high dependency on third- party wood suppliers, may have some risk


2022 1380


57698 9935 2748


10086 30331 5818


6260 124256


2023 1380


58258 10603 2748


10626 31575 5583


6885 127658


2024 1380


58,258 10890 2748


10399 31455 5537


9120 129787


Beyond 2025/26 2030


58,355 12710 2748


10989 32389 7296


9516 136033


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