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PB plant in Chenzhou in October 2017. This represents a tremendously intense period of investment for the company, covering 10 new mills in just six years. Further Super PB mills going live in 2022 included Laohekou Dingfeng, Xiangyang (first board April 2022) and Guangxi Fenglin, Nanning, (first board March 2022). Two other Chinese particleboard mill installations have now been added to the main listings – Ao si Bei En Decoration Material Co and Shengchang New Material Co, both with the same capacity – 132,000m3
with Yalian as the main technology supplier. One further project completed in
September 2023 is by A Beautiful Family Plate Making Co Ltd (BFP), Guangxi, China. This is worthy of a mention, as it is a Fine OSB plant, with the product featuring surfaces layers of PB and a core of OSB. This will not be added to the listings as gauging production capacity of the PB element of the plant would be extremely difficult.
ASIA
Other parts of Asia seeing activity on the particleboard investment front include Thailand.
In March 2023, the Metro Ply Group produced the first board on its new Siempelkamp particleboard plant at the Surat Thani site. The company now operates five Siempelkamp plants. Metro Ply Group is rated to be Southeast
Asia’s largest particleboard producer, now operating a total of four PB plants (three made by Siempelkamp). They are located in Sai Noi/Nontaburi, Kanchanaburi and now Surat Thani, Thailand’s eighth largest city. The new mill features a ContiRoll press line in 8ft x 40.4m format. Siempelkamp subsidiary Büttner supplied the dryer and the energy plant, while Pallmann, the size reduction specialist in the Siempelkamp Group, contributed the size reduction machines.
The greenfield project is utilising the abundance of rubberwood plantations in Thailand as raw material feedstock. Elsewhere in Thailand, Egger has made a
move to strengthen its position in Asia by acquiring a 25.1% minority stake in the Thai wood-based material manufacturer Panel Plus Co Ltd. The European panels giant is strategically expanding its presence and sees Asia as a significant growth market. The company had been considering expanding in the region for some time. Panel Plus Co was founded in 1990 and today produces a wide range of wood-based
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Top: Australian Panels’ Mount Gambier facility Centre: CenturyPly PB product
Above: Dieffenbacher EVOsteam at Masisa’s particleboard plant in Cabrero, Chile
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