22 | Focus on Particleboard Part 2
Others include Guangxi Fusui Runhong
Wood Industry Co Ltd adding a 670m3 daily capacity press in Guangxi, Fusui, while Xinjiang Tianhui Kangbai Agricultural Ecological Technology Co LTD is adding a 1,000m3
daily capacity plant in Xinjiang,
Akesu, and Bazhou Ruitong Wood Industry Co Ltd has a 450m3
daily capacity project in
Xinjiang, Bazhou. For 2026, Galloway Group (Sichuan) New Materials Co Ltd (Galloway 7) is to build a 1,630m3
project in Leshan, Sichuan.
These 2025-2026 projects are in the list of future capacity. Moving on from this very large update
from Yalian, Dieffenbacher is also active on the Chinese market, with Lelin Group’s Super PB line in Guiping producing its first board in the second half of 2024, with a 120,000m3 annual capacity. Lelin operates a total of four wood-based panel plants with a combined capacity of 1.2 million m³ per year. Lelin shifted its focus to particleboard and Super Particleboard in 2022, as furniture manufacturers increasingly used these types of panels more often than MDF for furniture production. The production process of SPB mixes standard core-layer flakes with slender, long core-layer flakes, enabling a board density up to 30 kg/m³ lower than usual. This leads to substantial savings in raw materials such as wood, resin, and electrical and thermal energy without compromising board properties. The company previously converted the
Chongzuo line from MDF to SPB production. A further two SPB projects are ongoing for Dieffenbacher in China – Yantai G Health New Material Technology Co and Yuzhou Dingfeng New Materials Technology. We understand these are not fully operational yet. Another project in our future capacity listings is Guangxi Xiangsheng Household Material Technology Co Ltd. This project involves Siempelkamp and the delivery of a 600,000m3
super strength particleboard
line in the Xiangsheng High-End Green Household Furnishing Industrial Park. The project was due to go into operation in Q1, 2025, so this will be added to our main listings for our survey report next year. The scope of supply comprises the
core components and the entire process technology of a wood-based panel plant. This includes the latest generation of knife ring flakers, automated setting and sharpening robots, a knife ring washing cabin, also dryers, drum screens, double stream mills, oscillating screens, blenders, and the forming and press line with the continuous ContiRoll Generation 9i.
INDIA India has been one of the top growth spots
for panel product capacity developments in recent years, as leading players increase their capacities.
Analysts expect India’s economic growth
to be around 6.7% to 6.9% in the 2025 fiscal year and 6.5% to 6.9% in 2026. The country’s GDP grew 7.8% year over year in the April to June quarter of fiscal 2025. Private consumption rose, retail sales grew
and Government spending also rebounded, with tax cuts helping the economy. In the last issue of WBPI, our
correspondent Eugene Gerden reported that the ongoing supply of cheap Russian oil had become a big factor contributing to the growth of the Indian construction sector. Growth of wood-based panels demand is
expected to rise considerably in the coming years, and we can expect to see several more capacity expansion projects realised. MDF is the fastest-growing segment of the India panelboard market, with demand for the product and particleboard steadily growing. The growth is expected to take place partly at the expense of plywood use and consumption.
Our first mention is a project by Greenlam South Ltd, which we have previously had in our list of future capacity. The first board was produced in on its new high-end particleboard plant from Dieffenbacher on January 23, 2025, in Andhra Pradesh, India. We have included this in the main listings for 2024 due to the timing of the plant’s opening at the start of 2025. The plant, which has an annual production capacity of 265,000m3
, is one of the most
modern panel plants in India. In addition to the CPS+ continuous press with press emission control system, the large Dieffenbacher scope of supply for this project ranged from the forming station and forming line with prepress to the raw board handling system and dryer. Also included were the EVORIS digitalization solution, engineering, electrics and plant automation for the complete plant and the highly flexible Lukki raw board storage system. With more than 5,000 employees, a
network of over 14,000 channel partners and a production capacity of 15.62 million sheets of HPL per annum, Greenlam is among the world’s top three producers of laminates. The new PB mill represents the company’s third production unit in India and cements its ambition to become a leading wood-panel producer in India. Century Plyboards commenced the first board production of its particleboard line located at Tamil Nadu, Chennai, earlier in 2025. It has a capacity 264,000m3
per year
based on main press supplier Yalian’s quoted capacity of 800m3
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methodology (explained in our footnotes at the end of the survey).
The press measures 8ft x 20m and this project will be added to the main listings next year. According to the company, the plant is
expected to meet the growing demand for high-quality engineered wood panels across India and will allow the export of part of the output to global markets. Sudama Wood Panel opened an MDF mill in Sitarganj in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand during 2024, and there has been talk of a potential particleboard project from the company as well. Until more concrete information emerges, we will refrain from adding to our future capacity listings. We also have two further projects to report in the region.
The first is news of the first wood-based panels producer in Bangladesh. Industry publication EUWID reported recently that Fervent Multiboard had established a particleboard line in the Jamalput Economic Zone, with the first board produced in May. EUWID also reported that machinery installed was relocated from a Vanachai plant in Thailand, with the main press being a Siemplekamp line. No information on capacity is currently available, and we will update this in due course. And in Pakistan - ZRK INDUSTRIES (PVT)
LTD is adding a large PB line. Press supplier Yalian has confirmed a large 3,000m3
daily
capacity and a 52.3m long line was due for start- up in Peshawar in 2025. ZRK is the largest panelboard producer in Pakistan and the new mill adds a significant modern new mill to the country.
SE ASIA AND OTHER GLOBAL REGIONS Thailand has been a top panel producer for many years and one of the leading companies is Metro Ply Group. Metro Ply Group is one of the largest
wood-based panel producers in Southeast Asia and the region’s largest particleboard producer, operating a total of four particleboard plants.
The Surat Thani PB mill went online in 2023, with a production capacity of approximately 450,000m3
on a Siempelkamp ContiRoll in 8ft
x 40.4m line. The project represented Metro’s fifth Siempelkamp plant. It also has plans to expand the Nonthaburi PB line with an additional 220,000m3 Indonesia’s largest MDF manufacturer,
Sumatera Prima Fibreboard (SPF), headquartered in Jakarta, has entered the particleboard business by purchasing a complete CEBRO particleboard and Super Particleboard (Super PB) plant from Dieffenbacher for its site in Indralaya. This
capacity.
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