The average price of imported timber has dropped, and China’s timber imports have tightened again!
According to the data of the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China, as of October 2022, China’s import trade volume of timber and wood products has accumulated to 100.595 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 11.7%; Imports of timber and wood products reached 47.79 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of […]
What is Particle Board and what is it’s manufacturing process?
What is Particle Board? Particle board, also known as chipboard or low-density fiberboard, is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded. Particle board is often confused with oriented strand board (OSB) (also known as flakeboard, or waferboard), a different type of […]
Four ways distinguish good quality plywood from bad quality.
What is Plywood? Plywood is a three-layer or multi-layer board-like material that is made of wood sections that are peeled into veneers or sliced into thin wood, and then glued with adhesives. Usually, odd-numbered veneers are used, and adjacent layers of veneers are used. The fiber directions are glued perpendicular to each other. Plywood is […]
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) Characteristics, Properties and Applications
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is a high-strength engineered wood produced by bonding multiple veneer veneers layer by layer using adhesives. LVL was developed to use new species and smaller trees that cannot be used to make solid sawn timber. LVL is a cost-effective and sustainable building material that provides high structural strength and reliability when used in structural applications.
Inventory of plywood production distribution in China
Plywood is the main type of wood-based panel in China. Because of plywood’s high utilization rate of wood, strong decoration and high tolerance, it is widely used in furniture, home furnishing, aircraft, packaging and many other fields. The regional distribution of plywood production in China is uneven, mainly concentrated in East China and South China. […]
China’s import of Russian plywood has increased by 1.5 times, becoming a unique “corridor” for the supply of wood products in the western market
China becomes gateway for Russian plywood to Western markets The company “Russian Forest Information” told RBC newspaper that from January to September 2022, the delivery of plywood from Russia to China will increase by 1.5 times. Information Office Manager Pavel Chasin pointed out that due to the imposition of sanctions, China has become a unique […]
In 2025, the global plywood market sales revenue will reach 84.2 billion US dollars
The plywood market all over the world still has a bright future. Plywood is a three-layer or multi-layer board material that is made of wood segments into veneers or sliced into veneers, and then glued with adhesives, usually with odd layers of veneers, in which the wood grains are rotated to each other up to […]
Global wood consumption may reach 3.1 billion cubic meters in 2030
The global timber trade this year is not very smooth due to the high global inflation and the epidemic, but the total transaction value of various countries is relatively considerable in the first three quarters of this year. The slowdown in global timber demand began to show in the fourth quarter. For example, the US construction industry continued to decline, the UK significantly slowed down its imports of hardwood products, and the production of African countries such as Gabon also decreased due to log bans and exporting countries. and decline.
What are the 4 reasons plywood glue doesn’t stick and cracks?
In the current panel furniture, almost all the furniture needs to use the board product, and different types of boards have different physical properties. In furniture panels, all panels will face such a problem: the problem of glue. Glue cracking is a very important factor affecting the quality of the board, and the quality of […]
What’s the point of Russia’s Putin order to restrict or ban the export and import of certain products and raw materials in 2022?
According to Reuters, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently ordered restrictions or bans on the export and import of certain products and raw materials in 2022. There are currently more than 200 products banned from export, including forestry products and equipment, technology, telecommunications, medical, automotive, agricultural, electrical and technical equipment, containers, trains, rail vehicles and locomotives, […]