world news - 23.04.2008
Solidwood flooring shows strong growth in Guangdong Province
According to
statistics, sales of commercial housing reached 62.20 million m² in
2007 in Guangdong Province,
up 20% in the last year. According to a survey of 113 wood flooring
enterprises, the production capacity of the province was 151.94 million
m², up 16.6% in the last year. Of this total, solid wood flooring was
24.55 million m² (a 9.32% rise), solid wooden composite flooring was
53.41 million m² (up 40.52%), laminated flooring was 72.01
million m² (4.35%) and bamboo flooring was 1.92 million m² (103%).
There were 820 thousand hectares of fast growing eucalypt plantations
with growing stock of 20.63 million m³ in the province. Eucalypts were
the material base for most solid wood composite flooring and had
helped the province’s share of production grow at a rate of 20% in the
last three years.
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- — Tools, techniques to estimate timber volume
- — Brazilian pine sawlog prices were up despite lower demand in the 4Q
- — Russian export tax opens log markets for local
- — Timber Imports Not Slowed By New Russian Customs Rules
