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China completed 20 new particleboard production lines in 2015, adding new production capacity totalling 3 million m3. Of all the new production lines, 12 of them are continuous press lines with 2.24 million m3 of total production capacity representing 74% of the newly invested production capacity. These statistics are contained within Wood Markets’ Special Report: China Particleboard Industry Development.
At the end of 2015, China operated about 338 particleboard production lines totaling 19.7 million m3 of production capacity. Of all production lines, 23 of them are continuous press lines, or 26% of particleboard production capacity in China.
Annual production capacity per line from the continuous press lines averaged 223,000m3, almost 3.8 times the average production capacity per line of the China's average particleboard mill. info@woodmarkets.com
