Particleboard is mainly processed from plantation wood or non-wood plant fiber materials, and is used in furniture manufacturing, decoration, customized home, packaging and other applications. Particleboard manufacturing realizes the efficient use of low-quality wood raw materials and meets the growing needs of people for a better life. With the rise of the custom home industry, particleboard is more widely used, and the production energy consumption of particleboard is relatively low, the production process is environmentally friendly and easy to control and other industrial characteristics, so that its development potential and advantages are prominent.
Market demand accelerated capacity expansion
In 2017, China's particleboard entered the first round of rapid development stage. In that year, more than 55 new production lines were built or under construction nationwide, with an additional capacity of 9.05 million cubic meters, an increase of 43 percent year-on-year. By 2019, China's particle board production capacity will reach 38.25 million cubic meters.
Due to the concentrated release of production capacity in a short period of time, the particleboard market immediately entered an adjustment period. From 2019 to 2022, China's particleboard production capacity will be maintained at about 40 million cubic meters. In 2019, there were 438 production lines of particleboard in China; In 2022, the national production capacity has not changed significantly, but the average annual output capacity of a single line has increased from 87,000 cubic meters to 132,000 cubic meters, and the industrial transformation and upgrading are obvious.
Starting from 2022, China's particleboard industry has entered the second round of rapid development stage. In the first half of 2024, the country has 332 particle board production lines, with a capacity of 59.4 million cubic meters. 43 particle board production lines are under construction nationwide, with a total annual production capacity of 15.08 million cubic meters.
The new round of development has further scaled up the particleboard industry, further improved the level of equipment and concentration, and more than 7 enterprises with an annual capacity of more than 1 million cubic meters. Shandong is China's particleboard production capacity is the largest province, Linyi area particleboard production capacity accounts for more than half of the province. From the perspective of production line distribution, China's particleboard production capacity is mainly concentrated in areas with relatively rich eucalyptus and poplar plantation resources, downstream market agglomeration areas such as furniture, logistics convenience and developed areas.
Two rounds of rapid development of particleboard industry is also related to market demand. The first round of rapid growth is in the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, mainly from the rapid development of the custom home industry for particleboard strong demand, custom furniture in the particleboard application of more than 80%. The second round is the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, although the growth of demand for particleboard in customized home has slowed down, there is a greater demand for particleboard in traditional furniture, office furniture and other markets.
Innovation drives industrial upgrading at a faster pace
The continuous innovation of particleboard manufacturing technology and equipment, the continuous emergence of new products and the continuous improvement of quality are important driving forces for the rapid development of particleboard industry.
In recent years, with the support of the national key research and development plan (" 13th Five-Year Plan "" 14th Five-Year Plan") and industry research and development projects, in view of the common bottleneck problems faced by the development of the industry, scientific research institutes, colleges and universities and the upstream and downstream industries of particleboard through joint innovation research, around the particleboard form fine manufacturing, adhesive innovation, energy-saving manufacturing and other aspects of the key core technologies continue to break through. The quality performance of particleboard continues to improve, and particleboard is developing in the direction of light weight and high strength, which has changed the traditional cognition of particleboard in the consumer market. Particleboard manufacturing costs continue to decline, which has been recognized by the consumer market, promoting the high-quality development of the particleboard industry. 2017-2022, the National wood and bamboo industry technology innovation strategic alliance, particleboard industry National innovation Alliance and many other particleboard scientific research projects have been approved and carried out joint research, effectively supporting the innovation and development of particleboard industry.
The new innovative achievements and demonstration projects, through the annual particleboard industry development seminar and exchange activities, can be timely publicity and promotion to the particleboard industry, but also vigorously promote the rapid improvement and application of new technologies and new achievements. Ningfeng Group, the host of the national key research and development Plan, undertakes the 2023 national particleboard industry innovation seminar activities, and shows the latest scientific research achievements to the national particleboard industry peers - an annual output of 600,000 cubic meters of lightweight high-strength particleboard demonstration production line, providing power support for industrial innovation and development.
Raw material innovation is the industrial application of bamboo, reed and waste recycled wood materials in particleboard. Furen Group and Dunhua Yalian Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. built the first continuous flat pressing bamboo particleboard production line with bamboo as raw materials, driving the country to build a number of continuous flat pressing bamboo particleboard production lines, to achieve the industrialization and large-scale application of bamboo particleboard. Panjin Jijia Ecological Board Industry Co., Ltd. has built an annual production line of 100,000 cubic meters of reed particleboard in the reed production area of Liaoning, realizing the transformation of reed from papermaking raw materials to particleboard raw materials, and has built an annual production line of 150,000 cubic meters of reed particleboard in Inner Mongolia. Waste furniture, wood formwork, wood building materials and other waste recycled wood materials are used in particleboard manufacturing, and the future development prospects are worthy of attention.
The innovation of shavings raw materials, shavings form and manufacturing technology has realized the innovative development of high performance, lightweight, environmental protection and functionalization of particleboard. Compared with the traditional ordinary furniture particleboard, the high performance of today's particleboard is reflected in higher mechanical strength, better water resistance, better dimensional stability, better deformation resistance, and can meet the larger size, large span, high load-bearing applications.
In addition, the innovative development of particleboard is also reflected in energy saving and efficiency. In the production of particleboard, the environmental protection technology and equipment of the waste gas and tail gas have also been significantly developed, which ensures that the exhaust emissions of the particleboard production line meet or exceed the national or local environmental protection requirements.
The industry has broad prospects for development
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", particleboard has made significant progress in terms of production technology, equipment, product innovation, etc., and the manufacturing level and production capacity have entered the forefront of the world. As a basic material industry involving the people's livelihood in the field of building materials and household, particleboard in the context of the national "double carbon" strategy, in line with the concept of green and low-carbon development, is a forest product with broad development prospects. Through process technology improvement and innovation, the industry will further reduce material consumption and energy consumption, improve the performance and quality of particleboard, and take the road of industrial low-carbon development.
How will the particleboard industry develop in the future?
Adhere to the high quality development of particleboard industry. With the high standard traction of industry demand, China's particleboard industry will gradually shift from the high-speed growth stage to the high-quality development stage. In the short term, the particleboard market will face fierce competition, the industry should adhere to the manufacturing of high-quality particleboard, pay more attention to the combination of particleboard manufacturing and the new generation of information technology such as the Internet of things, big data, visual identification, and promote the development of intelligent manufacturing of particleboard production lines. At the same time, we pay attention to standardization, standardize product production and circulation, and improve product quality.
More extensive and refined use of raw materials. With the increase of production capacity, in different regions or different stages, particleboard will face raw material tension, price rise and other situations, how to expand particleboard raw materials and raw material refinement utilization will be one of the key concerns of the industry. The sources of supplementary raw materials can be expanded from three aspects: first, make full use of bamboo, reed, straw, sand willow and other non-wood resources; Second, fully develop regional tree species resources; The third is the use of waste recycling wood materials. At the same time, we should pay attention to the scientific and rational use of raw materials, and maximize the value of raw materials.
Expand the application field of particleboard. At present, China's particleboard is mainly used in the field of custom home and furniture, with the large number of high-performance products such as lightweight high-strength particleboard and directional particleboard into production, it is imperative to expand the application field of particleboard. In the future, particleboard in the whole house decoration and assembly building, packaging field, construction field, vehicle and ship transportation field, desertification control field and other applications are worthy of attention and expectations.
Particleboard innovation activities will be more active. The rapid development of China's particleboard industry, on the one hand, is the traction of market demand, on the other hand, the continuous upgrading of the industry itself. Only with continuous innovation and development of process technology and equipment level, and continuous improvement of product quality, can production enterprises have the opportunity to achieve breakthrough development. At present, some enterprises have set up research institutes to strengthen research and development in the aspects of process refinement, quality and cost precision control, functional product development, and application field expansion.
At the same time, the particleboard industry also needs upstream and downstream industries, universities and research institutes to jointly innovate, integrate industry-university-research innovation resources, introduce and cultivate scientific and technological talents, enhance the comprehensive innovation ability of enterprises, accelerate the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and further enhance the international competitiveness of China's particleboard industry.
