World consumption of engineered wood products are expected to gradually rise

United States: According to a recent report BISShrapnel, despite the current global economic crisis, the housing construction market downturn, but predicted consumption of engineered wood products by 2013 will reach new highs. The report of the 2009-2013 years, the Pacific Rim and Europe, structural engineering of timber production, consumption, and trade and price quotes were predicted products include laminated veneer lumber (LVL), I-beam, glued-laminated beams (glulam). Report on the major markets, economic conditions and outlook for housing construction market, also made an overview, because these two aspects of engineering wood products consumption prediction basis.

    BISShrapnel pointed out that the world economy has been in the United States seriously affected by the financial crisis and predicted that this effect will continue in 2009, is expected by 2009, an important region of the engineered wood products production and consumption will decline further four percentage points, but it also predicts that during 2010 to 2013 will rise 25%. Price rise should be the most fierce in China, followed by Oceania and Europe. Weak growth in the region is expected to be in North America and Japan. BISShrapnel's report also pointed out that in North America, Oceania, Europe, North Asia (Japan and China) is the main consumer markets engineered wood. Here, each an area in the past 10 years have experienced a greater change. In Oceania, the production and consumption is likely to be in the next five years, growth, because of the economy and construction industry downturn in the current period is over will rise. In Europe, Germany and Russia in the current downturn in the construction period, there will be more opportunity to promote the expansion of production capacity. Japan's LVL market in the past five years, relatively stable, is expected in the next five years is likely to continue to maintain the status quo.

    BISShrapnel predicted, in the 2009-2013 years, LVL products will grow 52%, plywood lumber will grow 25%, I-beams will grow 53%. Of course, the premise that the growth of the global economic recovery and, if so, then is expected to 2013, these three kinds of products, output will exceed the highest point of history.

    In the past 10 years, North America and the beam LVL manufacturers, mainly to the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany and Australia exports. BISShrapnel estimated LVL in Europe over the past five years, the volume of imports fluctuated between 5000 ~ 20000m3, export volume of 40000 ~ 60000 m3 between the imports were mainly from North America. The largest volume of imports is the United Kingdom, followed by France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Japan is also the importer of LVL. In Australia, LVL, and I-beam on the ground, roof and walls on the use of share of the large plywood timber is also very wide range of applications is expected in the next 10 years, the use of these products in Australia will be increasingly large amount of .

    In the past five years, LVL wood structural timber and plywood exports in China's rapid development, but in 2008 declined. The strong growth in 2007 was due to a joint venture between Japan and China, driven by the development of enterprises. The purpose of the establishment of joint ventures is to export to Japan. However, in the next few years, due to the lifting of a number of joint ventures on China's exports had a negative impact. But China's domestic market for engineered wood products, demand potential is very large, the majority of China's current building is a concrete structure is expected as time goes by, this situation will change, when the time will the use of engineered wood products, creating opportunities for .