The dual carbon strategy is imminent, and the four man-made boards help achieve the dual carbon goal and build a green and low-carbon future factory

  In recent years, the state has put forward the development strategy of "carbon peak and carbon neutral". As an extension of forest resource utilization, wood-board products are an integral part of the carbon cycle of forest ecosystem and an important carrier of carbon stock flow, which has positive significance for the carbon balance between forest ecosystem and atmosphere, as well as regulating the carbon turnover rate and amount in the atmosphere. With the gradual establishment of low-carbon circular development economic system, woodenboard industry, as a typical industry of circular economy, will get more development opportunities.

 Wood-based board in our country's application and distribution area

 Wood-based board refers to the wood and its residues or other non-wood plants as raw materials, processed into various shapes of unit materials, with or without the application of adhesives and other additives, group glued into a variety of board or molding products, mainly including plywood, shavings (scraps) board and fiberboard and other three categories of products.

Challenges and opportunities of wood-based panel industry: from total expansion to high-quality development

Wood-based panels are widely used, among which furniture manufacturing is the most important application field, followed by architectural decoration field. In China, the amount of woodenboard used in furniture manufacturing accounts for about 60%, 20% and 7% in building materials and floor manufacturing respectively, and 8% in packaging. From the perspective of enterprise regional distribution, wood-based panel manufacturing enterprises are mainly concentrated in Zhejiang and Jiangsu regions.

Our COUNTRY IS THE WORLD'S FIRST BIG COUNTRY OF WOODENBOARD PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE, ANNUAL PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION OF WOODENBOARD ABOUT 300 MILLION CUBIC METERS. However, China's woodeboard industry is facing problems such as high supply pressure of wood resources, serious problems of environmental protection and production safety, low market concentration, unreasonable structure and fierce homogeneous competition, and there is still a huge space for improvement and upgrading.

With the continuous promotion of China's supply-side structural reform, continuous improvement of environmental protection standards and increasingly strict supervision and regulation, China's wood-based panel industry has followed the development trend, looked for endogenous growth drivers, and gradually shifted from gross volume expansion to high-quality development with structural optimization.

In the past five years, China's woodeboard industry continues to eliminate backward production capacity, the whole line of production intelligence level gradually improved, industry concentration further improved; The proportion of low formaldehyde release products and aldehyde free woodenboard products has been significantly increased, and the variety structure has been constantly optimized. The upgrading and upgrading of environmental protection facilities continued, and the transfer of the wood-based panel industry in economically developed areas to areas with higher environmental carrying capacity and richer wood resources continued, and the industrial layout became more reasonable.

In 2021, the COVID-19 epidemic has entered the stage of normal prevention and control, and the world economy is gradually recovering. However, under the combined influence of multiple factors such as the turbulence of the domestic real estate market and the continuous rise of the price of bulk chemical raw materials, the woodeboard industry is facing the great challenge of surging costs and compressed demand.

With the proposal of the national strategy of "carbon peak and carbon neutral", wood-board industry, as an important carrier of carbon stock flow in forest ecosystem, is also facing new opportunities and breeding a new development trend by virtue of its unique advantages such as low processing energy consumption and environmental friendliness.

Wood-based panel equipment manufacturing industry three major development trends: large-scale, digital, raw material adaptability。

Raw material supply, coordinated development of upstream and downstream industries, and logistics and transportation are the main considerations for the layout of wood-based panel enterprises. In addition, with the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the customized, personalized and diversified market demand at the consumer end is accelerating, and the development progress of high-end market and environmental protection products is accelerating. Therefore, there are higher technical requirements and standards in wood-based panel production equipment and machinery. The integration and elimination of backward products, the realization of scale effect and the upgrading of management system are the inevitable trend of the development of woode-board equipment manufacturing industry.

(1) Upsizing

With the full implementation of supply-side structural reform and the continuous increase of national environmental protection policies, China's wood-based panel industry has accelerated the adjustment of capacity structure, continued to shut down and eliminate backward small production lines, and encouraged the construction of large automated production lines.

Wood-based panel industry has become a trend of large-scale production and large-scale equipment. The average single-line production capacity of China's continuous flat pressing production lines for fiberboard and particleboard continued to improve, reaching 126,000 cubic meters/year and 118,000 cubic meters/year respectively in 2021, and the maximum single-line production capacity of production lines under construction both reached 600,000 cubic meters/year.

(2) Digitalization

With the gradual improvement of the penetration rate of artificial panel automation machinery and equipment, the digital and intelligent transformation of artificial panel production and manufacturing will become the inevitable result of technological progress and economic development, and also the guidance of the national policy to promote industrial upgrading.

Artificial board digital production line is the integration of equipment, network, information, automation, lean management and manufacturing technology. The production workshop is built into a digital manufacturing platform, and the production data is collected, analyzed, processed, transmitted, stored and applied, so as to realize real-time monitoring, data collection, fault diagnosis and subsequent analysis and optimization of the system, making the production more efficient.

(3) Stronger adaptability to raw materials

It plays an irreplaceable role in protecting the ecological environment and meeting the different demands of economic construction and social development for forest products to make full use of resources such as processing of artificial fast-growing commercial forest and three residues and develop wood-based board production to replace large-diameter wood products.

In recent years, in addition to fast-growing forest and three residues, artificial board production equipment with crop straw, bamboo and other raw materials has been put into production. Under the background of "carbon neutral and carbon peak", providing a variety of alternative raw materials to produce wood-based panel solutions has become the development trend of wood-based panel equipment industry.

The four major wood-based panels will help achieve the "dual carbon" goal and build a green and low-carbon future factory