" " " Paolo Gardino Consulting Company Via XX Settembre 34/9A 16121 Genova - Italy Tel. (++39) 010 5701111 Fax (++39) 010 5701150 P.Iva 03287100105 Giovedì, 21 Settembre 2023 ore 20:23 The Chinese Wood Flooring industry China is building more than 19 million houses a year, against less than 2 million in the USA and slightly more than 2 million in Europe. This creates a tremendous demand of all products which can be used in the building sector. The wood sector in the world has been heavily influenced by China. This country has rapidly become one of the main wood importers in the world. China is building preferential links with the strategic suppliers of the wood products so necessary to its economy. The main driver to the Chinese expansion of the wood industries is the growth of the internal market, with a population of 1,3 billion people, growing of 40 million every year and with a growing purchasing capacity. Chinese industries are looking into export markets for selling excess capacity and for getting remunerative prices. China has thus become a major exporter of wood products. These items have flooded the Western World, often at incredible prices, causing strong reactions in industries, Associations and Governments. There have been anti-dumping actions which have brought to impose import duties on certain Chinese products. The report analyses the wood flooring sector, one of the wood sectors which have been more heavily influenced by Chinese exports. China has produced in the year 2007 more than 360 million square meters of wood flooring, including laminated flooring, much more than North America and more or less the same quantity produced in Europe. It has exported about 150 million square meters flooring, little les than all the USA production. It will produce in year 2010 500 million square meters flooring, exporting 200 million. These figures are so large, the growth is so quick, that it is clear that the world is heavily influences by the Chinese production and export. Gardino Consulting Company has invested in the last four years considerable time and efforts in Asia. It has therefore prepared this report, which is fruit of several trips to China and of many interviews made to the main Chinese wood flooring industries. The report will be a very useful tool for all companies wishing to make business with China, both sellers of items purchased by Chinese plywood industries, such as logs, machinery, chemicals, veneer etc., or companies interested in buying wood flooring in China. It is also an important tool for Western wood flooring producers and traders, in order to get a clear and updated picture of the competition of Chinese companies, and for analyzing if any of these companies might be their client or their supplier. The report is published in July 2008. The cost is Euro 2200 in pdf form. Provisional table of contents 1 - Scope of the research   2 – Method of work    3 – Synthesis of the study    4 – Brief overview of the Chinese economy    4 1  Economic Performance.  4 2 Chinese socio -economic development   4 3  Chinese Construction Industry.   5 – Chinese wood consumption    5 1 Domestic resources.  5 2 Log domestic production and import   5 3  Wood based panels.   6 – Chinese wood flooring industries   6 1 – Overview of Chinese wood flooring industries.  6 3  Raw material for flooring production.   6 3 1  Solid Wood flooring and engineered wood flooring.     6 3 2 Laminated flooring.   7 – Chinese wood flooring production    7 1 – Solid wood flooring.   7 2 – Engineered wood flooring.   7 3 – Laminated flooring.   7 4 – Bamboo flooring.   8 – Chinese wood flooring export  < 8 1  Export distribution channel  8 2  Export taxation.   9 – Chinese wood flooring import   10 -  Chinese wood flooring consumption   11 – Perceived barriers in  Chinese flooring sector    11 1  Perceived barriers to the export of Chinese flooring.   11 2  Barriers that foreign companies might face in China:  12 - Wood working machinery for flooring production   13 –Environment, certification, quality inspection    14– Future developments of Chinese wood flooring industries    Appendix 1 – Some of the main Chinese wood flooring producers         Provisional table of charts   Figure 4 1    China  Map of China and of Chinese provinces      Chart 4 1    China  Real GDP growth, 2002-2007  Percentage annual     Chart 4 2    Real GDP growth, 2000-2010  Percentage annual    < Chart 4 3    China  Inflation growth, 2000-2007 Percentage annual     Graph 4 1    China  Real income and consumption growth, breakdown by urban and rural residents, 2006-2007 Percentage annual     Chart 4 4    China  Housing starts, 2005-2007  Thousand units      Graph 4 2    USA, Europe (19 countries) and China  Residential housing starts, 2006-2007  Thousand units     Graph 5 1    China  Chinese commercial forests, 2007  Percentage share of thousand hectares      Graph 5 2    China  Chinese forestry, breakdown by types, 2005 Percentage share of thousand hectares     Chart 5 1    China  Log domestic production and import, 2005-2007  Million m3      Graph 5 3    China  Imports of log by country, 2005  Percentage share of m3      Chart 5 2    China  Wood based panels domestic production, 2005-2006  Million m3      Graph 5 4    Wood based panels production of the EU-27, Canada, USA, China and Russia, 1996-2006  Million m3     Figure 6 1    Chinese wood flooring industries  Main areas of production, 2007      Graph 6 1    China  Workers of flooring industries, 2007  Percentage share of range of workers     Graph 6 2    China  Flooring products, breakdown by type, 2007  Percentage share of number of interviewed companies      Graph 6 3    China  Imports of wood for flooring production, breakdown by type, 2007 Percentage share     Graph 6 4     China  Species used for solid wood flooring, breakdown by type, 2007  Percentage share      Graph 6 5    China  Species used for multi–layer flooring, breakdown by type, 2007  Percentage share      Graph 6 6    China  Species used for three – layer flooring, breakdown by type, 2007 Percentage share      Graph 6 7            China  Laminated flooring face, 2007  Percentage share      Chart 7 1    China  Flooring production, breakdown by type, 2003-2007  Million m2     Graph 7 1    China  Flooring production capacity and output, 2005  Percentage share of m2      Graph 7 2    China  Solid wood flooring production capacity and output, 2005 Percentage share of m2      Graph 7 3    China  Companies buying the veneer they need or buying the logs for veneer slicing, 2007  Percentage      Graph 7 4    China  Engineered flooring production capacity and output, 2005  Percentage share of m2     Graph 7 5    China  Laminated flooring production capacity and output, 2005  Percentage share of m2      Chart 8 1    China  Chinese wood flooring export, 2007  Thousand m2    Chart 8 2    China  Chinese wood flooring export  Tons    Graph 8 1    China  Export destination, breakdown by country, 2007  Percentage share  Graph 8 2    China  Export destination, breakdown of sales made to Asian countries, 2007 Percentage share      Graph 8 3    China  Export destination, breakdown of sales made to European countries, 2007 Percentage share      Graph 8 4    China  Export distribution channels, 2007  Percentage share      Graph 8 5    China  Reply to the question: are you interested in finding a sales agent in new export countries?, 2007  Percentage of replies      Chart 8 3    China  History of Recent Forest Product Trade Policy Changes in China, 2006      Chart 9 1    China  Chinese wood flooring import, 2005  m2      Chart 9 2    China  Import tariff, 2005  Percentage on CIF (Cost Insurance Freight) prices      Graph 10 1    Main flooring products used in the world, 2004 Percentage share     Graph 10 2    Main flooring products used in China, 2004 Percentage share of m2      Chart 10 1    China  Wood flooring consumption in China,2007  Million m2      Graph 10 3    China  Wood flooring consumption in China, 2007  Million m2     < Graph 11 1    China  Barriers to Chinese flooring export, breakdown by types, 2007 Percentage share      Graph 11 2    China  Companies believing that anti-dumping actions against China will hit their activity, 2007  Percentage of replies     Graph 12 1    China  Machinery age, 2007  Percentage share of range of years      Chart 12 1    China  Exports of woodworking machinery by country and geographical area, 2002 – 2007  Million US$     Chart 12 2    China  Imports of woodworking machinery by country and geographical area, 2002 – 2007  Million US$      Chart 12 3    China  Imports of woodworking machinery by country, 2002 – 2007 Percentage share     Chart 12 4    China  Exports of woodworking machinery by country, 2002 – 2007 Percentage share     Graph 12 2    China  Chinese consumption of woodworking machines, 2007  Million US$     Graph 13 1    China  Quality certification, 2007  Percentage of companies of the interviewed sample which have been quality certified     Graph 13 2    China  Quality certification , breakdown by type, 2007  Percentage share      Graph 13 3    China  Quality certification, 2007  Percentage of companies of the interviewed sample which have been certified on environment issues     Graph 13 4    China  Environmental certification, breakdown by type, 2007  Percentage share      Graph 13 5    China  Percentage of companies whose products are inspected, 2007      Graph 13 6    China  Quality inspection, 2007  Percentage of companies of the interviewed sample which have the goods inspected by the buyer or by independent inspectors   Back Copyright © Paolo Gardino Consulting Company