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China's wooden flooring industry gains healthy
growth
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According to Zhang Senlin, head of China National
Forest Products Industry Association, there were
3,000 wooden flooring enterprises in China in 2005
with one million employees in production,
distribution and service activities. The output
value of China's wooden flooring was about 45
billion yuan ($5.63 billion) or 292 million m2 in
2005, up 18% from 2004. Of this total, solid
composite flooring accounted for 46 million m2 (up
40%), laminated flooring grew 190 million m2 (up
20%), bamboo flooring 6 million m2 (up 20%) and
solid flooring 50 million m2 (down 30%). |
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Mr. Senlin expected China's wooden flooring industry
to develop rapidly in the next five years. The
development goal of the industry is to achieve a
production of 500 million m2 by 2010, 40% of
which will be for the export market. |
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China's wooden flooring trade (million m2) |
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Taiwan PoC owns world's largest furniture factories |
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According to Chen Qiu of the Taiwan Furniture
Manufacturers Association, 300 members of the
association distributed across Asia have an
aggregate annual output of above $15 billion, more
than any other country in the world. Mr. Qiu
affirmed that Taiwanese manufacturers accounted for
about 50% of China's furniture exports of $14
billion and 90% of Vietnamese $1 billion furniture
exports in 2005. Taiwan PoC's furniture exports were
around $1.3 billion that year.
Most of the furniture manufactured by Taiwanese
firms was shipped to the USA. Mr. Qiu added that
Taiwan PoC held a share of one-sixth of the US
furniture market estimated at $60 billion and
accounted for above 20% of the European market in
2005. Taiwan PoC's Taisheng Furniture Company in
Dongguan City, Guangdong Province is the largest
wooden furniture factory in the world, exporting
30,000 sets of furniture in 3,000 containers a month
to the USA. |
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