Largest LVL plant in Japan completed

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Three companies, Iida group holdings, First Plywood and Kawai Ringyo built the largest LVL manufacturing plant in Japan, which completed in late March in Aomori prefecture.

The plant is test running now and monthly production is about 75,000 cbms with log consumption of about 140,000 cbms. Total investment is 8.4 billion yen.

Aomori prefecture has the fourth largest forest in Japan. Its trees were planted after the war and they are matured for harvest now but there was no large log consuming plant of more than 50,000 cbms a year in the prefecture so that more than half of harvested logs have been sold outside the prefecture and it has been earnest wish to have large log consuming plant in the prefecture.

Total production of LVL in Japan is about 70,000 cbms so with this new plant, the total volume will be more than double.

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