The flooring industry, especially the solid wood composite flooring industry, has been developing rapidly in Guangdong Province due to rising housing starts. According to statistics, sales of commercial housing reached 62.20 million m² in 2007 in Guangdong Province,
up 20% in the last year. According to a survey of 113 wood flooring enterprises, the production capacity of the province was 151.94 million m², up 16.6% in the last year. Of this total, solid wood flooring was 24.55 million m² (a 9.32% rise), solid wooden composite flooring was 53.41 million m² (up 40.52%), laminated flooring was 72.01
million m² (4.35%) and bamboo flooring was 1.92 million m² (103%). There were 820 thousand hectares of fast growing eucalypt plantations with growing stock of 20.63 million m³ in the province. Eucalypts were the material base for most solid wood composite flooring and had
helped the province’s share of production grow at a rate of 20% in the last three years. |
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