Survey of Oriented Strand Board Industry in North America in 2001

While the entire building board market is expected to decline slightly this year, OSB's share of the building board market will exceed that of building plywood.

According to Mr. Adair, director of market research at the Engineering Wood Association, the construction plywood market will decline from 19.4 billion ft2 (square feet) in 2000 to 18.4 billion ft2 in 2001. The OSB market is expected to grow from 20.6 billion ft2 in 2000 to 2001. The 20.7 billion ft2, while the production capacity of the OSB plant will increase from 24.175 billion ft2/year in 2000 to 25 billion ft2/year in 2001.

Of the OSBs manufactured in North America, 70% are used for residential construction, and OSB manufacturers continue to be certified for product applications, such as certification for building floors in residential construction and structural components for industrial buildings. Certification.

Mr. Adair said that “the decline in residential construction and the weak market due to the commissioning of the new OSB plant will continue to put pressure on the old and inefficient plywood and OSB plants.”

Mr. Angelini, Director of the Building Board Association, agrees.

According to Mr. Angelini, as OSB accounts for more than 50% of the building board market in new residential construction, the decline in residential construction tasks and the increased production capacity of OSB plants have forced more plywood plants to go bankrupt; for example: Hight Level, Alberta, Canada The Footing OSB plant has a production capacity close to 1 billion ft2/year (800,000 m3/year) and is increasing its production. Similarly, the same is true for the OSB plant with a production capacity of 500 million ft2/year for Joanna, South Carolina. Georgia Pacific (GP) has a production capacity of 410 million ft2/year at the OSB plant in Fordyce, Arkansas, and was commissioned earlier this year. The above three plants plus Weyerhaeuser's OSB plant in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada, have an expansion capacity of 550 million ft2/year (490000 m 3/year). Slocan Forest Product added to OSB plant in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. Production capacity is 100 million ft2 / year. In view of the decline in residential construction tasks, the new production capacity of the above five OSB plants has intensified market competitiveness.

Mr. Angelini believes that it is unlikely that any new OSB plant will be announced recently because the existing production capacity has already greatly exceeded the current demand for OSB.

I. Suspiciously announced the construction of a new factory

OSB industry players must pay close attention to OSB producers talking about building new plants in or after 2002, and should see if they really build new plants, or just a gesture to stop other OSB producers from building. New plant. This attitude can be seen in the planned new factory table attached at the end of this article, with a total production capacity of approximately 4.7 million m3/year.

Mr. Angelini said, “In the past, there were announcements for the construction of new plants, but these new plants have never been built. Some investors have repeatedly built new plants based on the price of the products when they entered the market. However, when competitors are new with them When the factories entered the market together and pushed down the price of the products, they abandoned the new plants built according to the hypothetical price."

Since there is no new OSB plant construction this year and there is sufficient capacity to meet the current and recent demand for OSB, North American OSB producers are a bit worried about the expanding European OSB production capacity.

At present, the European OSB market is quite saturated, but there are still new plants scheduled to be put into production recently, or to build new plants. This will increase its total production capacity to more than twice the current level in a few years.

Although Europe's OSB exports to North America account for only a small share of the North American market, these exports will continue to increase as new production capacity is put into production, and Europe, which has weak absorption in the OSB market, must make exports more favorable. select.

Second, threaten exports

North American OSB manufacturers may believe that increasing OSB production in Europe is a threat to their export business.

Although North American OSB producers export to 40 different countries and regions, only Japan is their only export market.

European OSB producers may develop Japan and other export markets to balance their growing factory capacity.

At present, the production capacity of the European OSB plant is about 2 million m3/year, and it is expected to increase to 3 million m3/year by the end of this year.

The European Federation of Wood-based Panels believes that the future production of the European OSB industry is still optimistic, as OSB production capacity is expected to increase by 64% in the next few years. What is the outlook for the OSB industry in North America? Its current operating rate is only 83% of its production capacity. Only this year's new residential construction task has unexpectedly increased, which has led to an improvement in OSB production.

The new, highly efficient OSB plant uses modern technology to reduce production costs and make product prices competitive.

While industry figures predict a decline in building plywood consumption in 2001, they expect only a slight increase in OSB consumption. Therefore, OSB producers must strengthen their technology and continue to reduce the manufacturing costs of non-value-added processing.

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