Itochu Kenzai Corporation (Tokyo) plans to increase sales of ecological panel products. It has own ecological brand of ‘global wood’ for panel products and it will add more products under this brand, ITTO reports.
Among major building materials trading firms, as far as plywood handling is concerned, Itochu Kenzai is third with 20% in total business but as far as domestic plywood handling is concerned, it is the top with 25%.
Domestic plywood handling is further increasing. Share of import plywood and domestic plywood reversed this year and domestic share is 52% and it thinks this trend would continue.
Percentage of ‘Global wood’ is now 20% in total plywood sales and it plans to add more products for this brand. In imported plywood, they are hybrid plywood with 100% planted wood and coated plywood and structural plywood with forest certification. In domestic plywood, structural plywood with cypress.
From Indonesia, new product is 100% planted wood plywood with falcata for face and back and planted
meranti for core, which has higher specific gravity and has much better nail holding performance, which solved weak point of 100% falcate plywood.
Forest certified products have brand name of ‘Save nature- structural and Save nature-coated concrete forming’. It says monthly sales of ‘Global wood’ products are 10,000 cubic meters and it plans to increase 10% for this term.
