It intends to recapture market share of domestic wood from imported products and at the same time to aim export of lumber.
Toyama has three sawmills in Miyazaki prefecture with state of the art sawmilling machines. Annual log consumption is about 160,000 cubic metres.
The new mill would have 15% more production with annual log consumption of 100,000 cubic metres. Once this new lines start up, total log consumption by all the group mills would be about 300,000 cubic metres.
The president Toyama says that quality of lumber should be upgraded as time goes by so having higher grade and precise delivery period are the priority matter to give satisfaction to the customers. Production items are mainly solid wood housing materials including cedar 2x4 lumber.
Facing declining trend of new housing starts, the company intends to overcome by grabbing market share the imported wood products have then hopes to start lumber export since the mill situates close to the port of Shibushi, which is the top wood exporting port in Japan.
