Nisshin Group Ltd. completed building of a new plywood manufacturing plant in Miye prefecture, Japan. It has started the production in April. This is the first plywood plant in Kii peninsula, where has rich forest resources, as ITTO reports.
Total investment is 7 billion yen ($62.8 million). Total employees are about 50. The plant is fully automated to save man power. Annual log consumption is 103,000 cubic metres at the beginning and it will be expanded to 120,000 cubic metres in future.
Main producing item is non-structural panels like floor base and coated concrete forming panel. Monthly plywood production will be 6,000 cubic metres. To secure logs stably, it has concluded a log purchase agreement with local forest unions, log auction market and timber owners.
It will have three routes to collect cedar and cypress logs from Miye prefecture log suppliers, Nisshin will subsidize cost of replantation for timber owners, who supply plywood logs by clear cutting. Nisshin aims to make this plant as the most high production plant in Japan.
