Oct 27, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. Ishii Trading Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has started marketing Vietnamese plywood for engineering works construction materials. The brand name is “Platform veneer”. The first shipment of 10,000 sheets arrived in early August. Initial target of sales is 20,000 sheets a month mainly in Tokyo market then eventual target is 50,000 sheets a month, as ITTO reported.

Ishii Trading was established in 1958 and has been handling traditional Japanese furniture and paulownia for wood working. Now it handles housing materials such as plywood, lumber, MDF, particleboard, LVL and laminated lumber.

Vietnamese plywood is made out of both natural species such as keruing plantation timbers. To reduce the cost, it mainly uses core veneer so that the cost is about 10% lower than normal imported plywood used for earth retaining board.

Size of the plywood is 11 mm thick, 900 mm wide with length of 1,800 mm. Ishii thinks that the demand of engineering works materials should be firm through 2020 as the Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo in 2020.