Some plywood mills in Malaysia and Indonesia were forced to stop production due to serious supply shortage. While all mills are in danger by the high log costs and the low sales prices for plywood products in both countries.
As one of Malaysian newspaper reported, one of the big plywood mills has already stopped plywood manufacturing because of log supply shortage. The company used to supply approximately 4,000 m3 of structural and concrete forming plywood a month for the Japan market.
Als...
More