CHINA - Wanhua Ecoboard, the panel division of Chinese Wanhua Industrial Group, has ordered two lines from Dieffenbacher that will enable it to begin producing wheat straw-based Supermechanical Strength Particleboard (Super PB) in 2023.

Wanhua will install its new lines in Chenzhou, Hunan and Leshan, Sichuan.

Delivery of equipment is scheduled to start in September 2022 and in October 2022. Start-up of both lines is planned for the second quarter of 2023.

Once the new plants are in operation, Wanhua will reach a production capacity of more than 2.5 million cubic meters per year with its 10 Dieffenbacher lines.

The companies’ relationship began in 2015 when Wanhua Ecoboard ordered its first wheat straw-based particleboard plant from Dieffenbacher . Following five additional straw-based particleboard lines, Wanhua expanded its product range to wheat straw-based OSB and MDF by 2020.

“In today’s fast-paced world, such a long period of uninterrupted cooperation is quite rare,” said Shouheng Zhang, General Manager of Wanhua Ecoboard. “But Dieffenbacher, as one of our most important partners, has proven time and again the wisdom of our continuing to invest in this partnership. Committing to our ninth and tenth lines confirms the excellent quality of our collaboration.”