VIETNAM - The Korean company Dongwha, one of Asia's largest producer of wooden panels, has ordered a new MDF plant from Siempelkamp.

In 2010 and 2015, the company VRG Dongwha, a joint venture of Dongwha International and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), ordered two MDF plants from Siempelkamp.

Both plants produce in the south of Vietnam in the greater Saigon area and serve the country's continuously growing wood-based products market.

The new investment in a third Siempelkamp plant is being made by Dongwha as an individual company in order to exploit the specific resource deposits in northern Vietnam in the Hanoi area. Here, acacia is considered one of the most common tree species - ideal for improving soil quality, filtering pollutants and enriching the soil with nitrogen. However, the raw material acacia presents board producers with challenges due to its demanding fiber geometry.

The innovative press concept of the ContiRoll Generation 9 NEO, many years of experience in processing the raw material acacia, and the good cooperation during the last projects were decisive for the new Dongwha order. "We are proud to once again support our Korean partner with a tailor-made solution to expand its market-leading position," says Marc Müller, Area Sales Director Southeast Asia Siempelkamp.

After groundbreaking beginning of December 2019, delivery/assembly will start in the third quarter of 2020, commissioning is scheduled for the late summer of 2021.