The flooring industry, especially the
solid wood composite flooring industry, has been developing rapidly in
Guangdong Province due to rising housing starts.
According to
statistics, sales of commercial housing reached 62.20 million m² in
2007 in Guangdong Province,
up 20% in the last year. According to a survey of 113 wood flooring
enterprises, the production capacity of the province was 151.94 million
m², up 16.6% in the last year. Of this total, solid wood flooring was
24.55 million m² (a 9.32% rise), solid wooden composite flooring was
53.41 million m² (up 40.52%), laminated flooring was 72.01
million m² (4.35%) and bamboo flooring was 1.92 million m² (103%).
There were 820 thousand hectares of fast growing eucalypt plantations
with growing stock of 20.63 million m³ in the province. Eucalypts were
the material base for most solid wood composite flooring and had
helped the province’s share of production grow at a rate of 20% in the
last three years.
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