Wood processing plant built in Nghe An
The Thang Nam (May) Forestry Joint-Stock Company on February 19 began construction of a wood and fibre-board processing plant in central Nghe wooAn province.
The plant, the most modern of its kind so far in Southeast Asia, has a total investment of US$500 million. It will have a capacity of 8,800 cubic metres per year of wooden slats and 400,000 cubic metres per year of MDF planks.
Designed by Japan’s New CC Construction Consultants and managed by Royal Haskoning firm from the Netherlands, the plant will use advanced technology and production lines provided by Germany’s Diffenbacher Group, the world’s leading supplier of wood processing equipment.
It is expected to become a model of sustainable forestry development for environmental protection, that helps generate jobs and raise incomes for people in the western districts of the province.
The first phase of the plant is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2014 and its second phase in 2017.