Indian plywood industry is rapidly transforming itself since last 4 - 5 years. The plywood producers are now very much concerned for quality, automization and volume production. The plywood manufacturing companies, with a production capacity of 50 trucks a month are now looking for an expansion up to 75 to 100 trucks to bring down the overhead cost. The calculation has led the manufacturers to increase their production capacity despite a large number of new industries was installed during 2016 to 2018.
The growing competition has plotted many established players of mid segment in such a way that they have to install new machines such. The demand for Multidaylights presses, High capacity boilers, Veneer Core Composer, Calibrators, Automatic DD saw machines etc was very evident during the Delhi wood exhibition held in Greater Noida in March 2019.
The aggressive display of plywood machinery suppliers and eagerness of ply manufacturers to transform their factories with ultra - modern machines were evident at each booth visited by Ply Reporter. Automatic, hassle free and less labour oriented along with infrastructure to produce high quality products is the most talked area where new factories from UP, Punjab and Haryana are interested in.
More than 2 dozen plywood machinery suppliers and makers took part in the show, where a dozens put their Live Demo and explaining the industry people about every detail of machines. According to information gathered by the Ply Reporter, the high - speed peeling machine of Star, CTC attracted buyers but the key attraction was top - bottom sanding, core jointers and core composers. According to info received, there were commitments made for 25core composers, 30 - 35 sanding, 10 - 12 calibrators, 15 to 20 dryers apart from chambers and sawing tools.