Japan: New sawmill aims lumber export

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Toyama Co., Ltd. has purchased a property of 198,000 square meters to build a new domestic species sawmill at Shibushi, Kagoshima prefecture. The new mill will be completed in 2018. It intends to recapture market share of domestic wood from imported products and at the same time to aim export of lumber.

Toyama has three sawmills in Miyazaki prefecture with state of the art sawmilling machines. Annual log consumption is about 160,000 cbms.

The new mill would have 15% more production with annual log consumption of 100,000 cbms. Once this new lines start up, total log consumption by all the group mills would be about 300,000 cbms.

The president of Toyama says that the quality of lumber should be upgraded in time, thus covering higher grades. Production items are mainly solid wood housing materials, including cedar 2x4 lumber.

The company intends to overcome the declining trend of Japanese housing starts by grabbing market share in lumber export since the mill situates close to the port of Shibushi, which is the top wood exporting port in Japan.

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