The major products include plywood (97 percent) and industrial broomsticks (3 percent) which are mostly exported to Republic of Korea, the US, Thailand (70 percent) and Japan, India, Malaysia and others.

The plywood processing factory in Bac Giang province.

The province now has 61 wood processing facilities for export, 12 of which directly export wood processed products to foreign markets. Bac Giang is home to a material area of 80,000 hectares of planted forest with annual output of 600,000 cubic meters that basically meets the material demand for wood processing enterprises.

However, most of the local wood processing facilities are small and major exported products are plywood made by backward technology with high production cost and low competitiveness.

The material area of planted forest of Yen The Forestry Two Member Limited Company in Dong Vuong commune (Yen The district).

Otherwise, almost of planted forest area in the province yet to have sustainable forest management certificate which remains the huge challenge to export wood processed products to European market.

Also, there is loose linkage between forest growers and wood processing facilities as well as among the wood processing enterprises which fails to ensure the stable material source and product cost to tap the available potential in the province.

Export of wood pellets to Japan to rise

Vietnam’s Eastwood Energy JSC and Sweden’s CellMark Group signed a long-term contract in Ho Chi Minh City on August 8 to supply wood pellets to the Japanese market.

Diversifying wood products to enhance competitiveness

(BGO) – The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on August 8 organized a seminar on opportunities and challenges of wood processing and exporting wood products in the northern province of Bac Giang. 

CPTPP countries – potential markets for Vietnamese wood industry

Countries joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) are potential markets for Vietnamese wood firms, said Nguyen Ton Quyen, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association.

Green Ironwood Mushrooms produced in Son Dong district

(BGO) –The Mushroom Research and Development Center  (under the Agriculture Genetics Institute) is conducting the provincial level Technology Science Project of “Applying the technology science to build the model of green ironwood mushrooms production and development in Son Dong district, Bac Giang province”. 

Wood block exhibition spotlights Vietnam’s feudal names, capitals

An exhibition on names and capitals of Vietnam through the feudal age until 1945 as carved on printing wood blocks of the Nguyen dynasty opened in Hanoi on February 25.

Duong Dai Tien