American Hardwood Supplement 2019

AMERICAN HARDWOOD Southeast Asia Supplement 2019
Sylvawood, Shanghai 2018
The fourth year of Sylvawood Expo
was held in the Shanghai Mart
Expo in June - a niche expo which
specializes in the timber-trade in
China. It is a good platform for the
wood industry to network, brings
more than 150 exhibitors from
15 countries and China’s exhibitors
and associations together. The
space was more than 6,000sqm
with a dedicated area for veneer
exhibitors attracting about 10,000
visitors, who were from all sectors
including flooring, furniture, kitchen
cabinets, doors, windows, interior
furnishing markets, construction
and architecture sectors. AHEC’s
27sqm-booth and its pavilion were
located at a prime location next to
the entrance, occupying 342sqm with 35 exhibitors in standard
booths, including the Hardwood States Export Group
Exhibiting companies were
Robinson Lumber, MacDonald &
Owen, Sonoking, Northwest, TRN
USA Forest, Brownlee, Ron Jones,
Kennebec, Wheeland, Northland
Corporation, American Lumber,
Somerset Wood, Baillie, Midwest,
Bingaman, Yoder, Rolling Ridge
Wood, Polaris, Cascade, Snowbelt,
UFP Int., Graf Brothers, Hermitage,
Kretz, Atlantic-Pacific, Turman,
Hardwoods of America, W.M. Cramer,
JT Shannon, Cole, Missouri Walnut,
Thompson, Mayfield and HHP. Other
members such as NHLA, North
Carolina Department of Agriculture,
Verde Wood, Penn-Sylvan and
foreign partner Qingdao CX Joy,
had their own booths.
IFMAC/WOODMAC, Jakarta 2018
The annual IFMAC/WOODMAC
international woodworking industry
show held in Jakarta, Indonesia in
September is mainly for machinery
manufacturers. Wood material
exhibitors were confined to exporters
from USA, Canada, France Germany,
Latvia and some Asian countries.
AHEC, housed in a thermally modified
timber (TMT) red oak pavilion, was
clearly the leading overseas timber
supplier. The pavilion and furniture
display was constructed of TMT
red oak, supplied by AHEC member
Bingaman, processed in Indonesia by
Omega Mas in Surabaya, with newly
designed TMT red oak furniture designed by Jarrod Lim.
A number of U.S.-based AHEC wood exporters, such as Gutchess
International, Robinson and Allegheny
Wood Products, visited the show; not to
forget a full team of five staff from AHEC
Foreign Partner Member APP Timber
based in Malaysia. The sole AHEC
member exhibiting independently was
the new AHEC Foreign Partner Member,
Global Timber, also based in Malaysia.
This AHEC category now numbers
17 companies. The veneer sector
was also quite well represented at
the show. Riga Veneer from Latvia, a
former Danzer Group company but
now independent, was offering a wide
range of temperate species including
American hardwood veneers. Tops
Timber and Veneers from Nanjing offered a worldwide range of
hardwood veneers including most American species.
FMC Premium, Shanghai 2018
The 24 th FMC in Shanghai’s New International Expo Center
(SNIEC) in September 2018 covered nearly 300,000sqm for both
furniture categories and machinery and attracted over 40,000
visitors from all over the world. It aimed to promote industrial
materials upgrading and establish a one-stop communication
platform for latest technologies, products and solutions,
thus providing an excellent opportunity for AHEC, NHLA, the
Hardwood States Export Group and the U.S. hardwood industry
to meet directly with interested wood buyers. The AHEC Pavilion
exhibited some TMT red oak furniture and totalled 31 booths of
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