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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 22
Southeast Asia Supplement 2019 AMERICAN HARDWOOD 30 AHEC members including Allegheny, American Lumber, Baillie, Battle, Bingaman, Blue Mountain, CK International, Cascade, CLC, Cole, Global, , Hartzell Hardwoods, Hermitage, Kamps, Kennebec, Linden, Midwest Hardwoods, Midwest Walnut, Northwest, Pioneer, Republic Forest Products, Shannon, Somerset, Sonoking, TRN USA Forest, Turman, Verde and W. M Cramer. AHEC director John Chan said the FMC show is an excellent platform for AHEC members and AHEC to network with the wood traders, importers, designers and architects and media. AHEC collected around 200 trade contacts during the 4-day show. VIFA, Saigon 2019 AHEC made a spectacular promotion of Red oak at VIFA 2019 show, joining forces with the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCMC (HAWA). Nobody could have missed the red oak prominently on display this year with an exhibition stand entirely constructed of red oak lumber and 18 selected pieces of red oak furniture, located in the entrance lobby to the show. The winning furniture designs by contestants in the annual Hoa Mai furniture design competition, all made with red oak lumber donated by the Rossi Group, were displayed in a red oak pavilion The VIFA Expo show is now considered the ‘must visit’ international event in the March series of furniture shows in Southeast Asia. advertising American Red Oak and the AHEC pavilion distributed AHEC publications and a bi-lingual flyer explaining the purpose of the display. The full corporate names of all AHEC member companies mentioned in this report can be found at the end of this publication and online at www.americanhardwood.org Clearly the largest (25,000sqm) so far with 514 exhibitors, VIFA provided many examples of furniture products in various species of U.S. hardwoods manufactured in Vietnam by joint venture companies as well as local wholly-owned Vietnamese manufacturers. Among the usual exhibitors of wood materials were 10 North American companies (and three trade associations) including Classic American Hardwoods, Midwest, Northwest Hardwood, Oak Valley, Ontario Hardwood Products, Peladeau, Primewood, Thompson, Trans-Pacific Trading and W.M. Cramer as well as local Vietnamese companies offering U.S. hardwood such as Go My Co. The show catalogue included a full page 23
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