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The heartwood of oak ranges from yellowish-brown to reddish-brown with distinct, slightly wavy growth rings. It is heavy and hard in texture, featuring straight grain, coarse structure, elegant color and beautiful texture. Boasting considerable mechanical strength and good wear resistance, oak wood is not easy to dry, saw or cut. Its surface presents an uneven tactile texture when touched. These properties make oak a commonly used board raw material. Among related products, red oak plywood is highly suitable for furniture production, especially for cabinets, back panels, side panels and decorative panels, featuring cost performance, easy processability and excellent structural stability.

The second phase of the 139th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) successfully concluded in Guangzhou on April 27. As an important platform in international trade, this session of the Canton Fair has once again attracted the attention of global merchants.

Steady Expansion of Market Scale and Sustained Positive Growth Momentum In recent years, relying on its excellent product performance, the film-faced plywood industry has witnessed a continuous increase in market demand and a steady expansion of industry scale. Both the global and domestic markets have maintained a sound growth momentum, among which the Asia-Pacific region, as a core market, continues to provide strong impetus for the industry's growth and promotes the overall development of the industry towards high quality.

China’s building materials industry is in a critical period of transformation from scale expansion to quality and efficiency benefits. Having stepped out of the high-speed growth stage, it has entered a new development cycle featuring stock optimization, structural differentiation and momentum transformation. Traditional sectors face adjustment pressure while emerging tracks grow rapidly. Green low-carbon development, digital intelligence and overseas market expansion have become the core development themes. The industry overall presents a trend of stable total volume, optimized structure and improved quality and efficiency, providing solid support for the stable operation of the national economy and industrial upgrading.

The core competitiveness of melamine plywood stems from its scientific and reasonable production process and comprehensive product characteristics. Its production process is based on multi-layer high-quality veneer, which goes through multiple strict processes such as air drying, drying, gluing and hot pressing to ensure the stable structure of the panel, which is not easy to deform or crack. The melamine resin layer bonded on the surface not only endows the panel with rich appearance texture, but also significantly improves the durability of the product—it has excellent wear resistance, scratch resistance and acid-alkali resistance, and is not easy to have surface damage, discoloration and other problems in daily use. No additional subsequent treatments such as painting and waxing are required, which greatly reduces the use cost and maintenance difficulty. Compared with traditional solid wood panels, melamine plywood effectively avoids the shortcomings of natural wood that is easy to get damp and moth-eaten, and at the same time makes full use of wood resources, realizing the dual goals of energy conservation, environmental protection and efficient resource utilization, which is in line with the current concept of green development.

As a core category in China's wood-based panel family, the particleboard industry is standing at a crucial juncture of in-depth adjustment and transformation. After decades of rapid expansion, the industry has made considerable progress in production capacity, technological equipment and application fields, and has become the world's largest particleboard production and consumption market. However, under the multiple pressures of the real estate market adjustment, stricter environmental protection standards and intensified internal competition, the industry is moving away from extensive growth and exploring a high-quality and sustainable development path through supply-side reform, technological innovation and green transformation.

A HPL panel, also known as a fire-resistant board, is a fire-resistant building material used for surface decoration. It has a variety of surface colors, textures and special physical properties. This kind of board not only has the light weight, flexibility and reprocessability of wood-based organic boards, but also has the fire resistance and water resistance of inorganic boards.

Walk through the Canton Fair's building materials hall and you'll see the same products flying off the shelves year after year. Plywood. WPC decking. Wooden furniture. These three categories have dominated export orders for the past three years running. The numbers back it up: China ships over 13 million cubic meters of plywood annually, WPC products are growing fast as buyers chase green credentials, and wood furniture exports hit 459 million pieces in 2024—a record high. We dug through customs records from 2023 to 2025 and spoke with dozens of exhibitors to find out what's actually selling and why.