Reviving Strong Vitality: Nearly 13,000 Wood Industry Enterprises, Including Wood Processing and Panel Manufacturing, in Linyi

2025-08-01 Source: Linyi Municipal Media Center

From wood processing to machinery manufacturing, from panel production to whole-house customization, Linyi's wood industry is constantly climbing along the extension of the industrial chain. Through strengthening, supplementing, and extending the chain, the "China Panel Capital" is displaying the strong vitality of traditional industrial transformation and upgrading with the posture of a hundreds-of-billions-level industrial cluster.

Entering the production workshop of Linyi Xintianyi Machinery Co., Ltd., a set of equipment ready to be shipped abroad is being urgently prepared. As a company specializing in the manufacture of engineered wood machinery, the company has successfully opened up the foreign market with its excellent price-performance ratio. "Our advanced equipment is very popular, and foreign orders account for about 60% of our company's business. It is because of this foundation in China that we have the ability to expand abroad." said Wang Jiqiang, deputy general manager of Linyi Xintianyi Machinery Co., Ltd.

Xintianyi started manufacturing engineered wood machinery in 1992, developing almost simultaneously with Linyi's wood industry. In order to allow enterprises in the wood industry chain to develop with peace of mind, the government not only leads enterprises to participate in various domestic and international exhibitions, but also provides support to enterprises in terms of policies and finance. "The Linyi panel base has driven Linyi's panel machinery. Once the reputation is established, foreign orders come in. Now loans are very easy to obtain. As long as our factory says it needs funds, the money can be loaned out quickly, within a week or two." Wang Jiqiang told the reporter.

In Linyi, there are many wood machinery manufacturing enterprises like Xintianyi. Most of them do not have a large production scale, and the locally developed wood industry is the most solid foundation for their development. Xingang Group is one of Xintianyi's clients. As a leading enterprise in Linyi's panel processing, Xingang Group has a very large annual equipment demand. "Linyi's wood industry cluster is particularly high, and there are also many supporting woodworking equipment. We can feedback our actual production situations to the manufacturers, and the manufacturers can modify the equipment based on our requirements, so that the manufactured equipment can better meet our production needs." said Meng Desen, head of the R&D department of Xingang Enterprise Group. Timely resolution of equipment problems has saved Xingang Group a lot of time compared to its peers, allowing it to better focus its energy on the R&D of new products.

In order to keep up with the wave of transformation and upgrading of the traditional wood industry, in recent years, Xingang Group has invested more than 100 million yuan annually in the research and development of bionic green Adhesives However, due to the lack of reference templates for the products among peers, the company's R&D journey has been exceptionally difficult. "R&D is mainly at the laboratory level, and the products produced are also laboratory products, which are controllable. However, the production process is continuous and automated, which means that we do not have much experience to guide our production in the production process." said Meng Desen. In order to solve the problems encountered in R&D, the company decisively cooperated with a domestic academician workstation. After nearly 20 years of continuous efforts, it finally produced Xingang bionic glue with zero aldehyde, zero benzene, and zero harmful substance additives. Once launched, the product quickly occupied the domestic high-end panel market. Linyi's local whole-house furniture companies also valued the product's environmental protection performance, and successfully obtained the materials due to their proximity and fast transportation.

In the production workshop of Oupu Home Furnishings, the reporter is holding a wood panel produced by Xingang Group. The wood panel travels less than one kilometer from the factory to the downstream enterprise for processing. Oupu Home Furnishings, as a company specializing in the production of whole-house customized furniture, can find all kinds of wood panels it needs within a radius of a few kilometers. As a downstream enterprise of panel processing, since its establishment in the 1990s, Oupu Home Furnishings has witnessed the rise and fall of Linyi's panel industry. "In the early days when we did whole-house customization, most of them were from other brands. Ten years ago, people thought that Linyi's products were generally of poor quality, unqualified, and did not meet environmental protection standards." Jiang Zilan, chairman of Oupu Home Furnishings Group, told the reporter. With the continuous upgrading of Linyi's wood industry, product quality has significantly improved, and the industrial chain has gradually improved, attracting more and more enterprises to invest and build factories in Linyi. Gradually, Linyi has become a product information distribution center for the national wood industry, and its unique logistics advantages have saved a lot of capital costs for downstream panel processing enterprises like Oupu. "Domestically well-known high-quality brands all have warehouses in Linyi. Linyi's local panels are available in single-piece shipments; you can buy one piece and it will be shipped. This is very good and convenient for our enterprises, and we don't need to store large amounts of inventory, saving some inventory funds." said Jiang Zilan.

"Efficient interconnection and intercommunication can be achieved without leaving the park. In terms of park services, the entire park has a supporting service center to provide one-stop services for enterprises. We focus on attracting enterprises with urgent shortcomings and, at the same time, form a complete industrial chain around the upstream and downstream of the industry, including upstream and downstream enterprises." Zhao Yanlong, a staff member of the Lanshan District High-end Panel and Green Smart Home Furnishing Industrial Chain Special Team, said.

Over 30 years, with the in-depth development of the wood industry, our city has formed five sub-industrial chains: panels, whole-house customized furniture, impregnated paper, decorative paper, wood machinery, and adhesives, becoming the largest artificial Plywood production, export, and trading base, the largest decorative paper production base, and the largest wood machinery production base. It has nearly 13,000 wood industry enterprises, including wood processing and panel manufacturing, with an annual output value of over 300 billion yuan for the entire industrial chain and 1 million employees. According to statistics, Linyi currently has 1,583 large-scale wood industry enterprises, ranking first among the city's eight major leading industries. In 2024, the wood industry achieved a total industrial output value of 135.15 billion yuan.

"Next, the municipal special team will, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the city's landmark industrial chain work, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the "China Panel Capital" into the "Green Smart Home Capital," promote the integration of industrial chains, innovation chains, and value chains, and coordinate green, intelligent, clustered, and branded development. At the same time, with the Linyi wood industry regional brand as the leader, we will organize enterprises to actively integrate into the Belt and Road Initiative, and actively expand overseas business to countries and regions such as the Middle East, Africa, and South America." Jiao Yuhui, a staff member of the municipal high-end panel and green smart home furnishing industrial chain special team, said.

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