The management of Gabon SEZ has decided not to give industrial plot/license for standalone Face Veneer manufacturing for next one year because: the wastage from these units is very high [around 40%]. GSEZ is planning to utilize the most of part of logs because it is natural resource, whereas the efficiency of the face veneer peeling in terms of output product to
raw material input varies from 50 to 55% and most of the wood waste coming from these face veneer peeling unit is being wasted.
For getting proper utilization of wood, GSEZ is promoting to set up Plywood and Particle Board manufacturing units within its zone. Hence, they are now only offering option of establishing an integrated plywood-cumveneer plant wherein investor will have to install a minimum of 2 plywood presses of 10 daylights each if it wants to do processing of up to 2000 cbm of Okoumé
logs for production of face veneer.
GSEZ wishes the existing face veneer units to stabilize their business and augment their production capacities to export around 1000 containers of face veneer per month on cumulative basis from existing export of around 450 containers per month.
GSEZ informs to the Ply Reporter that an existing investor from India has finalized to establish a particle board plant in the SEZ with a production capacity of 300 cbm per day. They have already started the construction and likely to be in production by Q1 of 2020.