New poplar base wood flooring made a sensation

At the World Flooring Conference held at the end of March, Zhejiang Shiyou Wood Company launched solid wood flooring with poplar as the base material, which caused the industry to shake. The reason why the industry is shaken is that no company has used poplar as a floor material before, and this move has opened the industry. As a fast-growing material, poplar's shortcomings are very obvious: the material is soft, dry and deformable, and poorly decorated. Through the breakthrough of technology, World Friends applied poplar wood flooring manufacturing, not only opening up a new path for low-carbon emission reduction, but also creating conditions for the Chinese flooring industry to get rid of the situation of relying on foreign materials.

According to Hu Zaiqi, deputy general manager of Worldfriends Floor, it is not easy to overcome the defects of poplar wood and transform it into a solid wood floor. The World Friends broke through three major technical difficulties. First of all, through the wood surface compression optimization technology to improve the density of poplar wood plate, so that it has obtained sufficient mechanical strength; Second, through the optimization of wood charring technology, improve the stability of the plate, so that the plate can be used for heating solid wood flooring; Third, The use of wood surface PDL full penetration printing technology has changed the disadvantages of poor poplar decorative performance, making the wood texture more clear and natural, more rich and full color, better visual effects.

To overcome technical difficulties and use poplar wood as raw materials for solid wood floors, Shiyou Wood has made significant progress in exploring the path of low-carbon emission reduction. According to reports, fast-growing wood used in poplar wood flooring has many advantages, such as fast growth, short production cycle, strong regeneration ability, carbon fixation capacity is 7-8 times that of ordinary solid wood flooring, is an important species of carbon reduction . Wang Man, executive director of the China Forest Products Association, believes that under the market environment where the country is actively developing a low-carbon economy and consumers are constantly pursuing a low-carbon quality of life, the advantages of fast-growing solid wood flooring will become more and more obvious, and will gradually dominate the floor market. , Flooring companies should make full use of domestic fast-growing materials, so that low-carbon flooring into millions of households.

The use of poplar wood raw materials for solid wood flooring is even more significant for the Chinese flooring industry. The history of raw materials heavily dependent on imports may change. It is reported that poplar, a fast-growing forest, has about 8 million forest plots in China, ranking first in the world. Another reality is that at present, more than 80% of raw materials for solid wood flooring in China still need to be imported. Having such a large amount of storage, it still depends on foreign resources. The reason is that China's flooring industry has no ability to use poplar wood for processing and manufacturing. The result of over-reliance on imports is the impact of exporting countries on prices and supply. Recently, China's domestic solid wood flooring resources shortage and price increases, an important reason is the amount of deforestation cut in Southeast Asia and South America, the rise in international oil prices led to the soaring prices of raw materials.

According to Zhang Lin, Honorary Chairman of the China Forest Product Industry Association, Shiyou Wood has made substantial progress in the “industrial technology of poplar wood flooring”, which indicates that China has mastered the global floor core technology. As a kind of renewable resource with short growth cycle and large planting area, fast-growing wood can effectively solve the problem of raw materials in the flooring industry if it can be fully and effectively used. “This will bring new development opportunities to China's flooring industry.”