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Article: In search of fresh fibre
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- Wood Based Panels International
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Richard Higgs
Forestal Terranova SA is the latest Chilean forest products group to strike out abroad in search of fresh fibre sources to feed its expansion into promising new foreign panel markets.
Last year, the Santiago-based company set out to exploit rich untapped fibre sources in Brazil and Venezuela with investment in forest plantations and sawmills worth over US$80m.
Chile's top panel manufacturer, Maderas y Sinteticos SA (Masisa), led the way with MDF and particleboard mills now operating in Argentina and new plans for another MDF line in Brazil Paneles Arauco SA may build an MDF mill in Argentina where it has invested in plantations and pulp ...