Forest industrialization increased by 10% in two years.

The head of Infona pointed out during the Sunday agro-talk, where we discussed the takeoff of the forestry sector in Paraguay, that the export of products from forest plantations has seen a significant shift towards processed products, with plywood and sheets standing out. At the same time, she highlighted that the processing level of eucalyptus in the local industry increased by 10%. "The raw material used by our industries has gone from using 60% eucalyptus to 70% and only 30% native wood in two years; we see an emerging market for plywood and sheets, engineered flooring, and construction wood," she highlighted. She added that this year plywood and sheets have recorded significant increases in exports from forestry producers. "Since March, we have been breaking export records; we stopped publishing them as records because they were consecutive and we were impressed by the way in which at least 5 to 10% more was exported each month compared to the previous month," she noted. She ...