The potential looming for the '90s is greater than ever, but '92 is proving to be a levelling-off year. New plants are on stream in Chile, Austria and UK, but the big surge of '90/'91 is not being repeated this year. Ward Williams analyses our latest world capacity table.

ALTHOUGH INTEREST IN medium density fibreboard has never been higher than it is at the moment, 1992 will not go into the history books as a spectacular year for MDF capacity expansion. A glance at our MDF statistics in WBPI in September '90 and '91 reveals a major surge in the number of new plants and newly ...