China Forest Products Industry Association released the annual sales statistics of decorative paper and floor products.

China Forest Products Industry Association recently announced the annual sales statistics of decorative paper and flooring products in China. In 2023, the total sales volume of special base paper and flooring products for wood-based panels with certain scale enterprises in China increased and decreased. In 2023, the total sales volume of special base paper for wood-based panel veneer in enterprises with a certain scale in China was about 1,452,400 tons, up by 31.90% year-on-year. Among them, the sales volume of decorative base paper was 1,410,700 tons, a year-on-year increase of 33.48%; The sales volume of balanced paper was 32,300 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 10.28%; The sales volume of surface paper was 9400 tons, up 14.63% year-on-year. Among decorative base paper, plain paper was 378,200 tons, up 38.38% year-on-year; The base paper for printing was 1,032,500 tons, a year-on-year increase of 31.78%. In 2023, the total sales volume of floor products of enterprises with a certain scale in China was 663.2 million square meters, down 18.7% year-on-year. Among them, the total sales volume of wood and bamboo flooring was about 322.2 million square meters, down about 8.9% year-on-year; The sales volume of stone crystal floor is about 272 million square meters, down 30.1% year-on-year; The sales volume of wood-plastic flooring was about 69 million square meters, down 5.5% year-on-year. The export volume of wood-plastic flooring accounts for about 75%, and the outdoor wood-plastic flooring accounts for about 95%. Among the wood and bamboo flooring, the sales of laminate flooring was 142 million square meters, down 10.1% year-on-year; The sales of solid wood composite flooring was 120 million square meters, down 6.3% year-on-year; The sales of solid wood flooring was 30 million square meters, down 9.1% year-on-year; The sales of bamboo flooring was 25 million square meters, down 15.5% year-on-year; Other floors sold 5.2 million square meters, up 4.0% year-on-year. (Feng Lu)