Overview of MDF Boards

Medium density  board which also called MDF boards is the most flexible building products since it is affordable and pretty resilient, it’s the ideal choice for realistic tasks like racks and storage space units. But MDF is great for decorative tasks too. The sleek area is perfect for artwork, and a wireless router results in sharp information with no splintering, losing or tear-out.

MDF  board is generally seen dust and adhesive, merged together under stress and heat. It differs in color from tan to candy brownish. Common thicknesses range from 1/4 in. to 1 in, but most house facilities bring only 1/2-in. and 3/4-in. MDF costs about very genuine. Some house facilities also bring MDF forums in various measures and sizes. Dealing with MDF is no different from operating with timber or plywood; you use the same resources to cut and shape it.

As the Best MDF Suppliers Greenpanelmax supply their best products in genuine rates.

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Greenply: :Leading Interior Infrastructure Company

Greenply count as the best interior infrastructure company in India and they serve their products throughout the world.Some of their products are MDF boards ,decorative laminates, block boards, flush door,decorative veneers and many more.

 

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Shobhan Mittal talked about the investments he has made in India and What have been the difficulties in those projects?

The biggest difficulty in India to set up new wood-based panel plants is of course the barriers set by the government. There is a lot of red tape, a lot of licenses required, and a lot of restrictions because of certain rulings of the Supreme Court which prevent industries being installed in certain areas close to natural forests. Then you need to have licenses from the Central Government as well as licenses from the State Government and various other government bodies. There are very stringent pollution policies, raw material policies.

Getting more specific to the installation of plants, one of the big obstacles for Indian industry is a lack of technology and expertise within the country. There are not a lot of indigenous machine manufacturers, technology providers or for that matter, even consultants. We are still running very conventional and outdated technology. If you want to be innovative in your product offering and if you want to increase efficiency and reduce your costs to be competitive with foreign products easily available in the market, you still have to go abroad to find that technology.

Another very big difficulty is the finance cost in India is very high. We pay 13 or 14 % per annum which results in a very high interest cost and reduces our operating efficiency. One of the biggest obstacles is securing raw material. Due to the blanket ban by the government in using natural forest timber, we are completely dependent on agro-forestry as well as imported raw materials. This makes our industry very inefficient compared to foreign producers who have abundant raw material resources available to them due to existing sustainable forest management policies being practiced by their governments. For instance, most European countries permit the usage of natural forest timber to their industries, yet, at the same time, the forest cover growth has been increasing year on year. It's a win-win situation as the industries get the resources, and the Government's objectives towards the environment are fulfilled. We, in India, need such policies and practices.

Also, in capital-intensive industries like MDF, power is a very big cost apart from being very critical to the optimal running of the plant. Unfortunately, the Indian infrastructure is not up to the mark where it can provide consistent, good quality electrical power at a good price. Power, being about 8 or 9 % of the product cost, if not consistent and of good quality, you have a lot of losses. If the plant keeps tripping, with every trip in the MDF plant, let's say two hours of production is gone because the moment one thing stops, the entire line stops. These are infrastructural issues that we face when thinking of new investment.

We don't have options of cheap freight. We are always using trucks. We don't have the option of efficient rail freight, which the government is not very active or friendly about, whereas if you look at factories in Europe or America, they just transport everything by train and it is extremely cheap to do so. As a result of using small trucks to transport our goods, there are a lot of damages, a lot of accidents and a lot of losses.

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Shobhan Mittal: About the Greenply Company's Beginnings?

Greenply was started with a small sawmill almost a quarter century ago. Our Chairman is a very competent man with regards to this industry. In fact, earlier he used to work with the top plywood company in the country, which was Kitply. He progressed on to become the Vice Chairman of that company, so he gained a lot of experience and expertise at that time. He is also the driver of a lot of the innovations in the plywood industry that India has seen. That experience and his dedication towards his work led him to form this company and he has driven that ever since. Slowly but steadily, we have progressed to come to this position that we are in at the moment. We've done a lot of horizontal integration: we started off with plywood then we got into the manufacturing of laminates. We decided to offer an entire basket of products that go to this particular sector of users.


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What Have Been The Key Factors in Greenply's SUCCESS?

One of the key factors that have led us to be the market leader has, of course, been our obsession with quality in the products that we offer in the market. We have always opted to invest in the best technologies. We invested into the largest plywood manufacturing facility in the country with the highest investment ever made. We were also the first people to install a continuous press for the manufacture of Medium Density Fiberboards (MDF) in the country. We truly believe in economies of scale and this is why we opted to invest into such a large MDF plant with 600 m3/day capacity at a point when no one could imagine, that kind of quantity could be sold in the country~ We had the confidence on our distribution network, on our product quality and on our brand, that we would be able to achieve those figures and we are actually achieving those figures today.

Also the ability to take risks - we took the decision to invest into an MDF plant when the world economy was absolutely at a low point and most industries were backing out of new investments. We actually thought of it as the perfect time to make an investment. We assumed that the market economy would pick up in the coming years. It was also an opportunity to get very competitive rates in terms of our capital expenditure and our loans. It worked out beautifully for us.

These factors, our obsession with quality, willingness to take risks, our confidence in our brand, and, of course, the fact that we also command one of the strongest distribution and retail networks in the country are all key factors that have contributed to Greenply’s position today. There is a customer faith involved as well; do we stand behind our products?? Do we service them properly?? We were the first people in the country to offer lifetime-guaranteed plywood. This has resulted in a lot of goodwill for our company in the Indian market.

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