NEWS

DHA elected David Williams of Great Lakes Veneer as Vice Chairman, joining Mark Avery, Timber Products, Chairman, and Jeremy Manthei, Manthei Veneer, as Immediate Past Chairman. New board members are John Tappan, Columbia Forest Products, Blaine Burroughs, AHF Industries, and Eric Larsen, Rockshield Engineered Wood Products.

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Decorative Hardwoods Association will slide our annual in-person meetings forward; the venues remain the same. The new dates are May 23-25, 2021 for the 100th anniversary celebration and meeting at the Sonesta Resort at Hilton Head, SC. We'll kick off DHA's next century at The Palmer House in Chicago May 15-17, 2022.

Since 2015, Vietnam has approved investments from 11 countries in 53 plywood projects, for a total of $243 million of foreign investment in plywood manufacturing. The largest outside investments occurred in 2016.

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Decorative Hardwoods Association (formerly HPVA) eNews Volume XIII, Issue XIII: U.S. Customs Cracks Down On Plywood Importers | U.S. Rescinds Administrative Review Of Chinese Hardwood Plywood Duties | AHF Products Moves Production From Shanghai To Cambodia | Flooring Workers Are A “Hot Spot” For COVID-19 Cases 

AHF Products will close its engineered flooring plant in China and supply U.S. markets from its Sihanoukville, Cambodia plant instead. The Cambodian facility has tripled its capacity over the past 12 months and intends to double that capacity between now and the first quarter of 2021.

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