From "one board" to "one chain" - Lanshan Wood Industry accelerates transformation and upgrading with "new" quality improvement

How much "technological content" can a board carry?

In Lanshan District, the answer is constantly being refreshed: without traditional formaldehyde-containing adhesives, bionic adhesives make "formaldehyde-free glue" a thing of the past; dozens of precision processes are completed in one go on the intelligent production line, and the old problems of traditional plywood easy to crack and carbonize are solved one by one by the new process; a continuous flat pressing production line makes veneable plywood move from "multiple pressing" to "one-time molding".

These changes in the workshop and laboratory point to the same fact: Lanshan Wood Industry is undergoing a deep transformation from "quantity" to "quality".

Wood industry is the pillar industrial industry of Lanshan District. As the core bearing area of "China's sheet metal capital", Lanshan District gathers more than 3,500 wood industries and supporting enterprises. In 2025, the output value of wood enterprises will be 52.37 billion yuan. When the scale of the industry reaches a certain level, what will it take to continue to move forward? Lanshan's answer is: forge "quality" and "innovation" into new keywords.

"Innovation Code" in a board

In the transformation of traditional industries, products and technologies are indispensable breakthroughs.

At Xingang Group, the innovation of a board begins with "glue". The company takes inspiration from the natural adhesion mechanism of mussels and relies on the academician workstation to develop a bionic green adhesive to achieve zero addition of harmful substances such as formaldehyde and benzene in the whole process of production. The bionic ultra-thin fiberboard made of this glue won the first gold medal of the Geneva International Invention Exhibition in the global wood industry. Since then, it has won the first prize of the 2025 Shandong Province Science and Technology Progress Award, creating a precedent for the national board industry to win the first prize of the provincial science and technology progress award led by an enterprise.

Technological breakthroughs change not just a product, but also the way a company competes. Xingang's research funding for biomimetic green adhesives has remained above 100 million yuan for many years, and product certifications cover multiple dimensions such as pregnancy and infant, child safety, aldehyde-free, and green products. From "production" to "technology", the book of innovation is being rewritten.

This logic is not unique in Lanshan Wood Industry. Shandong Shengchang New Materials has built the world's first fully automated plywood veneer continuous flat pressing production line, which has overcome the key technical problems of continuous production of veneer plywood.

The production efficiency is increased by 4 times, the comprehensive cost is reduced by 25%, and the pain point of traditional production "low efficiency and high consumption" is solved in one fell swoop. Qianshan Group extends from plate production to integrated whole house customization, embedding automation and standardization in every link from substrate to finished product.

From the bionic inspiration of a drop of glue to the continuous flat pressing of a production line, innovation is entering every step of the Lanshan wood manufacturing chain.

From "Manufactured Products" to "Manufactured Quality"

The industrial competition has entered a new stage, and the competition is not only about output and scale, but also about the stability of quality, standard control, and brand value.

Shandong Qingyuan Wood Industry extends the industrial chain upstream and downstream, and builds an integrated production system from log source procurement to floor grooving processing. With the stability of process and quality, it has become the core supplier of many well-known brand flooring enterprises. Shandong Huange Decoration aims at the sub-track of ultra-thin fiberboard, introduces a full set of intelligent equipment imported from Derui, and builds a northern benchmark ultra-thin fiberboard production line to continuously expand the application boundary of ultra-thin plates with fine manufacturing.

Different paths point in the same direction: to shape the advantage with quality - more and more enterprises put "quality" throughout the entire chain from raw materials to production and processing, from process control to product application, and promote the transformation of wood products from "usable" to "easy to use", from large-scale manufacturing to quality manufacturing.

Supporting this transformation is the continuous construction of innovation platforms. At present, Lanshan Wood Industry has 33 municipal-level innovation platforms and 10 provincial-level innovation platforms. It has built the first wood industry dual-academician workstation in the country, and has obtained more than 230 wood-related patents. It has been cultivated cumulatively. China, Chi Ming, 2 trademarks, 1 "Haopin Shandong", 2 Mayor Quality Awards, 4 "Yimeng Haopin", and 3 companies have participated in the Shandong Province Brand Promotion Star Action. The old label of "no R & D, no patent, no brand" is being covered by hard indicators one by one.

"Made in Lanshan" accelerates towards "Made in Lanshan Quality"

Wood industry is a traditional industry, but traditional industries do not mean traditional production methods.

Today's Lanshan Wood Industry has high-speed intelligent equipment on the production line, and continuous iterative technology research and development in the laboratory. There are not only manufacturing enterprises that have deeply cultivated the subdivision track, but also new explorations that extend to whole house customization and brand operation. Behind the change is the transformation of development logic: no longer relying solely on the scale expansion of "one board", but to "one chain" for efficiency and quality.

At the park level, Lanshan District has built a high-standard wood industry upgrade zone covering an area of 6,500 mu, focusing on the two main directions of wood intelligent manufacturing and hardcover home furnishing, promoting enterprises to enter the park and gather, and opening up the whole chain of board production, veneer processing, and whole house customization. At the mechanism level, special classes on high-end board and green smart home industry chain are run concretely, compiling industry chain maps, layout maps, and investment maps, and making continuous efforts in scientific and technological innovation, brand value, and overseas markets.

Relying on technological breakthroughs and authoritative certifications, a group of local wood brands have deeply participated in the revision of standards, turning "quality" from a self-requirement within the enterprise into a common language at the industry level. The industry reputation of "the world's board looks at China, and the Chinese board looks at Lanshan" is being given a new connotation of quality and brand.

One tree and one product, see what you know.

Through a piece of board, you can see a company's commitment to quality, and you can also see the clear steps of a traditional industrial cluster moving from scale advantage to quality advantage and brand advantage. The transformation of Lanshan Wood Industry has not started from scratch, but has carved a new height in the most familiar wood.