Japan Earthquake 9 march 2011 Effect to Woodworking Industry

Even every dissaster happen in this world have an effect to our country industry, especially with earthquake.., there will be a booming order from Japan especially in flooring, decking, building component and furniture immediately. So what should we do?

Just hold your stock for a little bit longer for waiting for this order (it will be about 4 or 5 month), because anyone that have a ready stock product will have the order especially for contemporer design furniture and building component (ussually using finger joint) product, maybe it will be look's like wasting our money and gambling for this situation, but I think, there will be some result from it...

Like we all know, that Japan product have the highest price in the market, so start to look for it, get your marketing team to start investigate this market NOW, remember that Japan market loves solid wood a lot, China doesn't have any good solid wood, Thailand have a problem with the infrastructure that caused the transportation time get slower, so Indonesia is the best way for them, we got a lot of solid woods right....

For decking and flooring, we know that Japan market have a different standard sizes for this product, so start to stock your material, so when you have the market, you can cut your logs using the Japan standard sizes, don't stock the finish product because there will be higher risk for this gambling...

But afterall it just one of my opinion, so it will be up to you how to get into the market and handle this kind of situation, remember that we must look at all of the factor not only what I write down here...., GOOD LUCK..., God Bless Indonesia...

Wood Prices Getting too Expensive.

Ya, it is true that wood prices are getting higher each day, but remember that not only your business that have this situation, but all of woodworking factory are having the same problem….

And so now everyone complaining the material price is too expensive and the selling price that you cannot raised it…, the simple thing is if everyone think the same way as we are, then there will be no woodworking factory in the world, even China still growing in this business…, and they got their material from us (the transport price are not cheap ok…), they have their rules that to export their finish wood product, they must import their material from other country like as Indonesia, Russia, etc. , the worker salary are now about 400 USD, it’s not cheap anymore. So you can imagine how difficult the situation for them..

But you see even they have this kind of situation; they still survived and earning money and even earning more money than us…! That is silly.., but that is the truth..., it just they used the wood with a good production system, than even a tiny single dust will be a different…

Wood prices will always going higher and higher…, but it’s not a matter to get sad and frustrated, but it’s a matter about how we handle this situation, for woodworking industry, the wood trend are going to higher level…, higher level market.., not getting to lower end market.., so forget it if you still making a product that is still a material for your buyer, but you THINK that you sell’s them at good price like a finish wood product…, they will sell them with a better price and don’t think they must sell them to each end user…, they are wholesaler, with a big network…, so start your own network…,trust me about it…

Start to produce a good quality product, start to build a market network about it, because you will not able to sell junk in the future, you will selling a good quality product for a higher level market, and believe me that this market level are not that small…, it just need more effort and skill to get into it…, improve your production facility with a good system not a system that only wasting your money…

Other thing to solved this problem is to improve your production system, there are a lot of different system for each factory…., remember that even with the same production machines, same material, same layout, there will be different result, the things that made them different are MANAGEMENT…!

Start to be better in a hard situation, that meant the one that survived and improving is the one who is able to improved them self and became the market leader…