The first rice straw-based medium density fiberboard (MDF) plant in Africa is to be built in Egypt. The US$228m facility will be used to turn rice straw into fibreboard. Over 2 million feddans with an average production of about 6.12 million tons per year and 9.5 tons per hectare are cultivated. The processing process yields large amounts of rice straw as residue, 80% of which is burnt in the fields. The second facility of its kind in the worldThe rice straw-based medium density fiberboard (MDF) plant upon completion will be the second of its kind in the world after the CalPlant 1 agfiber panel manufacturing facility in California.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 11, 2020 08:03 UTC