News from Juken set to reverberate

Five years on from a restructure that saw Juken NZ lay off half of the 200 people working at its mill at Matawhero — as it stopped production of plywood and laminated timber products because of a slowdown in the Japanese housing market, to focus on high-value solid wood products — the mill that has been the major player in wood processing here for the past three decades looks set for closure.

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