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Dry-process MDF is the material that overcomes heterogeneous characteristics of woody resources, and it has been used steadily in many industrial and life fields. In terms of MDF business, raw materials should be considered preferentially because they are responsible for the largest aspect of manufacturing costs. MDF process, which has the process of disassembly into fibers and reassembly into panel, received influence of wood properties such as fiber length, extractives content, and maturity. Looking at the usage of species by region, softwood species are used in Europe and North America, hardwood species are in Asia, respectively. In the case of South Korea, red pine and radiate pine have been mainly used due to optimized manufacture condition and excellent board quality result from long fiber length characteristics. However, the governmental price support for bio-energy industry and the reduction of logging by environmental issues continue to reduce the supply of raw materials for board business. There are two strategies to solve resources shortage problem. Firstly, as a method of moving production bases to overseas regions rich in raw materials, such as Vietnam and Malaysia, it is mainly used by this company (Korea). Once the production is optimized for the new species in the area, it can be successfully profitable. Before, it should be necessary to overcome the problem that it is not easy to build deforestation infrastructure in develop forest area. Secondly, recycled materials is researched and applied by several companies. Outstanding technique and effort are required in order to solve some problem such as difficulty in perfect refining, low fiber quality, and impurities addition. On the other hand, the fact that can contribute to carbon neutrality is fascinating. Korean companies are taking a multi-pronged approach to securing MDF resources. Our company is currently undergoing a new development in northern Vietnam, but is struggling with a number of issues, including the absence of professional logging companies and the establishment of rival company around our site. Expansion to new regions that have not yet entered the market is also being planned, with Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia being cited as the next destinations.