Eurostat reports that imports of parquet into the European Union last year were up again, by a little more than 9% to 24.667m m². 2010 had already seen imports increase by almost 6% after 2008 and 2009 had shown significant declines in ...
In recent weeks Pfleiderer has managed to substantiate the selling process, already prepared for a period of several months, for the European and North American laminate flooring activities which are consolidated in Pergo. At the end of ...
Tags: laminate flooring, Pfleiderer, the French commercial bank BNP Paribas
The Austrian one-stop supplier for interior and exterior wooden flooring Meyer Parkett is further increasing the scope of its cooperation with the Polish parquet manufacturer Barlinek. As such, Meyer is taking over exclusive distributorship ...
Tags: Austrian, one-stop supplier, wooden flooring, cooperation, Polish, parquet
The Spanish parquet manufacturer Maderas Iglesias, which had only in May 2011 successfully concluded a three-month provisional insolvency process („Preconcurso de acreedores"), was forced after all to file for bankruptcy ...
Tags: Spanish, parquet, Maderas Iglesias, bankruptcy
The US company Louisiana-Pacific plans to expand its European distribution of engineered wood products (EWP) launched in the UK in 2010 into the markets in continental Europe as well this year. The EWP are being sold in the UK under the ...
Tags: US, Louisiana-Pacific, EWP, Belgian
The laminate manufacturer Formica intends to close down the Galdakao HPL plant in Bilbao trading as Formica S.A. by the end of 2012 and concentrate laminate production in Spain at the Valencia site. The decision was announced by the ...
Tags: laminate, Formica, Galdakao HPL, Bilbao, Fletcher Building
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently has awarded three new DOT numbers to auto glass-related product manufacturers, two based in the United States and one in China. DOT No. 989 was awarded to Palram Americas Inc. in ...
Tags: New DOT Numbers, Auto Glass, Total Plastics Inc., Decoration
On November 17 to 19, Shahe (Hebei) National New Industry Demonstration Base Investment and Financing meeting was held on Shahe. There are about 2000 officials from the national ministries and commissions and provincial department attended ...
Tags: Construction
AUSTRALIAN stocks are expected to start the last full trading week before Christmas on a cautious note amid ongoing negotiations over the looming US budget deadline. Futures trading was pointing to a weak start on the local market today, ...
Tags: Markets Struggle, Fiscal Cliff, US budget
Saint-Gobain Sekurit has secured a brand-new deal with the French auto major Renault as it gets set to roll out the off-roader 'Duster' on the Indian roads. Sekurit will stand to gain as the single biggest glass supplier for this programme, ...
Tags: Saint-Gobain Sekurit, Renault, Glass Mate
As a World’s first, no less than 300m2 of dye sensitized solar cells will be integrated to the facade of the EPFL’s Convention Center. This prototype will constitute the first application of such technology to a public building. ...
Tags: Stained Glass Solar Windows, Swiss Tech Convention Center, Decoration
Stained Low-E glass windows are the windows that truly have a magnificent effect and certainly make you feel that you are living in another world. When the bright shining sun takes a glimpse at your house, you will get a feeling that air of ...
Tags: coated glass, laminated Glass, Low-E Glass, tempered glass
12.12.2012 − Since October, the Russian plywood industry has been confronted with a scarcity of better-quality birch roundwood. Against that backdrop, mills have for several weeks been able to produce and offer only limited volumes of ...
Tags: plywood, plywood production, birch roundwood, B quality plywood
UK - University Campus Oldham (UCO) and Oldham Coliseum Theatre are launching a Teaching Theatre Partnership that they say will "lead the way forward in offering the opportunity to study performance and technical theatre at university ...
Tags: UCO, Oldham Coliseum Theatre, teaching theatre partnership
UK - West Midlands-based video and production specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) will be the main supplier of specialist broadcast and AV equipment to the re-launched Giltbrook Studios in Nottingham. Giltbrook offers a cutting ...
Tags: CPL, Giltbrook Studios Venture, UK