ALMHULT, Sweden—That couch catching your eye in the 2013 edition of IKEA's new catalog may not be a couch at all. It is likely the entire living room was created by a graphic artist. In fact, much of the furniture and settings in the ...
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The 2008 collapse of the housing market devastated California's already faltering lumber industry. The housing market has been slow to recover, but new home construction has risen in the last year. David Bischel of the California Forestry ...
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Softwood sawlog prices continued their slide throughout the world in the 2Q/12, and the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) was down for the fourth consecutive quarter to $82.90/m3. The Index was down 3.4 % from the 1Q/12, and 11.5 % from ...
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The pressure on prices for finger-jointed window scantlings made from softwood has tended to subside a little since the end of July. This came after cheap offers from Eastern European scantling producers had put the squeeze on prices up ...
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Softwood prices in broad sweeps of Austria in the third quarter 2012 remain more or less at the level that applied at the middle of the year. In many cases the sawmilling industry went into the negotiations conducted until the end of July ...
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WAC Lighting Introduces Cambridge Crystal Pendant in New Early Electric Collection Port Washington,New York---Prismatic sparkles softly illuminate from WAC Lighting`s new Cambridge pendant.Intricately sculpted of faceted clear crystal ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE According to our new research report, a Booming Housing Sector in India, demand for residential property in India is emerging as a major growth area for a large number of developers. The sector is not only attracting ...
In what's been a busy Parliamentary week, Australian MPs have been debating legislation which would prohibit the import of timber that's been illegally logged and impose significant fines on anyone bringing it in. Timber products from ...
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Automation order for ABB Century Cement, India, has contracted ABB to design, engineer and supply integrated automation and modern electrification systems for its Manikgarh Cement plant. The order, worth US$18 million, comes as part of a ...
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Cement Corporation of India is planning to set up a cement grinding unit with an installed capacity of 82, 500 tonnes per annum in Assam, Parliament was informed today. "Cement Corporation of India (CCI) proposes to establish a cement ...
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Australia has moved to prohibit the importation of illegally logged timber with the passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011. A lot of timber products used to build homes in Australia are unwittingly sourced from illegal ...
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The German timber trade has shown turnover growth across all ranges and sales channels iof 3.3% in the first six months of 2012. According to GD Holz timber wholesale, with an increase in revenues of 4.5%, showed particular improvement, ...
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Already approved to burn scrap tires as fuel in addition to coal and petroleum coke, CEMEX Kosmos now wants to blend in scrap plastic and wood to the fuel that fires its super-hot cement kiln in southwest Louisville, according to public ...
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In July, cement prices headed north in most States. Now they are heading south. The slide is marked in Andhra Pradesh, where a 50-kg bag has lost between Rs 20 and Rs 25. If the prices touched Rs 300 a bag in Hyderabad and Rs 320-330 in the ...
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The US-American company GreenWorld is doubling production capacity at its pellet plant in Laurinburg from its current level of 120, 000 t to 240, 000 t/year. The investment volume for the expansion in capacity is quoted by the company as ...
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