The Austrian Pfeifer Group has announced extensive investment measures in its sites at Imst and Lauterbach. From January 2013, Pfeifer intends to carry out a thorough modernisation of its existing glulam plant at its headquarters in Imst. ...
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Diversified Finnish forest products group Vapo reported a 6.5% drop in interim turnover, due to a decline in activity across its various business areas, but increased profits by around 2%. Group sales for the six months to July were ...
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UNIONS are warning they will launch industrial action targeting the State Government and ForestrySA if an agreement cannot be reached between timber processor Carter Holt Harvey and the State Government to lower the price of logs. Speaking ...
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The company said at the weekend it was widening the distribution outlets by opening more mega depots and signing on new distributors so that the consumers could reap the full benefits of the increased local production. Dangote Cement, which ...
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Kuwait Cement Company said in a bourse filing yesterday it booked a net profit of KWD8.84m (US$31.3m) for the six months ended June 30, 2012, slightly up from KWD8.69m a year earlier. The cement producer reported earnings per share (EPS) of ...
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MFEA sees 10% rise in export sales of furniture GEORGE TOWN: The Malaysian Furniture Entrepreneurs Association (MFEA) is projecting a 5% to 10% increase in export sales of Malaysian-made furniture products this year to over RM8bil from ...
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected 15 educational and cultural facilities for this year’s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The purpose of the design awards ...
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According to a new research report about India Affordable Housing Market Analysisa,the scarcity of houses for low-and mid-income groups,coupled with increasing lending rates and property prices has initiated the new concept of affordable ...
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Syntagma Capital sold the French maritime pine plywood producer Rolpin to the newly founded Mar Holding, which is owned by Rolpin‘s management. The purchase price was not disclosed. Mar Holding is controlled by Rolpin‘s managing ...
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Cement makers in Oman have are to set to register double digit growth in their revenues in the second half of 2012, mainly due to growth in construction segment that has led to higher off-take of cement, Oman Daily Observer has reported. ...
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With housing on the rebound in the United States, the exchange traded fund for lumber, Guggenheim Lumber (NYSE: CUT) is also rising. Jumping too is the exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO). As the chart below reveals, ...
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Lumber prices are rising in the U. S. Because of greater demand in Asia, which is a sign of recovery in the international real estate market. The exchange-traded fund for lumber, Claymore Beacon Global Timber Index (CUT, quote), has climbed ...
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The recovery observed on the North American particleboard and MDF/HDF markets is increasingly reflected in the shipments statistics of the Composite Panels Association. North American particleboard volumes recorded the largest ...
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Revenue within the US automotive coatings manufacturing market has been forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate(CAGR)of 2.7percent over the next five years,to reach a total market value of$1.5 billion in 2017,according to new ...
Islamabad: Pakistan cut interest rates by a greater-than-forecast 1.5 percentage points, seeking to bolster faltering growth with the first reduction since 2011 after inflation slowed to a more than two-year low. The State Bank of Pakistan ...
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