British sawmills raised their share of the domestic softwood lumber market sharply last year to 41%. This is the result the forestry company UPM Tilhill comes to after assessing data from HMRC. The data shows that lumber imports to the UK ...
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European particleboard production dipped 1.7% to 30.220m m³ last year after edging slightly higher in 2010. By contrast, MDF/HDF production improved 1.7% to 11.7m m³ in 2011. Both figures are still significantly lower than the ...
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Raute has been awarded a €14m contract by Pollmeier to supply various components for the LVL works planned for the Creuzburg site. Raute reports that the order covers an 8-ft peeling line, a veneer-drying line and a lay-up line. The ...
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The French plywood manufacturer Plysorol intends to close down the plywood plants in Lisieux and Fontenay-Le-Comte in France. Plysorol operations in France would then be concentrated on the poplar-plywood plant in Epernay. Various French ...
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The combined German pellet output reached a new record level in the first half of this year and was roughly 17% higher than in the reference period for last year at 1.04m t. The decisive factor for this was the above-average increase of 22% ...
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Saint-Gobain said it is drawing in its horns after the construction materials supplier posted a 34% fall in net income for the first half of the year. The company said deterioration in the economic climate in western Europe since May marred ...
After a prolonged period of decline, Brazilian exports of Elliotis pine plywood stabilised at last year’s level in the first six months of 2012. The export statistics produced by Abimci show only a minor reduction of 1% to 487, 753 ...
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The duty free quota for softwood plywood imports to the EU was exhausted on 24 July, according to the EU Commission’s Department General Taxation and Customs Union. The last volumes were subsequently allocated on 30 July. As a result, ...
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Pfleiderer generated consolidated turnover in the first quarter of of €388.9m, virtually unchanged year on year. The decline of 0.6% was attributed by Pfleiderer primarily to the sale concluded on 24 Januaryof the Moncure particleboard ...
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Ernst & Young has said regional companies have raised a total of $1.29bn through five initial public offerings (IPOs) in the second quarter of 2012, Oman Daily Observer has reported. A total of $1.37bn was raised in the IPO markets by ...
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First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
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The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) is partnering with GreenCore Composites to develop a new green technology process that will allow wood fibre to be used in a number of new products for the packaging and ...
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It's been a good summer for sawmills in northeastern Ontario — and that has some thinking optimistically about the forest industry for the first time in years. More Americans are building houses this summer, bumping up lumber prices. ...
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A New Jersey solar installation is now a more cost-efficient investment thanks to a law signed on July 23. Governor Chris Christie signed into law S-1925, which will help stabilize the state's renewable energy credit market and will also ...
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Now that the holiday period has begun in a number of northern and eastern German states, business activity has also continued to decrease on the regional sales markets for flat wooden pallets in the last three to four weeks. Manufacturers ...
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