Output from James Jones & Sons’ Timber Systems Division in Forres has defied expectations in the first half of the year, largely as a result of the mild winter and encouraging levels of activity from national and regional ...
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After an already sluggish pace of business in spring, demand for bangkirai decking on European sales markets has not revived in the last six weeks either. Importers and agents are thus still reporting slow progress in trade and a volume of ...
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Hard maple supplies stayed under control through the peak winter cut, even with Canadian hardwood lumber production 29 percent higher during Q1 2012 than during the same period in 2011, according to Statistics Canada. Apparently, markets ...
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Does the export of raw logs to China hurt or help British Columbia's economy? NDP leader Adrian Dix is rallying for export tariffs on logs, which would put a hard stop on the export of raw logs from B. C. That are being shipped and ...
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The Chilean wood-based panels manufacturer Masisa intends in the coming years to invest roughly US$120m in setting up its own production sites in Peru and Columbia, according to reports from various South American business newspapers. The ...
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Gagarin announced the opening of a new interactive exhibition on renewable energy for Landsvirkjun Power Company at the hydro power station Burfellsvirkjun. Gagarin produced the exhibition, created the concept and managed the development ...
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Sri Lanka s post-war reconstruction and floods have helped boost demand for cement in the country, according to Tokyo Cement. The Sri Lankan and Japanese joint venture said that much of the demand has come from the government s large scale ...
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French cement maker Lafarge SA (LG. FR) is planning to sell a seven-year, euro-denominated bond, one of the banks running the sale said Monday. Initial price guidance has been set in the area of 6.25%. BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, HSBC, ...
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Having to replace parts of industrial equipment is a very costly and time-consuming matter. These costs and the lost time can, however, be reduced by repairing, maintaining and protecting the parts. In its newly opened Competence Center for ...
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Kronospan is awaiting final approval of a massive euro bank loan to build an MDF and laminate flooring plant in Belarus. Kronospan Belarus wants to build the €102m facility beside an existing chipboard mill on a former tractor site as ...
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Egypt-based Suez Cement, the country s biggest publicly traded producer of cement, has delayed a US$248m capacity expansion. The Managing Director of the company, Bruno Carrea, said that the company has postponed additional production lines ...
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CEMENT sales volumes rose by 6, 7% year on year (y/y) to 2, 637-million tons in the first quarter of 2012, data released by the Cement and Concrete Institute (C&CI) on Monday showed. This compared with a 3, 3% rise in 2011 and a 7, 8% fall ...
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A Florida-based research company claims to have solved the question of deforestation by “creating” wood through combining plant cuttings and a special agent responsible for forming shells in nature. Blue Word Crete, which ...
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The Metsa Group is continuing to expand its capacity in the field of surface processing at its Suolahti softwood plywood plant. The company apparently intends to install a new six-head sanding machine from the Italian manufacturer Imeas in ...
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Roger Collins, who was semi-retired but still active in the timber trade, has died. Mr Collins's career in the timber trade began with Lathams, first in London and then in the north-east. On returning to London in the 1960s, Mr Collins ...
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