The Canadian timber concern Canfor started a total investment in May 2012 of roughly Can$40m in the modernisation of the Radium and Canal Flats sawmills in British Columbia. Most of the investment sum will go to the Radium sawmill which was ...
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Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued today its monthly report on the prices of building materials for the month of May 2012, which presents an analysis of the movements in the prices of the various materials used in the construction ...
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June 17, 2012 by Senay Gokcen Safdie Architects has been selected to design a 69-storey residential building in Colombo, Sri Lanka, slated to be the city‘s tallest building. The mixed-use development is in the city center and will ...
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Designing Action is an ideas competition to envision the many ways that infrastructure promoting active,healthy-living could accomplish Nashville's desire to become the"Healthiest City in the Southeast." The competition seeks to encourage ...
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Timber windows and doors manufacturer Allan Brothers is winning new business in a very competitive and difficult timber window market after enjoying a “turn around” in 2011 when the Berwick-upon-Tweed company celebrated its ...
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A near 9% fall in the global sawlog price index was recorded in the first quarter, according to the latest report from Wood Resource Quarterly. The biggest fall was experienced in Europe, with reduced global demand the primary reason. ...
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Following a strong first quarter, over recent weeks incoming orders in the German kitchen furniture industry also remained slightly above the level of the previous year in the majority of cases. Nevertheless since April kitchen ...
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AOL launched a company-wide initiative to adapt to changes in online culture-which the company had been instrumental in creating in the first place. As part of this effort, AOL moved its West Coast headquarters to a new corporate space in ...
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The longstanding upswing in titanium dioxide prices ground to a temporary standstill in the second quarter. Generally speaking, mark-ups announced by virtually all major manufacturers in the second half of February and in March for ...
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A number of German interior door suppliers claim to have now largely instituted mark-ups averaging 3% that they announced for the second quarter of this year. However, a few prices have not yet risen. Suppliers that charged more from 1 ...
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CEMENA Holding Company, a Bahrain-based building Material company focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) established in 2008 by Gulf Finance House (GFH) who remains a major shareholder in the company, held its Annual General ...
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In what would be its maiden overseas venture, Birla Corp plans to set up a cement plant in Ethiopia. The MP Birla group company has recently formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, Birla Corp Cement Manufacturing Plc, in the sub-Saharan African ...
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The Danish timber supplier group DLH apparently intends to separate from its American subsidiary Inter-Continental Hardwoods. In the current quarterly report for the period from January to March 2012 the company is recorded as a division to ...
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Demand for Siberian larch lumber in Germany and on other Central European markets was sluggish in May. At this time of year larch usually enjoys brisk business. In April, lumber demand from industrial planing mills picked up briefly because ...
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AkzoNobel Powder Coatings opened its first Powder School in China, offering customers an opportunity to learn from their experts and improve the efficiency and productivity of their powder application lines. The Powder School is a service ...
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