The price hikes to the tune of £15-20/m³ demanded by various suppliers for softwood lumber deliveries in the second quarter of 2012 have not been fully implemented on the British market to date. In this vein, British sawmills ...
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U. S. Furniture factory orders were up 2% in March from the same month a year earlier, ending a six-month string of double-digit gains, Smith Leonard reported. "But we would note that the March 2011 orders were 11% higher than March 2010, ...
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NOF Metal Coatings Group has unveiled Geokote, a new range of high-performance topcoats. With the aim of expanding its Plus and Dacrolub range of topcoats, NOF Metal Coatings Group launched the new line and like the other topcoats, Geokote ...
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Global trade in lumber has risen 25% in the past two years. After a sharp decline in 2008 and 2009, traded volumes rose to 90 million m³ in 2011, although this is still well below pre-financial crisis levels. According to the Wood ...
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Turkey s cement industry has continued to grow, despite the global economic crisis. The country s clinker capacity has exceeded 64 million t, while its cement capacity is over 105 million t, with 48 integrated plants and 20 grinding ...
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A construction rebound is coming, but it will be a soft rebound, leading to a mild recovery in wood products demand. Although somewhat better times are coming, businesses need to be prepared for the challenges that improved sales ...
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THE construction industry will be able to count on the supply of plantation softwood timber increasing by about 27 per cent over the next 20-30 years. But the volume of plantation hardwood for similar and higher value use will lag far ...
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A TIMBER business is planning to grow by 30% and take on 12 new staff thanks to a £1.5million finance package. The P&A Group of Companies, a leading manufacturer and distributor of timber products, is seeking to increase turnover ...
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Pfleiderer Holzwerkstoffe now intends after all to install a new line during the planned replacement investment at its Neumarkt II plant. The plans presented in May 2011, which envisaged replacement of the two multi-daylight systems by a ...
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The particleboard line damaged by deflagration on 11 April 2012 at the French company Darbo, which is owned by Sonae Industria, resumed operations in mid-May following completion of repair work. The roughly four-week shutdown of raw board ...
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U. S. Residential furniture factory shipments totaled $1.88 billion in Feb 2012, up 17% from Feb 2011. The two largest year-over-year increases since the recovery began were in the last three reporting months. Factory orders posted ...
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The EU is currently preparing the implementation of the export quotas for Russian roundwood that come into force once Russia has joined the WTO. Russia will become a WTO member on 22 August 2012 at the latest. In this vein, Russia will ...
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Today, wind energy plants (WEP) in forests are still an exception to the rule in most places. In Germany as a whole, the number of plants in, or rather above, forests is estimated to be about 200, which accounts for only 1% of the total ...
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CEMEX, S. A. B. De C. V. CX -1.08% announced today that it is supplying nearly 100, 000 tons of cement for the construction of Line 1 of the Panama Metro, a stretch of approximately 14 kilometers that is intended to connect two key hubs of ...
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Over 300 former employees have filed a suit against the Apapa branch of Dangote Cement Plc before the National Industrial Court (NIC), requesting it to set aside a handbook purportedly put together by the company. The company s Human ...
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