Demand is only gradually getting into gear in northern and eastern Germany at the end of the first quarter. So far no sweeping uplift has occurred in business activity. According to producers, carpentry and timber construction businesses ...
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Investments in laser edgebanding technology have picked up pace again over the past few months despite ongoing uncertainty surrounding the patent situation in Germany. Plant builders estimate that more than 150 laser units for edgebanding ...
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Connecticut construction officials are urging the industry to renew a building technique hundreds of years old as a way to save money and increase productivity today. The renewed push in prefabrication — or modular construction ...
Prince George, B. C. - Exports of wood pellets from North America reached a record high of over two million tons in 2011 according to the latest edition of North American Wood fibre review. The report says that while Canada has long been ...
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Glass shower doors are convenient in many ways. They keep water in more effectively than shower curtains. They don’t omit the toxic smells that plastic curtains release. They don’t need to be replaced periodically like curtains ...
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Good news at one flooring company has given hope to many in the flooring sector for an improvement in the wider economy. Moody's Investors Service has raised the ranking of American flooring firm Mohawk based on recent figures and ...
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The Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) has said SR674m ($180m) in loans have been approved to finance four industrial centres and four expansion projects in the kingdom, Reuters has reported. The loans include SR300m to increase ...
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The cement exports to Afghanistan has registered a growth of two percent in the first nine months of this fiscal from 3.403 million tons in July-March 2011 to 3.336 million tons in the first nine months of this fiscal. The less growth in ...
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ANH Refractories Europe has secured a major new deal to supply products to the Middle East petrochemical market. The American owned firm manufactures materials at its Bromborough plant, in the UK, used in linings for furnaces, kilns and ...
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Large-scale refurbishment projects, infrastructure works and investments made in wind farms were the main factors behind the 5 percent increase in volume of the Romanian cement market in 2011, said Florian Aldea, country manager of ...
The surge in energy costs, the new direction toward renewable energy sources, and European initiatives to limit carbon emissions all have created a tremendous opportunity for North American wood pellets. In the wood products industry, ...
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Production of plantation timber in Sabah past the 1 million m³ mark last year for the first time. Total production from plantations reached 1.23 million m³. Sabah Forestry director Datuk Sam Mannan said total production from ...
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Chinese timber firm Sino-Forest has filed a US$4bn defamation lawsuit against Muddy Waters, the research and investment firm which released a report last year accusing it of fraud. The news follows Sino-Forest’s announcement last week ...
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"As I think, the progress of the ceramics industry must be international: international technology, international brand and international dignity." Li Xinliang, director of the management committee of Ceramic Town Weekly (CTW), made the ...
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With retrospective effect from 1 January German Pellets has taken over the Austrian Glechner group of companies. The takeover includes three Glechner production sites - in Pfarrkirchen (Germany) and the Austrian pellet plants in Mattighofen ...
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