The Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the country’s certification system on timber would comply with a new regulation to be imposed by the European Union next year. The certification system would enable the ...
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, and Idaho contractors and suppliers say they are seeing the same trend in certain areas. “Some (products) related to crude oil prices, like roofing and resin products like PVC, are up, ” said Peter Alexander, CEO of BMC, a ...
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Weyerhaeuser will soon produce JAS-certified OSB material for export to Japan. OSB (oriented strand board) panels are used in both residential and commercial construction in Japan, as wall and roof sheathing and as structural flooring ...
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The British customs authority HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent a letter to the Timber Trade Federation on 27 February promising to step up its inspections of softwood plywood imported into the EU against the duty-free quota. HMRC said ...
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"Cooperation is the key to success. " David, chief representative of Foreign Trade Bureau of Valencia Regional Government, Spain and vice president of Spanish Chamber of Commerce indicated that the Spanish government has implemented ...
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The fourth quarter of last year heralded a slowdown in the amount of OSB that the US exported to most overseas markets after significant growth in the first half and first nine months of the year. The full-year growth rate was thus less ...
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February brought a widespread end to the downward spiral that has afflicted Central European OSB prices since mid-2011, a number of OSB manufacturers report. Prices have altered little in the past few weeks after buyers managed to secure ...
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The Saudi commerce and industry minister, Tawfiq Al-Rabea has set the factory price of a cement bag at SR12 and the retail price at SR14, and the price of bulk cement at SR240 a tonne, Saudi Gazette has reported. Cement production in the ...
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Funds managed by New Forests have taken a controlling interest in the 46, 000 hectare Auspine estate. New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund is the lead investor in the transaction, which includes the land and trees of the ...
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Finland is “sceptical” of EU plans to draw up sustainability criteria for solid biomass. In a Finnish Forest Association article on forests web portal forest. Fi, Finnish forests official Heikki Granholm says the relevant issue ...
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German cement maker HeidelbergCement is getting its energy costs under control and is raising prices, allowing the company to predict profitability will remain at least on last year s level when it was among the highest in the industry. ...
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Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued its latest monthly report on the prices of building materials for the month of February 2012. The report presents an analysis of the movements in the prices of the various materials used in the ...
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One of the key challenges and opportunities within the construction sector is to meet and supply the ever growing demand for building a green building using sustainable building materials. This trend has been with us for quite some time but ...
Weaker demand in February resulted in a slight softening in prices for Siberian larch lumber on the Central European markets. From what market insiders say, demand for larch was initially satisfactory at the beginning of the year. However, ...
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HA NOI — Viet Nam has drawn up plans to sustainably grow its wood product processing industry by 2020, according to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. The industry is to give priority to investing in and utilising ...
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