US house completions reached an estimated 583, 900 units in 2011, 10.4% below the 2010 total (651, 700). The latest figures from the US Census Bureau also show that estimated housing starts in 2011 were up 3.4% to 606, 900 units, while the ...
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According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, in 2011 U.S. consumption of coatings is projected to be 1.4 billion gallons, containing 7.8 billion pounds of solids, worth $23 billion. The industry saw its peak ...
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In spite of stoppages conducted by a number of MDF and HDF producers that typically lasted one to two weeks, supply pressure intensified in Central Europe in December and the first half of January. As a result, a few suppliers were willing, ...
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Europe's largest wood pallet producer, Faber Halbertsma Group (FHG), has stated its international ambitions by acquiring German pallet pool PAKi Logistics. Faber, based in the Netherlands, said acquiring the ?0m turnover PAKi operation ...
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Rapid growing and profitable tile imaging market to benefit from EFI's proven technology Zaventem, Belgium - 11 January 2011 - EFI (Nasdaq: EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing ...
OTTAWA - Canada and the United States have bought two extra years of relative peace on the lumber front. The two governments agreed Monday to extend the 2006 softwood lumber agreement by two years to October 2015 with no modifications to ...
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Cement arrivals in Gujarat during December 2011 have been the highest ever according to data compiled by the Cement Manufacturers Association ( CMA) and industry sources. At 18.55 lakh tonnes for the month of December 2011, the arrivals ...
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Bayer MaterialScience has begun construction of a multipurpose production plant for polyurethane coating raw materials at Chempark Leverkusen. The products hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) are used ...
Ghana s leading producer of cement, GHACEM, says the industry saw a record 22% growth in 2011 relative to 2010, attributing this to the robust economic growth witnessed in the country in the year under review. The Managing Director of ...
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(Kansas) -- On the eve of beginning its 100th year of operation in 2012, Ash Grove s recently reconstructed Foreman, Ark., cement plant earned the ISO 14001 certification in December 2011, marking the last of the company s eight clinker ...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for materials and components used in construction was unchanged in November after rising 0.3% in October. The index was up 3.8% on a year-over-year basis, but ...
Production of both hard maple and soft maple should pick up over the next two months as freezing weather firms up northern woodlands. Pricing trends for the two species will diverge, however, because one is growing in popularity and the ...
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Holz Schiller has since August 2011 invested a total of roughly .5m in the modernisation and expansion of production at its window-scantlings plant specialising in the manufacture of pine scantlings at its site in Cheb in the Czech ...
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Stora Enso has renewed its business areas in a shake-up which will include the renaming of its wood products division as “Building and Living”. The Building and Living division, created yesterday, is headed by executive ...
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Indonesia s cement association (ASI) has reported that the country’s cement sales grew 17% in 2011, with total domestic sales reaching 47.9 million t. The association’s Chairman, Urip Trimuryono, attributed the result to ...
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