Scottish MSPs have backed a motion supporting investment in the country’s timber industry. The motion tabled by Dave Thompson, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, has so far been supported by more than 30 MSPs. It calls for sustained ...
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Sarawak's exports of log and timber products grew one percent to RM3.71 billion in the first six months of 2011 from RM3.67 billion in the previous corresponding period. According to Perkasa, the Sarawak Timber Industry Development ...
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Kronospan is planning to ship a dismantled Canadian OSB plant to Russia, according to German timber news magazine Euwid. The company bought the main production equipment of the Timmins OSB works in Ontario recently. It it was previously ...
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According to consultancy Wood Resources International (WRI), the global conifer sawlog price index saw its first fall in the the third quarter since early 2009. “With a few exceptions, prices fell in both local currencies and in US ...
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The international floor covering trade is gearing up for the largest event in its calender – Domotex 2012 – with leading solid wood, engineered and laminate floor manufacturers among those exhibiting. The Hannover show on ...
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A technology to process bamboo into wood has been introduced in the country. Mr Samuel Nyantakyi Agyepong, an Assistant District Manager at the Western Regional Office of the Forestry Services Division announced at weekend during a ...
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Local timber mills are climbing out of the recession, but it's going to be a sluggish trip, said Wade Mosby, vice president of Collins Products, a company that employs about 170 people in Klamath Falls. "We think it's not going to get any ...
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Even by early December, no agreement had been reached in the majority of negotiations between Japanese importers and European exporters on softwood lumber contracts for delivery in the first quarter of 2012. In the case of standard ...
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Swedish softwood lumber producers are expecting the underlying market conditions to remain difficult in the business year 2012. Participants at this year’s timber industry conference Trämarknaden in Karlstad believe the main ...
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The whole production capacity of stainless steel industry will further release, downstream demand growth is slowing down, influenced by export policy, the international situation, European anti-dumping and the debt crisis, stainless steel ...
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Sales of manufactured wood products gave the province’s manufacturing sector a healthy boost in October, continuing a yearlong trend in the process. Year-to-date, Nova Scotia’s manufacturing shipments have climbed 12.4 per cent. ...
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U. S. And Canada are prepared to extend a shaky softwood lumber trade agreement put in place seven years ago to benefit local mills, a U. S. Lumber lobbyist said Thursday in Longview. If approved, both sides will revisit the contract in ...
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In spite of the doubling in deliveries to the UK arising partly from the loss of output due to fire at Sonae UK, German exports of raw particleboard in the first three quarters of 2011 remained well below the figure for last year. According ...
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Malaysian-based APP Timber has become PEFC International’s first Asian-based company in its membership. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, APP Timber specialises in the supply of imported timber-related products (sawn timber, logs, wood ...
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The largest car producer in Latin America, Brazil is a key market for auto OEM paint suppliers. Brazil’s massive auto industry is facing an uncertain constellation of factors that could spell out a slowdown for internationally ...
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