Cement prices nationwide were down for the third consecutive week last week, dragged down by price declines in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces, falling 1.12 percent from the previous week, reports Shanghai Securities News, citing the China ...
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The measure comes in response to cabinet plans to scrap most government subsidies for nature conservation. The exact percentage will be announced later this month but the forestry service’s budget is expected to be cut by about 40 ...
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Yanbu Cement has posted an impressive increase in net profits for the latter half of 2011 as demand for raw materials increases in Saudi Arabia. Yanbu Cement Company, based in the Red Sea port town that gives the company its name, produces ...
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The German Association of the Sawmilling & Timber Industry (BSHD) says current production cutbacks at German sawmills will be followed by an extended Christmas shutdown period, with further curtailments likely in 2012. BSHD expects to see ...
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EUROPEAN softwood imports are continuing to stream into Australia, placing pressure on domestic producers as housing starts struggle. Imports of softwood sawn timber rose to about 156, 000 cubic metres over the September quarter, a rise of ...
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KUCHING: Sarawak's plywood prices are expected to firm up again as Japanese importers have resumed buying for reconstruction activities after March's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Sarawak Timber Association panel products' committee ...
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A number of chemical wood modification technologies developed in recent years have now reached market maturity and are now increasingly being used on an industrial scale. These modification technologies aim to alter the proper-ties of wood ...
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China s State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) has continued its plans for international expansion by expressing its intention to invest US$200 million in a new cement plant in Indonesia. The cement plant would be based in the ...
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With weaker demand for lumber around the world, sawlog prices fell in a majority of the 21 markets tracked by the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ).The Global Conifer Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) declined in the 3Q for the first time since the ...
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Shrinking demand on the Spanish sales market has recently led to more price cuts for Scandinavian softwood lumber there. From what market insiders say, demand in Spain has subsided more strongly by the end of November than otherwise usual ...
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The recently concluded Big 5 2011, the largest event for the building and construction industry in the Middle East, attracted more than 49, 000 participants, marking an increase of 6 per cent on last year’s figures. The co-located ...
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PRE-TAX PROFITS at timber processing group Glennon Bros last year increased by 55 per cent to ?.8 million. The Longford group won the industry section in the Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year award last year. Results filed at the ...
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In the third quarter of 2011 the Canadian OSB manufacturer Ainsworth Lumber was unable to pursue its impressive increases in turnover recorded overseas between January and June. Between July and September turnover generated overseas ...
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On account of the tight profit situation which has prevailed for several months in the Central European sawmill industry, various companies are evidently now no longer willing to continue at the beginning of 2012 to pay the roundwood prices ...
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Canfor is permanently closing two mills in British Columbia (BC). The closures affect the Rustad sawmill in Prince George and Tackama plywood mill in Fort Nelson. The mills had been the subject of a lengthy indefinite shutdown since the ...
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