The insolvency administrator for the Spanish wood-based panels manufacturer Interbon will auction the company‘s assets as part of the liquidation initiated in the middle of May 2012. That auction is to be concluded by the end of July. ...
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The Chilean wood-based panels manufacturer Masisa intends in the coming years to invest roughly US$120m in setting up its own production sites in Peru and Columbia, according to reports from various South American business newspapers. The ...
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A number of German interior door suppliers claim to have now largely instituted mark-ups averaging 3% that they announced for the second quarter of this year. However, a few prices have not yet risen. Suppliers that charged more from 1 ...
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The Danish timber supplier group DLH apparently intends to separate from its American subsidiary Inter-Continental Hardwoods. In the current quarterly report for the period from January to March 2012 the company is recorded as a division to ...
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At the beginning of May 2012, the Turkish wood-based panels manufacturer Kastamonu Entegre Agac placed the main orders for the MDF/HDF plant planned in the special economic zone of Alabuga in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan. The ...
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Brazil’s production of particleboard, MDF/HDF and rigid fibreboard was unchanged last year after skyrocketing in 2010. The latest figures released by the wood-based panels association Associação Brasileira da ...
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More particleboard and MDF/HDF mills in Spain, Portugal and Italy look set to shut for a long period of time or for good before the year's end due to ongoing weak demand in domestic markets that can hardly be offset by temporary shutdowns ...
Finnforest Deutschland is set to stop marketing OSB in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the end of 2011. Its wood-based panels business will thus focus on laminated veneer lumber and plywood manufactured within the group as well as ...
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The Spanish wood-based panels producer Financiera Maderera (Finsa) is posed to permanently close a particleboard mill run by its Basque subsidiary Inama at the end of 2011. Several Spanish daily newspapers reported that the company had ...
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New standard GB/T18885-2009 Technical Specification of Ecological Textiles issued by the SAC (Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China)(Hereafter called New standard), was issued on Jan. 1, 2010. This is to hereby ...
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