Recently, Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) began its fourth-time review of restrictions on Island's Investments by Mainland Chinese as the basis of whether or not to allow mainland Chinese investors to hold more stakes in the ...
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Demand is only gradually getting into gear in northern and eastern Germany at the end of the first quarter. So far no sweeping uplift has occurred in business activity. According to producers, carpentry and timber construction businesses ...
Tags: market view, lumber, demand
Production cuts in Finland have brought some balance to the market Summary Sawn timber prices are improving. Mild weather has hindered access to harvesting sites. UK purchases continue to be hand to mouth. Finnish producers are generally ...
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Wood products demand is far more sensitive to the economy than demand for almost any other product. The outlook for the next two years is moderately positive, at least compared to the weak domestic markets we’ve seen since the ...
Tags: industry trends, timber industry, 2012
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 ...
Pushed by the record-high yen and economic problems at home, Japan’s large plastic machinery manufacturing industry is accelerating its investment in lower-cost countries, expanding both in China and elsewhere in Asia. Japan Steel ...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for construction materials held steady in September after a dropping 0.6% in August. Meanwhile, the measure was up 8.1% from a year earlier, although only ...
Plastics prices finished down last month across much of Asia, with the trend affecting a broad swath of the market. Lower oil prices pulled down the cost for some plastic feedstock materials' prices, and demand was soft as well as buyers ...
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Construction materials price inflation rose 0.3% in July after a small DIP in June due to lower energy prices and a decline in the pace of economic growth.The index is 8.9% higher than a year ago.The 7.1% increase in copper pipe and tube ...
In foreign and domestic markets have a relatively large positive trend. Accelerated development of the global wood industry, production scale and market size expansion is not as broken. Many doors of business development momentum day by ...
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