Southern and western German softwood lumber producers are of the opinion that business activity on German and foreign softwood lumber markets has not increased to any significant extent even now the summer holiday period is over. Although ...
Statistics contained in the latest UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review 2011-2012 indicate that softwood lumber consumption in the UNECE region (Europe, North America and former CIS countries) remained on its upward path in 2011. ...
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China-Music Group founder and CEO Uli Behringer has revealed the company's plans to construct a massive new campus that will house its operations in China. Modelled on the corporate campus typical of Silicon Valley,the sprawling 50-acre ...
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Demand for windows and doors in the US is forecast to rise 9.3 percent per year to $34.2 billion in 2016. Growth will be spurred by a rebound in housing completions and gains in building construction spending from a depressed 2011 base. ...
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Softwood lumber suppliers are still not yet registering any fundamental upswing in demand even now the summer holidays are over in southern Germany. The number of enquiries received remained relatively low in the early days of September as ...
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The decline in turnover and results figures already recorded by Danish timber trading group Dalhoff Larsen & Horneman (DLH), during the first three months of 2012 continued during throughout the period from April to June. Thus turnover in ...
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After the regular company holidays in August, the Italian plywood manufacturer Reni has resumed production operations but only on a reduced scale. According to agents and importers, the daily plywood output of what used to be roughly 400 ...
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The North American production of Engineered Wood Products (EWP) continued to climb in the first and second quarter of 2012, showing significant increases in most instances both compared to the respective quarter last year and to the ...
The French plywood manufacturer Plysorol, which has been undergoing judicial restructuring proceedings (“adminstration judiciaire”) since June 2012, is now being wound up completely after all. This was decided by the commercial ...
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The Austrian timber industry association believes Austria’s sawmills lost considerable market shares on export markets for softwood lumber in 2012. At the press conference at the 52nd “Internationale Holzmesse” in ...
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With UPM ForMi, the Finnish company UPM-Kymmene, has launched a new composite material on the market consisting of 50% cellulose fibres and 50% plastic polymers. UPM ForMi will be marketed in German-speaking regions of Europe and in the ...
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According to a forecast by the UK Timber Trade Federation, British softwood lumber imports in 2012 are going to be 3.4% lower than last year at 4.81m m³. As such, imports from Sweden will fall by 2% to 2.19m m³. A reduction of 13% ...
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Pfleiderer Grajewo is presently exploring two different scenarios for its Russian operations in Novgorod. The first option would see the company sell the particleboard producer Pfleiderer OOO and an MDF/HDF project being undertaken by ...
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During the International Woodworking Fair IWF in Atlanta the IMA Group received its first order for a laser-edging line from North America. An order was signed with the Canadian front-end manufacturer Schenck Architectural Imports, on 23 ...
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Sales generated by the German wood industry (including the furniture industry) rose by 2.8% in the first half-year 2012 to €16.458bn. This was main attributable to the contribution from the furniture industry (+4.5%). In the wood ...
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