European particleboard production dipped 1.7% to 30.220m m³ last year after edging slightly higher in 2010. By contrast, MDF/HDF production improved 1.7% to 11.7m m³ in 2011. Both figures are still significantly lower than the ...
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Raute has been awarded a €14m contract by Pollmeier to supply various components for the LVL works planned for the Creuzburg site. Raute reports that the order covers an 8-ft peeling line, a veneer-drying line and a lay-up line. The ...
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The French plywood manufacturer Plysorol intends to close down the plywood plants in Lisieux and Fontenay-Le-Comte in France. Plysorol operations in France would then be concentrated on the poplar-plywood plant in Epernay. Various French ...
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The combined German pellet output reached a new record level in the first half of this year and was roughly 17% higher than in the reference period for last year at 1.04m t. The decisive factor for this was the above-average increase of 22% ...
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After a prolonged period of decline, Brazilian exports of Elliotis pine plywood stabilised at last year’s level in the first six months of 2012. The export statistics produced by Abimci show only a minor reduction of 1% to 487, 753 ...
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The duty free quota for softwood plywood imports to the EU was exhausted on 24 July, according to the EU Commission’s Department General Taxation and Customs Union. The last volumes were subsequently allocated on 30 July. As a result, ...
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Pfleiderer generated consolidated turnover in the first quarter of of €388.9m, virtually unchanged year on year. The decline of 0.6% was attributed by Pfleiderer primarily to the sale concluded on 24 Januaryof the Moncure particleboard ...
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Now that the holiday period has begun in a number of northern and eastern German states, business activity has also continued to decrease on the regional sales markets for flat wooden pallets in the last three to four weeks. Manufacturers ...
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A solution has meanwhile been found for the survival of the parquet manufacturer Huot Parquets, insolvent since September 2011, according to reports in the French media. The commercial court in Troyes has apparently approved the acquisition ...
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At the beginning of the third quarter, the majority of central European shippers have been unable to get importers on the softwood lumber markets of North Africa and the Middle East to accept higher selling prices. From what shippers say, ...
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Very slack demand on the Spanish softwood lumber market caused imports in the first quarter of 2012 to slump by 28% below the figure for the same quarter of last year to 176, 239 m³. According to the association of Spanish wood ...
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Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the industry’s largest supplier of wood products, reported net sales from continuing operations of $1.8 billion for its second fiscal quarter, a 12.5% increase over net sales from continuing operations of $1.6 ...
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The downhill trend in the price indices for solid wood products for manufacturing wooden pallets and wooden packaging did not continue in the second quarter of 2012. The HPE wood-price index for “solid wood for wooden pallets” ...
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The downhill trend in the price indices for solid wood products for manufacturing wooden pallets and wooden packaging did not continue in the second quarter of 2012. The HPE wood-price index for “solid wood for wooden pallets” ...
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North American OSB manufacturers are still operating well below their technical production capacity. Estimates drawn up by two producers - Norbord and Louisiana-Pacific - show that mills continued to operate below 60% capacity in 2011. ...
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