Werzalit is closing its beech veneer peeling mill in the German town of Niederorschel. Roundwood purchasing for the mill has already ceased. At the present time, the mill is still processing its existing roundwood stocks as well as incoming ...
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North-west Russian forestry and sawmill company Norwood, which belongs to Latvian timber group Norvik Timber Industries launched production at its new sawmill on 26 November 2012. The sawmill, which has a production capacity of 90,000m3 of ...
Tags: Sawmill, Norwood, Construction, Decoration
The wood-processing trade fair Trä & Teknik, which will be held from 21 to 24 August 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden, is already virtually fully booked. The organiser Svenska Mässan reports that by 8 May 2012 roughly 215 exhibitors had ...
Tags: Trä&Teknik, wood-processing trade fair, Svenska, exhibition
12.12.2012 − Since October, the Russian plywood industry has been confronted with a scarcity of better-quality birch roundwood. Against that backdrop, mills have for several weeks been able to produce and offer only limited volumes of ...
Tags: plywood, plywood production, birch roundwood, B quality plywood
German exports of oak roundwood have dropped again by 32% in the third quarter of 2012 after a brief recovery (+19%) in the second quarter. According to the German Federal Statistical Office, a total of just 11,074m³ of oak roundwood ...
Tags: Oak Roundwood, oak roundwood exports, German Oak Roundwood Exports
17.11.2012 − At the beginning of October 2012, the Tsiglomen sawmill, which is owned by the northern Russian timber-industry company Sawmill 25 commissioned a newly installed sawing line which had replaced the existing line. The new ...
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21.11.2012 − Representatives of the Polish state forest agency Lasy Panstwowe (LP) and the Polish Chamber of Commerce of Timber have recently agreed on the introduction of roundwood contracts with a term of up to three years for ...
21.11.2012 − At 1.771 million m3 Russia has delivered 2% more roundwood to the EU in the first six months of 2012 than in the same stretch in 2011. In doing so, the country was able to more than offset lower deliveries to Finland, the ...
Tags: roundwood exports, pulp industries, sawmill industries
On 26 October 2012, the Swedish Setra Group announced a reduction in sawing at its Vimmerby pine sawmill from two-shift to one-and-a-half shift operations until further notice. As a result, the mill‘s annual performance will be down ...
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According to the latest survey conducted by the National Board of Forestry prices in the second quarter of 2012 for all roundwood ranges in Sweden showed average year-on-year decline of 9%. The price prevailing nationwide for sawable ranges ...
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The current summer-holiday period in the German federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony mainly set the tone in mid-August for activity on southern German softwood-lumber markets, while the holidays have finished or are ...
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The Russian softwood plywood producer has started production on two new veneer lines supplied by Raute on 6 July. The lines embrace 4 and 8ft peeling lines, respectively, as well as drying facilities. In addition to the Raute plants Ilim ...
Tags: market view, veneer
The upward trend in industrial-timber and roundwood prices which has now been evident in Finland since the beginning of the year continued until the end of May. Current analyses conducted by the Finnish Forest Industries Federation show an ...
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The EU is currently preparing the implementation of the export quotas for Russian roundwood that come into force once Russia has joined the WTO. Russia will become a WTO member on 22 August 2012 at the latest. In this vein, Russia will ...
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Setra intends to close down its Horndal pine sawmill in Avesta. The company announced on 14 May 2012 that associated negotiations with employee representatives were to begin on the basis of the Swedish Co-determination Act (MBL). Closure of ...
Tags: market view, pine sawmill