The Finnish Forest Industries Federation attributes the slight reduction in the domestic sawmilling industry’s lumber output in the first quarter of 2012 of roughly 2% to 2.3m m³ to comparatively difficult sales conditions on the ...
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Southern and western softwood lumber producers believe the pace of business activity slowed again on domestic and foreign softwood lumber markets in February. In addition to halted building activity due to weather conditions, demand is ...
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Sawlog prices in the 4Q/11 were down both in U. S. Dollar terms and in local currencies in most of the 20 regions we cover, as compared to the previous quarter. The biggest declines occurred in Western Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia and ...
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By the end of February 2012, prices on the southern and western German softwood log markets stabilised at the level they had reached at the beginning of the year; No further significant fluctuations have occurred in prices since then. In ...
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A growing surplus has arisen in supply on Germany’s sawmill residues markets during the course of December and at the beginning of the new year. This development initially led to sometimes marked cuts in prices for sawdust in some ...
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The financial problems facing the Central European sawmill industry since 2010 have continued during 2011 as well. Additional major players in the sector reported significant financial problems early in the year, which sometimes led to ...
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The German Association of the Sawmilling & Timber Industry (BSHD) says current production cutbacks at German sawmills will be followed by an extended Christmas shutdown period, with further curtailments likely in 2012. BSHD expects to see ...
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PRE-TAX PROFITS at timber processing group Glennon Bros last year increased by 55 per cent to ?.8 million. The Longford group won the industry section in the Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year award last year. Results filed at the ...
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On account of the tight profit situation which has prevailed for several months in the Central European sawmill industry, various companies are evidently now no longer willing to continue at the beginning of 2012 to pay the roundwood prices ...
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Many German sawmills will operate an extended Christmas shutdown and are likely to curtail production in 2012, according to the German Sawmilling and Timber Industry Association (BSHD). BSHD made the prediction after discussions with member ...
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Softwood lumber prices on the German market were held comparatively steady until the end of November. Market players are attributing this development partly to comparatively brisk production and sales of value-added timber-construction ...
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Severe storms in southern Sweden over the weekend felled around one million m³ of timber, according to initial reports. The damage, equivalent to about one-and-a-half months of timber harvest, is less severe than Hurricane Per in 2007 ...
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Several major Scandinavian groups have announced extensive cuts in their softwood lumber output in the last few weeks, owing to the deteriorating underlying conditions on the international softwood lumber markets. The measures, most of ...
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Russian forest products group RusForest AB has recorded a third-quarter net loss of SKr77.5m (2010: SKr-65m). The company, which has blazed an acquisition trail in recent years, blamed the losse on on low capacity utilisation and start-up ...
There were signs Tuesday that the crisis in the province's pulp mill industry is beginning to affect sawmills and private woodlot owners. Taylor Lumber Company Ltd., a Middle Musquodoboit company employing more than 100 people, has said it ...
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