Parador plans to post turnover of €143-145m in 2012. The company employed about 600 workers and generated turnover of €135m in 2011, an increase of a good 5%. Parador’s laminate flooring activities delivered an improvement ...
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Police in Dubai have confiscated 850,000 counterfeit HP items, including flat boxes, security labels, empty laser print cartridges, print cartridge bags and labels and finished print cartridges, in a raid on a showroom and store of a ...
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Demandware Inc announced that Life is good, the iconic lifestyle brand whose mission is to spread the power of optimism and help kids in need, has selected Demandware Commerce as the central platform to support its digital growth strategy. ...
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Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co. (1157) headed for the first gain in seven trading days after reassuring investors about the planned sale of a sanitation-equipment unit that's its fastest-growing business. The company rose ...
The slightly growing demand for beech lumber since the beginning of the year has spread to other assortments and sales markets in the course of the last few weeks. An increasing number of sawmills has been using this as an argument for ...
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Timber product companies have reported good initial feedback from Ecobuild – the world’s largest eco building show at London ExCeL which finishes today. Organisers UBM were expecting more than 60, 000 visitors at this ...
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Weaker demand in February resulted in a slight softening in prices for Siberian larch lumber on the Central European markets. From what market insiders say, demand for larch was initially satisfactory at the beginning of the year. However, ...
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The discrepancy between prices for products imported from the euro zone and locally-produced wood, that Swiss sawmills and gluelam manufacturers have been facing since 2011, still exists in 2012 in spite of the price reductions of up to 10% ...
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SCA Timber Supply says it is grouping its resources to become even stronger in the builders merchants market. SCA Timber president Jonas Mårtensson says the aim is to grow builders merchant sales, currently 25% of SCA Timber’s ...
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In the early weeks of 2012, timber wholesalers and producers have been registering slightly higher demand for hardwood gluelam boards in Germany and Switzerland than they did a year ago. In contrast, export business to northern and southern ...
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces commercial availability of the LBR-30™ LED lamp, aimed at replacing energy-wasting incandescent lamps commonly used in tracks, commercial and ...
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The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF), the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), the UK SIP Association (UKSIPS) and the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) have signed up as official show partners for Timber Expo ...
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The sales opportunities for ENplus and DINplus pellets (A1 products) on the central European markets are largely exhausted at the beginning of the year. In the last few weeks, merchants’ and retail consumers’ adequately-filled ...
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Central European OSB prices remained under pressure at the start of 2012, as they had been in the final quarter of 2011. As a result, prices for large-volume orders and individual projects, in particular, have continued to slide. OSB prices ...
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Sany Heavy Industry Co. (600031), headed by China’s richest man, and a partner will pay 360 million euros ($475 million) for concrete-pump maker Putzmeister Holding GmbH to add technology and expand overseas. The Chinese ...