ALMHULT, Sweden—That couch catching your eye in the 2013 edition of IKEA's new catalog may not be a couch at all. It is likely the entire living room was created by a graphic artist. In fact, much of the furniture and settings in the ...
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The 2008 collapse of the housing market devastated California's already faltering lumber industry. The housing market has been slow to recover, but new home construction has risen in the last year. David Bischel of the California Forestry ...
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Softwood sawlog prices continued their slide throughout the world in the 2Q/12, and the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) was down for the fourth consecutive quarter to $82.90/m3. The Index was down 3.4 % from the 1Q/12, and 11.5 % from ...
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The hand tools manufacturers in Punjab are pinning hope over setting up of the state-of-the-art socket wrench manufacturing unit and a continuous bright hardening and tempering plant at a common facility centre (CFC) called ‘The ...
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The pressure on prices for finger-jointed window scantlings made from softwood has tended to subside a little since the end of July. This came after cheap offers from Eastern European scantling producers had put the squeeze on prices up ...
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Softwood prices in broad sweeps of Austria in the third quarter 2012 remain more or less at the level that applied at the middle of the year. In many cases the sawmilling industry went into the negotiations conducted until the end of July ...
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In what's been a busy Parliamentary week, Australian MPs have been debating legislation which would prohibit the import of timber that's been illegally logged and impose significant fines on anyone bringing it in. Timber products from ...
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Sany Heavy Industry, a leading Chinese manufacturer of construction machinery, announced that it has fully acquired Intermix GmbH, a German truck mixer maker. Sany spent 8.1 million euros ($9.78 million) to buy all of Intermix from its ...
Automation order for ABB Century Cement, India, has contracted ABB to design, engineer and supply integrated automation and modern electrification systems for its Manikgarh Cement plant. The order, worth US$18 million, comes as part of a ...
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Uniloy North America is breaking new ground by shipping the first-ever low-pressure structural foam machines to China, Russia, Poland and Thailand, said company executive Ed Hunerberg. “In the U.S. because of the economy, ...
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Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd, China's largest construction machinery maker by revenue, expects to double its sales in the Brazilian market from last year to exceed $200 million, further consolidating its market share in Latin America. Sany ...
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Cement Corporation of India is planning to set up a cement grinding unit with an installed capacity of 82, 500 tonnes per annum in Assam, Parliament was informed today. "Cement Corporation of India (CCI) proposes to establish a cement ...
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Filtration solutions provider Vokes Air and Filtac A/S are to merge their Danish businesses in order to better serve the local market. The combined business brings together the air filtration expertise of both companies and will create one ...
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Australia has moved to prohibit the importation of illegally logged timber with the passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011. A lot of timber products used to build homes in Australia are unwittingly sourced from illegal ...
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The German timber trade has shown turnover growth across all ranges and sales channels iof 3.3% in the first six months of 2012. According to GD Holz timber wholesale, with an increase in revenues of 4.5%, showed particular improvement, ...
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