MDF/HDF manufacturers intend to keep their sales prices at least stable in upcoming talks to settle on terms for third-quarter deliveries. They aim to do so even though demand has been subdued in April and May and has resulted in further ...
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Slower demand has remained pervasive on Central European OSB markets over the past few weeks. This comes after a surprisingly strong March was followed by a slump that set in at the start of April. Several manufacturers reported that order ...
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Esco Corp., Portland, Ore., announced it has acquired full ownership of its supply and service division Esco Supply Limited. Esco, which maintains metalcasting capability for the production of wear parts and attachments for the mining and ...
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Wastewater treatment technology provider Headworks BIO has signed an option agreement with The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) that provides Headworks BIO with the right to negotiate an exclusive license for TAMUS's patent pending ...
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A novel particle tracking scheme has been developed to evaluate aquifer susceptibility to contamination transport, and compared in 11 aquifers across the US to examine regional and temporal patterns. Climate, geology, and aquifer geometry ...
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The minor slump in particleboard prices in the first quarter of 2012 continued in April and May, as well. Prices thus once again failed to stabilise, something that had been expected at the end of March. A variety of particleboard producers ...
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Illinois Executive Mansion gets an SSL update from PolyBrite International, while DMX-based LED fixtures now illuminate Detroit's Assumption Grotto Catholic Church. What started as a sound-system upgrade in the Assumption Grotto Catholic ...
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The price established by the US information service Random Lengths for the benchmark grade of western SPF 2x4 #2&Btr KD for 18 May 2012 was roughly 41% higher than last year’s level at $308/1, 000 bdft and thereby reached a ...
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The economic downturn in Italy resulted in nearly 5, 000 fewer visitors attending the Plast 2012 exhibition in Milan last week compared with the 2009 event. There were a total of 50, 593 visitors to Plast 2012, down from 55, 175 in 2009, ...
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The 2012 market for water treatment and consumables will be over $25 billion at equivalent world pricing. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company through aggregating data in a number of its market reports. Because of its ...
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Materials technology specialist Umicore has selected GE’s advanced biological metals removal process (ABMet) wastewater bioreactor technology to remove selenium and other heavy metals from wastewater discharges at Umicore’s ...
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PT Great Giant Pineapple company, the world’s third largest producer of pineapples based in Indonesia, is using GWE’s anaerobic technology to extract green energy from a biological waste stream. The PT Great Giant Pineapple ...
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Standard-dimension blockboard has become noticeably less sought-after in the course of the past few weeks. Blockboard suppliers report that demand had already cooled significantly at the end of March or start of April, especially from ...
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The price hikes to the tune of £15-20/m³ demanded by various suppliers for softwood lumber deliveries in the second quarter of 2012 have not been fully implemented on the British market to date. In this vein, British sawmills ...
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U. S. Furniture factory orders were up 2% in March from the same month a year earlier, ending a six-month string of double-digit gains, Smith Leonard reported. "But we would note that the March 2011 orders were 11% higher than March 2010, ...
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