Brazil’s production of particleboard, MDF/HDF and rigid fibreboard was unchanged last year after skyrocketing in 2010. The latest figures released by the wood-based panels association Associação Brasileira da ...
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Bamboo flooring is a new division of flooring industry, not hardwood flooring, not cork, but natural and green flooring. Bamboo flooring has been in the market over 20 years, but still many people don't hear it before his life because ...
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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Bamboo flooring has 3 different structures because it has 3 different pressing methods. Bamboo flooring is pressed from layers of bamboo strips, either in horizontal direction or vertical direction or strand woven. Bamboo stem is hollow. ...
The longstanding pressure on MDF/HDF prices has remained in place in Central Europe during the first quarter amid a challenging sales environment. Minor price cuts have emerged again, with deals being struck at relatively short notice. ...
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San Jose, Calif. – Wood Panels, during the past few years, has gained mileage as a preferred material for decorative purposes in claddings, floorings, roof sheathing, internal linings, ceilings, and construction purposes. Wood Panels ...
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West Fraser’s fourth quarter saw $6.1 million in earnings, or $0.14 per share of sales. The figures are based off $650 million in 2011 and are after discontinued operations of $7.3 million or $1.47 per share on sales of $2, 762 ...
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BASF and Finsa have unveiled their lightweight wood panel joint development project at ZOW Germany in advance of its market launch this year. Superpan Star – combining Finsa’s Superpan (MDF faces/particleboard core) with ...
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InnoVoc Solutions, a division of Gordon Composites, Inc., launched a new technology for powder coating plastics, composites and other non-conductive substrates. This licensed technology makes non-metallic substrates temporarily conductive ...
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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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Engineered hardwood flooring has advantages of beautiful, natural, comfortable, good thermal insulation; and overcome the warped cracks of hardwood flooring. Now in order to survive the environment does not deteriorate, countries in the ...
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In spite of stoppages conducted by a number of MDF and HDF producers that typically lasted one to two weeks, supply pressure intensified in Central Europe in December and the first half of January. As a result, a few suppliers were willing, ...
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In the past, laminate flooring has only one thickness - 8mm, but now 12mm flooring is in some of stores and people think thicker flooring will have better quality, more resistant, more durble than 8mm. Without professional knowledge, it is ...
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Forest fires in Chile have destroyed Arauco’s plywood mill in Nueva Aldea. Hundreds of firefighters were involved in the operation to battle the blaze at Arauco’s site. The log yard and radiata pine plantations were also damaged ...
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Buying the right type of bathroom vanity will go a long way in regard to your comfort and satisfaction. The vanity gets used multiple times each day and if it's not suited for how you live or the people who use it, you'll quickly see its ...
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