At the end of August, central European buyers of Scandinavian softwood lumber were still acting very cautiously. According to information from market players, shippers have been able to arrange hardly any contracts for the third quarter. ...
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Exports of Finnish softwood lumber and planed goods in May 2012 showed year-on-year decline of roughly 7% to 588, 000 m³. According to Finnish Forest Industries deliveries to other European countries were also down by roughly 7% to ...
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The uphill trend observed for some time in North American structural panels production has intensified in the second quarter of 2012. APA-The Engineered Wood Association reports an overall year-on-year production growth of 7% to 6.287 ...
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The current summer-holiday period in the German federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony mainly set the tone in mid-August for activity on southern German softwood-lumber markets, while the holidays have finished or are ...
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West Fraser Timber Co. And Western Forest Products Inc. Are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U. S. Housing rebound and near-record Chinese demand. Lumber ...
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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 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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Wood chip prices in British Columbia have fallen 16 percent over the past six months, the second biggest price decline in North America, after Alberta. Temporary pulpmill shutdowns have led to lower wood fiber demand and sharply reduced ...
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The Russian softwood plywood producer has started production on two new veneer lines supplied by Raute on 6 July. The lines embrace 4 and 8ft peeling lines, respectively, as well as drying facilities. In addition to the Raute plants Ilim ...
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German sawmills and industrial-scale planing mills have reduced their output sometimes significantly in the first quarter of 2012 against the background of excessive supply and insufficient demand on the domestic and most foreign sales ...
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Chile's softwood lumber exports dropped by 17% in a year-on-year comparison to 583, 873 m³ in the second quarter of 2012, according to preliminary information from Odepa. This fall was mainly due to a slump in deliveries to South Korea ...
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British sawmills raised their share of the domestic softwood lumber market sharply last year to 41%. This is the result the forestry company UPM Tilhill comes to after assessing data from HMRC. The data shows that lumber imports to the UK ...
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The duty free quota for softwood plywood imports to the EU was exhausted on 24 July, according to the EU Commission’s Department General Taxation and Customs Union. The last volumes were subsequently allocated on 30 July. As a result, ...
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You know where you want to put your bar stool, the height you'll need and have an idea of what style is right for you, but perhaps you are feeling a bit inundated with where to start making choices? Why not begin with the base! Wood and ...
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