The German purchasing cooperations Holzland, E/D/E and EK/Servicegroup are to collaborate in the future. In this way timber merchants associated with E/D/E and EK/Servicegroup will also have the possibility of joining Holzland and in future ...
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The Russian birch-plywood manufacturer OAO Parfino Faneri Kombinat (PFK) is to be sold at auction in August 2012. The company is currently owned by its former main creditor, the Russian bank Sberbank. Management of PFK's operational ...
Dieffenbacher sold a particleboard mill to the Chinese wood-based panels producer Zhangzhou Hong Wei Woods, which has its main office in Longhai in Fujian province. The contract includes all technology from wood processing to raw board ...
Tags: Dieffenbacher, wood-based panels, Chinese, German, particleboard mill
North-west Russian forestry and sawmill company Norwood, which belongs to Latvian timber group Norvik Timber Industries launched production at its new sawmill on 26 November 2012. The sawmill, which has a production capacity of 90,000m3 of ...
Tags: Sawmill, Norwood, Construction, Decoration
The garden- and thermally-modified timber producer Menz Holz filed a voluntary application for institution of insolvency proceedings on 6 July at the Fulda district court in Germany. The court appointed lawyer Dr. Jan Markus Plathner from ...
Tags: garden-wood products, Menz Holz, insolvency proceedings
The Austrian company Johann Offner has acquired a 74.9% holding in the cross laminated timber producer KLH Massivholz. Secrecy was agreed regarding the purchase price. The remaining 25.1% of shares remain in the ownership of Christian ...
Tags: Austrian, cross laminated timber, KLH Massivholz, wood sector
The volumes of thermally-modified timber sold by the members of the International ThermoWood Association (ITWA) rose again sharply in 2011 by 19.2% to a total of 109,757 m³. As growth of 24% had already been registered the year before, ...
Tags: thermally-modified timber, ITWA, rise, sales
Amorim has seen a continuation of the uphill trend in turnover shown last year in practically all business divisions in the first quarter of 2012 as well. In this vein, the Floor & Wall Coverings business unit (BU), which integrates all of ...
Many of us have known that currently China is the largest furniture exporting country. For example in last 2009 the export of China furniture reached to almost 26 billion USD. No wonder that around 30% furniture of the world is manufactured ...
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The US company Louisiana-Pacific plans to expand its European distribution of engineered wood products (EWP) launched in the UK in 2010 into the markets in continental Europe as well this year. The EWP are being sold in the UK under the ...
Tags: US, Louisiana-Pacific, EWP, Belgian
The Russian company Ladozhsky DSK reports that it is currently setting up an integrated timber industry complex for producing cross-laminated timber, gluelam beams, and prefabricated houses in Avrovo in the Leningrad region at a cost of ...
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With effect from 1 January 2013, the Swedish timber and pulp concern Södra will take over the Swedish flooring manufacturer Föllinge Golv via its subsidiary Södra Interiör. Föllinge Golv produces 40,000 m² of ...
Tags: timber, pulp, floor, solid wood flooring, takeover
The onset of winter in the last few days has accelerated an already seasonal reduction in demand on the German sales markets for softwood lumber. Irrespective of this, there have been no major slumps in softwood prices in the last two ...
Tags: softwood, German demand, softwood market, softwood lumber
The Spanish market for Scandinavian softwood lumber is currently characterised by very subdued business activity. A revival in demand due to replacement purchases at the end of the holiday period proofed to be short-lived after all. Demand ...
Tags: softwood lumber, Spain, timber, timber market
Halifax city hall s proposed wood-first policy is a thinly veiled marketing campaign by the timber industry and a misguided environmental protection measure. This is the wrong approach to greening our cities, roads, workplaces and homes. I ...
Tags: Halifax, marketing campaign, timber industry, environmental protection