The Austrian timber industry association believes Austria’s sawmills lost considerable market shares on export markets for softwood lumber in 2012. At the press conference at the 52nd “Internationale Holzmesse” in ...
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According to a forecast by the UK Timber Trade Federation, British softwood lumber imports in 2012 are going to be 3.4% lower than last year at 4.81m m³. As such, imports from Sweden will fall by 2% to 2.19m m³. A reduction of 13% ...
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MALAYSIA PRIDE ENCOURAGESCOMPANIES TO IMPROVE&INNOVATE AS IT AIMS TO BUILD A NETWORK OF WORLD-CLASS MANUFACTURERS Mr Au Leck Chai Chief Executive Officer Malaysian Furniture Promotion Council(MFPC) Mr Au assumed the position ...
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Sarawak,Malaysia:President of the Sarawak Furniture Industry Association(SFIA),Lai King Min,believes that"the shortage of raw materials must be resolved before progress could be made in the Sarawak furniture industry."Mr Lai was speaking at ...
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A serendipitous alignment of program, a compatible historic structure and creativity, have resulted in an environmentally sensitive, high-tech classroom building that is transforming the teaching and learning experience – along with ...
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August was a tough month for Minnesota’s timber industry. The Verso paper mill in Sartell and the Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant in Duluth both shut down permanently, putting 400 people out of work. The plant closings were among the ...
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In August, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 49.2 percent, down by 0.9 percentage points month-on-month. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of large-sized enterprises was 49.1 percent, decreased 1.2 ...
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The sawmill Holzindustrie Lenzing will be terminating production of soft-wood lumber, planed products, finger-jointed structural timber, and solid wooden boards at the facility in Upper Austria. Lumber production is to end on 30 September ...
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Timber mill workers in South Australia's South East have made a vote of no confidence in the Forestry SA board at a large rally in Mount Gambier. About 700 Carter Holt Harvey employees took strike action this morning. Workers are protesting ...
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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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The competitiveness of Finnish sawmills has weakened continuously since the beginning of this year and their market share has decreased. Further production losses are also feared. In the view of CEO Kai Merivuori of the Finnish Sawmills ...
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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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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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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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