Finland’s wood product exports increased by 4% in 2011, according to fresh statistics released by the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF). While timber exports increased, pulp and paper exports remained at the same level as ...
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J. U. A. Frischeis started thermally modified timber production at its subsidiary J. F. Furnir in Romania. The thermally modified timber production plant supplied by the Finnish sawmill equipper Jartek boasts capacity of roughly 3, 200 ...
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Finnish sawmiller Vapo Timber has declared a €9.3m operating loss for 2011 (2010: € 7m profit). Vapo said its raw materials costs increased by 6% during the year, while the average selling price fell by 7%. Sawmill ...
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Conditions in the building products business are likely to remain challenging in southern Europe and the UK, Saint-Gobain says in its annual results. The global building distribution and construction product manufacturing business reported ...
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Vancouver-based West Fraser Timber -- North America's largest softwood lumber producer -- posted a fourth-quarter loss of $10.6 million, or 25 cents a share from operations hurt by weak lumber and pulp prices in October-December. It earned ...
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The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF), the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), the UK SIP Association (UKSIPS) and the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA) have signed up as official show partners for Timber Expo ...
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MISSOULA- A new study performed by the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research shows that 2011 wasn't a very good year for the forest products industry in the Treasure State. The industry saw a big drop during the ...
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KUCHING: Malaysia is coming up with a “constructed” price for plywood in the wake of its manufacturers being penalised by South Korean authorities on charges of dumping their panel products. This proposed price is being worked ...
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ELEANOR HALL: Let's hear now from the South Australian academic who is proposing a radical rethink of building construction in Australia in order to reduce the country's carbon footprint. Professor Steffen Lehmann proposes that instead of ...
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Forest clearance on disputed land-leases in Papua New Guinea is likely to continue at record levels for the next five to six years, according to the organisation which represents logging companies. In 2011, logging on Special Agricultural ...
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Timber and forest products companies are once more among the top performers in terms of minimising the risk of their activities causing deforestation, according to the latest report from the Forest Footprint Disclosure initiative (FFD). The ...
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The British Timber Trade Federation (TTF) reports that at the beginning of 2012 it expelled two members from among its ranks. According to the latest TTF Newsletter, the affected companies had not implemented the federation's condition of ...
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VietNamNet Bridge – Hull, the cover of the rice grain, is ground into powder, then it is mixed with glue and additives to create material balls. These allow making ecological wood planks from which people can make wooden furniture ...
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The United States and Canada have announced a two-year extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement, which those in New Hampshire’s lumber industry say is good news. “Most everybody that I know that’s producing softwood ...
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Recent housing data suggests that 2012 may be the year of turnaround in the housing markets. While a healthy recovery for the markets still seems far away, the prices are now bottoming out. As a result of improving sentiment, the home ...
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