Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchases (CFLP) In May, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.4 percent, down by 2.9 percentage points month-on-month. In view of the ...
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The timber industry in Malaysia is one of long-standing prominence, garnering much attention as one of the economy’s core components of growth. As the country is well-blessed with an abundance of rainforest and land, the steady supply ...
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Sodra Timber says it is working hard to reverse the negative trend in its business. Sodra Group acting CEO Gunilla Saltin outlined the company's position and efforts at its annual general meeting. "Now that we have been seeing negative ...
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Global trade in lumber has risen 25% in the past two years. After a sharp decline in 2008 and 2009, traded volumes rose to 90 million m³ in 2011, although this is still well below pre-financial crisis levels. According to the Wood ...
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THE construction industry will be able to count on the supply of plantation softwood timber increasing by about 27 per cent over the next 20-30 years. But the volume of plantation hardwood for similar and higher value use will lag far ...
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A TIMBER business is planning to grow by 30% and take on 12 new staff thanks to a £1.5million finance package. The P&A Group of Companies, a leading manufacturer and distributor of timber products, is seeking to increase turnover ...
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Stora Enso is to supply one of the largest wooden roofs in Finland to cover what will be Europe’s largest car showroom. The 50, 000m² roof for the Sunny Car Centre in Hämeenlinna will be produced at Stora Enso’s ...
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What do you look for when you first take a property in for viewing? How nice the schools are? Whether or not the schools perform well? If the whole property is tilting on a foundation of damp? Well, no, you're doing it wrong. If you're ...
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A cantilevered'hovering house,'a superb bird-watching centre,a delightfully light and spacious terraced house,an ingenious school extension,a cleverly designed dental practice and a contemporary family home incorporating a small eighteenth ...
A new strategy aimed at monitoring the supply chain of timber products using genetic and stable isotope markers will play a vital role in international efforts to combat illegal logging, say scientists, policy analysts and forestry experts ...
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A new company, backed by an Anglo-German partnership, has been formed to continue the business of German laminated board and doorblank specialist Moralt Tischlerplatten GmbH, which filed for insolvency last summer. Moralt AG has acquired ...
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WILLAMINA — The international markets didn't register a ripple, but on April 9, Arnie Swan drove 25 minutes from his home and reported to work at Boise Cascade's veneer plant. He's a new hire, not a worker called back from one of the ...
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Ghana is currently considering importing logs from Cameroon after losing its forest cover, which stood at 8.2 million hectares a little over a century ago. Ghana’s primary rainforest has reduced by 90 percent over the past few years, ...
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In looking at timber and how it should be used, I have been fortunate enough to use the notes prepared by David Hofmeyr of West Cape Joinery for a manual he wrote for the public and the joinery industry. So for the next few months – ...
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In April, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 53.3 percent, up by 0.2 percentage point month-on-month, continuing to stay above the threshold, while 2.7 percentage points lower than the mean value of the same period in ...
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