Lumber prices are rising in the U. S. Because of greater demand in Asia, which is a sign of recovery in the international real estate market. The exchange-traded fund for lumber, Claymore Beacon Global Timber Index (CUT, quote), has climbed ...
Tags: market view, lumber, demand, price
Like many startups, Haworth's first home was a garage. In 1948, company founder GW Haworth borrowed $10,000 from his folks to expand his woodworking business and Modern Products was born. In 1954, when a customer stopped in his office with ...
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UK-Black Light is now able to offer new-to-stock,lightweight and easy-to-manage staging thanks to its investment in the Lite Deck system from the Prolyte Group. "We've added over 100 pieces of this innovative kit to our hire stock,"says ...
Tags: Black Light, investment in the Lite Deck system, the Prolyte Group
There are a lot of decisions to make when you decide to remodel your old bathroom or add on a new bathroom. While most people think about whether to paint or use wallpaper, or maybe they are leaning between hard wood flooring and tiles, ...
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Residential flooring manufacturers in the U. S. Increased their lumber purchases, but several were not receiving as much as they wanted. Unfinished oak strip flooring prices have trended steadily higher since early spring, which some credit ...
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Pfleiderer generated consolidated turnover in the first quarter of of €388.9m, virtually unchanged year on year. The decline of 0.6% was attributed by Pfleiderer primarily to the sale concluded on 24 Januaryof the Moncure particleboard ...
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A solution has meanwhile been found for the survival of the parquet manufacturer Huot Parquets, insolvent since September 2011, according to reports in the French media. The commercial court in Troyes has apparently approved the acquisition ...
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C.K Magma,the award-winning brand from C.K tools,has extended its 28-strong collection of premium fabric storage and Personal Protective Equipment(PPE)products with the introduction of three sets of highly functional and extremely durable ...
Tags: Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, knee pads, protection
Hard maple supplies stayed under control through the peak winter cut, even with Canadian hardwood lumber production 29 percent higher during Q1 2012 than during the same period in 2011, according to Statistics Canada. Apparently, markets ...
Tags: market view, whitewood, price
There are, traditionally, two ways to introduce light into your home - with windows and with lights. Experiments with wrenching a gaping maw of a hole in your roof and letting the natural illumination of the sun flood in have been: ...
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Kronospan is awaiting final approval of a massive euro bank loan to build an MDF and laminate flooring plant in Belarus. Kronospan Belarus wants to build the €102m facility beside an existing chipboard mill on a former tractor site as ...
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Our outlook for summer lumber prices has grown a bit brighter as it has become less likely the industry will severely out-produce demand. Historically, sustained strength in poplar demand would have long since triggered enough production to ...
Tags: market view, hardwood, lumber, demand
Designed by Antonio Di Oronzo, principal of bluarch, Omonia Bakery is a brand new project for the family that behind the renowned Omonia brand famous for its Greek pastries. It sells pastries and breads prepared on premises in the ...
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Parador plans to post turnover of €143-145m in 2012. The company employed about 600 workers and generated turnover of €135m in 2011, an increase of a good 5%. Parador’s laminate flooring activities delivered an improvement ...
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New figures show that Poland maintained its position as Europe’s leader of parquet floor production in 2011. The European Federation of the Parquet Industry (FEP) said Poland's production share of the FEP area was 17.6%, followed by ...
Tags: market view, parquet flooring