Flat glass prices fell .4 percent from November to December, according to the latest Producer Price Index Report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Labor Department. The dip in prices was hardly good news for the glass industry as it marked the ...
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Construction materials prices expanded just 0.1 percent in December and are up 1.3 percent year over year, according to a January 15 Producer Price Index released by the Department of Labor. Nonresidential construction materials prices also ...
German exports of rough-sawn softwood lumber in the third quarter were 6% higher than in the same quarter of last year at 1.433m m3. Data from the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden shows that deliveries to countries outside Europe rose ...
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Norwegian softwood-lumber exports to the EU in the first half-year 2013 were more or less as they had been in the same period of last year. Eurostat data shows that deliveries of rough-sawn and planed softwood lumber amounted to 255,391 m3. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Finnish softwood-lumber and planed-product exporters raised their foreign deliveries by 12% in July 2013 to approximately 543,000 m3 (July 2012: 485,000 m3). Here, exports to buyers within Europe rose by roughly 6.5% to 198,000 m3 (186,000 ...
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Although the upward trend identified on the US softwood-lumber market since June 2013 was still underway at the beginning of October, the rise appears to be gradually losing some of its momentum. According to information from market ...
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Although the Norwegian company Moelven recorded an operating result of +NOK11.1m for the second quarter of 2013, its pre-tax profit remains negative at -NOK14.4m. The quarterly sales revenue for the period of April to June almost matched ...
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Swedish softwood lumber and planed product exporters raised their April deliveries abroad by 1.5% against the figure for the same month of last year to approximately 1.011m m3. This made April the first month this year in which Swedish ...
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Difficulty in obtaining supplies of roundwood from February up to and including April have resulted in production at Russian sawmills showing slight decline of 1.8% to roughly 6.6m m3 in the first four months of 2013. In April , production ...
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In the first three months of 2013, the USA imported a total of 6.093m m3 of softwood lumber, representing a year-on-year rise of roughly 16%. According to figures issued by the Foreign Agriculture Service the value of imported softwood ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, softwood lumber
In the USA, the downward trend in softwood-lumber prices which started at the end of March 2013 continued undiminished last week. The Framing Lumber Composite Price (FLCP) determined by Random Lengths showed week-on-week decline of a ...
Tags: Softwood-Lumber, wood
Even before the merging of the two business divisions ?Building and Living" and ?Printing and Reading", which was announced on 23 Apriland which is to take effect on 1 July, the Finnish timber and paper concern Stora Enso had since 2006 ...
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At a total of 888,700 m3, Sweden exported 6.6% less softwood lumber and planed products in February 2013 than it did in the same period of last year. In doing so, softwood lumber exports to customers within Europe fell disproportionately ...
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During the course of the first quarter of 2013, European softwood-lumber suppliers showed a level of brisk demand unexpected in this form on the Japanese market. Following initially very sluggish purchasing behaviour by Japanese importers ...
Tags: European Consignors, Construction
The spring forecast by the Pellervo Economic Research Institute (PTT) in Finland predicts rising softwood lumber exports and higher selling prices for 2013. Overall, the Finnish sawmilling industry’s profitability is expected to be ...
Tags: Lumber Prices, Lumber Exports