BASF and Glunz, a manufacturer of wood-based panels, have jointly developed four new colors for medium-density fiberboards (MDF). The color shades – Royal, Curry, Berry and Terra – are based on BASF pigment preparations from the ...
Twoey Toys & Active Designs, a family run business based in Cumbria, has launched a new outdoor range designed to help teachers bring their classes outside. Twoey Toys' production process has been designed to ensure component parts for ...
Tags: Twoey Toys&Active Designs, new outdoor range, Medite Tricoya
The US flooring group Mohawk Industries Inc. delivered a significant growth in revenues and earnings from all divisions during the third quarter of 2013. The company's Laminate & Wood and Ceramic divisions reaped the rewards of acquisitions ...
Tags: flooring, Construction, Decoration
The Canadian wood-based panels manufacturer Norbord intends to start refurbishment of the continuous press line at the OSB plant in Huguley-Lanett at the beginning of 2014. The plant was shut down indefinitely in January 2009. This serves ...
Tags: wood panels, wood, panels, wood industry
European wood-based panels companies have been talking a lot more about lowering formaldehyde emissions over the past few months. These discussions have revolved around the reclassification of formaldehyde in February 2014 after a proposal ...
Tags: Construction, wood flooring, flooring
The Mexican particleboard and plywood manufacturer Duraplay has followed the Chilean wood-based panels group Maderas y Sinteticos S.A. (Masisa) and Proteak in announcing an MDF investment project in Mexico. The company intends to install a ...
Tags: MDF, Construction, plywood, particleboard
At the end of June, the Canadian wood-based-panels manufacturer Norbord re-commissioned its US-American OSB plant in Jefferson, which had been shut down indefinitely in January 2009. The company had already announced this step at the ...
Tags: Construction, wood
The Kronospan group acquired the Russian wood-based panels and furniture manufacturer Elektrogorskmebel in April 2013. The company has so far been represented in Russia via the Egoriesvk factory, which trades under the name of OOO ...
Tags: Elektrogorskmebel, Kronospan
European output of particleboard, MDF/HDF and OSB all fell last year. Preliminary figures released by the European Panels Federation (EPF), which include EPF member countries apart from Turkey and Russia, show that European particleboard ...
Tags: Wood-Based Panels, Construction
German wood processing machinery producers managed to keep their output roughly unchanged at around €2.5bn in 2012, according to preliminary information from the Wood Processing Machinery division within the German Machinery and Plant ...
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The slackening off in turnover during the course of the past year in businesses belonging to the German wood industry also continued during November 2012. Turnover declined by 1.5% to €1.365bn in this period. At -5.5% to €333.3m ...
The Russian wood-based panels manufacturer Uvadrev-Holding ordered a complete particleboard line from Siempelkamp. With this additional line, Uvadrev will more than double production capacity at its Uva site to. The new line is to produce ...
The Finnish group Dynea Chemicals sold its 50% stake in the Australian joint venture Dynea Australia to the US firm Momentive Speciality Chemicals on 4 January. The company was subsequently renamed Momentive Speciality Chemicals Australia. ...
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The Chilean wood-based panels producer Maderas y Sinteticos (Masisa) has reached a deal with the Mexican firm Grupo Kuo to acquire the assets of the particleboard and laminate manufacturer Rexcel. As the Particleboard strategic business ...
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The investment firm Atlantik is poised to acquire the German wood-based panels group Pfleiderer, which has been insolvent since 28 March. Atlantik has little history in the private equity and wood-based panels industries. The transaction is ...
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