In spite of further declines in turnover and the considerably lower EBITDA seen in the first half of 2013, the Floor & Wall Coverings division of the Portuguese cork group Corticeira Amorim showed an improvement in the first nine months of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Floor
On 18 April 2013, the Austrian sawmill-equipment supplier M-T-T Maschinentechnik filed its own application for the commencement of rescue proceedings at the Klagenfurt district court. In addition to declines in order receipts totalling ...
At €61.6m, turnover at the Finnish forestry-machinery manufacturer Ponsse showed a sharp year-on-year fall in turnover in the first quarter of 2013. This decline is mainly due to short-time working and related production cutbacks, ...
Tags: Working Depresses, Construction
Notwithstanding the continuing wintry weather, the last two to three weeks have seen a revival in business activity on German softwood-lumber markets. Important reasons for this trend are what are evidently for some businesses’ ...
Tags: softwood-lumber, hoc price, Germany
Following relatively brisk business in the first few months of the current year, manufacturers of standard pallets have since approximately the beginning of May seen a slightly weaker level of demand for standard pallets on the German sales ...
Tags: standard pallets, fallen, sales figures, order receipts
In the third quarter of this year, the Finnish forestry-machinery manufacturer Ponsse was unable to show the desired growth in order receipts. At €62.5m, the order book as at 30 September 2012 was on the one hand significantly lower ...
The conspicuous growth in incoming orders since the fourth quarter of 2011 has been increasingly reflected in the Finnish machinery producer Raute's turnover figures since the third quarter of 2012. At 9.9m (Jan. -Sept. 2011: 21.6m) ...
Tags: market view, timber
From the point of view of Central European manufacturers of standard pallets, the period from the beginning of February to mid-March 2012 showed a slight revival in demand again. Following a weak start to the year and a first slight ...
Tags: market view, pallets, price
Recent months have seen ups and downs in the partial sector of the furniture industry which is dependent on consumer business. Business which had still been described as unexpectedly good last summer mostly weakened at the beginning of the ...
Tags: market view, Furniture