Valmet has secured an order to supply EVO-56 defibrator system to Chinese firm Chiping County Senqiang MDF, which belongs to Sensen group. The new defibrator system will produce 30 tons per hour bone dry (bd) unresinated fiber. It will ...
After its first appearance at this year's Ligna trade fair, the double-end profiler developed by GreCon over the course of the last two years, is intended to be shown in operation by Weinig on 6 November 2013 in Alfeld. The line concept, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In 2012 Plum Creek Timber was able to increase its total turnover by approximately 15% to US$1.339bn and the operating profit by 2% to US$281m. All business divisions contributed to this increase in turnover and results. The highest growth ...
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An initial decision has meanwhile been reached in the cartel proceedings conducted by the Polish cartel authorities against the wood-based panel manufacturers Kronospan Szczecinek, Kronospan Mielec, Kronopol, Pfleiderer Grajewo and ...
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The US company Louisiana-Pacific plans to expand its European distribution of engineered wood products (EWP) launched in the UK in 2010 into the markets in continental Europe as well this year. The EWP are being sold in the UK under the ...
Tags: US, Louisiana-Pacific, EWP, Belgian
Sales generated by the German wood industry (including the furniture industry) rose by 2.8% in the first half-year 2012 to €16.458bn. This was main attributable to the contribution from the furniture industry (+4.5%). In the wood ...
Tags: market view, wood
Central European chipboard and MDF/HDF manufacturers are meanwhile cutting back their output more conspicuously again. The number and duration of the stoppages will grow sharply in July; Machinery is being shut down for an average of 8-10 ...
Tags: market view, MDF, HDF, panel
UCM Timber (Specialties) Ltd, the only surviving part of the UCM Timber plc business, has been bought out by management for an undisclosed sum. UCM Timber (Specialties) chairman Mark Plews and directors Nigel King and Gary Mitchell have ...
Tags: market view, timber
In the log sheet, from 2011, has been subject to freight, labor, raw material price increases, soaring timber prices can be described. Aftermath of the financial tsunami and hurricane shocks after shuffling, plywood and March 2010 came the ...
Tags: floor