No. 10 of 10 March 2010
Markets
- Particleboard prices look set to move higher again in the second quarter
- US hardwood log exports down by 22 % in 2009
- US imports of beech lumber increased by 57 % in Q4
- Main assortment sales are only slowly getting into gear at the moment
- Shippers pressing for higher prices in Levant region for deliveries in April
- Restrained export activity at the end of the year
- Log prices and felling in Norway rising again
- East Siberia: Sawmills forced to curtail production
- Baltic Sea: Shipping traffic almost unhindered
- Demand for larch lumber from east Siberia has grown a little in early March
- North Russia: Sawmills reporting log shortage
- Noticeable recovery in demand for Russian whitewood since mid-February
- Latvian exports rose sharply in fourth quarter 2009
- Reduced output of blocks and strips made of oak
- Initial estimates put windthrow caused by Xynthia at roughly 4 million m³
- Foreign trade in softwood lumber slow recently
- Average pellet price reached peak in 2009
- Japan: Imports of gluelam from Europe up in 2009
- German pallet industry registered 22% reduction in sales revenues in 2009
- FJC manufacturers start March with initial round of price increases
- Timber industry sales recovered in late 2009
- Blockboard producers have not managed to raise their prices yet
- Okoumé plywood prices set to move higher from the start of March
- Finnish plywood production down 38% last year
- Hardwood plywood imports increased also in Q4
- North America: Wood-based panel sales still down in fourth quarter 2009
- 44th International Wood Composites Symposium
- Wood-based panels industry: Wood supply problematic in the first quarter
- Furniture: Business climate deteriorates further
- Office cabinet furniture demand down from last year
- Furniture: Capacities are not being fully utilised
- Kitchens: Incoming orders still below last year’s level
- German and Austrian window producers quantify price hikes
- Situation on multi-layer parquet markets broadly stagnates up to early March
- European residential building to decline in 2010 by a probable 23.2 %
Companies
- Snaidero: Sales fell sharply in 2008 business year
- Inwido improves key performance indicators in Q4
- Deceuninck records 20% drop in turnover for 2009
- Nobia sells holding in Culinoma and Pronorm
- Mr. Bricolage turnover increased in the fourth quarter
- Poggenpohl seeing signs of recovery in early 2010
- Armstrong posts 16% fall in sales in financial 2009
- EPI: Turnover decline slows down in fourth quarter
- Homag generates profit in fourth quarter of 2009
- Follow-up financing at Homag up to 2013
- Sonae Industria has undertaken major capacity cuts in wood-based panels
- Yara invests US$4.1bn in Terra takeover
- DSM Melamine in the black again in fourth quarter
- Methanex commissions second plant in Chile
- Glatfelter completes Concert Industries acquisition
- Duratex: Recovery continues in fourth quarter
- GreCon announces dates for 2010 training events
- Plysorol: Walkout at two French locations
- IBV applies for Procédure en Réorganisation
- Re-organisation of Pfeifer management
- Norske Skog: EBITDA down as a result of weak demand
- ÖBF and Kelag seek new management for SHW
- Stora Enso: Much higher income in fourth quarter
- Holmen: Building of new sawmill running to plan
- Klausner: Exchange offers for only €73.5m
- PEA: Delay in implementation of pellet plant plans
- Weinberger about to take over gluelam producer SHI
