E-Paper 15/2011: Digital edition of EUWID Wood Products and Panels

Rising timber exports to China and Japan helped stabilising business trend last year

Order inflow slowing down again since March

VdDK: Order intake up in second half of 2010

Phenol contract price falls for first time in a while

Methanol contract price set at €305, as expected

180 delegates at Decorative Surfaces Conference

Demand for radiata pine plywood picked up in Europe since middle of March

Spain: Plywood imports up in first three quarters

Window-scantling suppliers mostly booked increases again in the first quarter

Supplements to cover higher transport costs

Austrian softwood lumber production is currently running at a comparatively high level

People

Prices for industrial wood continued to rise in February

Baltic sawmills have stepped up production

Demand for planed goods not increasing so far

Subdued demand for lumber makes significant mark-ups almost impossible

Lithuanian log exports rose sharply last year

Estonia: Roundwood prices stable in February

Sharp rise in Estonia‘s log exports in Q4 2010

Estonian softwood lumber exports up 25% in Q4

Meranti buying prices show recent rising trend

Indonesian bangkirai shipping backlog shows further increase in recent weeks

Pfleiderer standstill agreement extended to 9 May

Entecco takes 80% holding in LHS Clean Air Systems

Bürkle clearly surpasses turnover forecast for 2010

Arauco: Q4 shipments have increased noticeably

Potlatch Wood division posted another loss at end of last year

Plum Creek: Higher revenues in spite of lower shipments

German Pellets generated roughly €80m with bond issue

2010 sees Deceuninck back in the profit zone

Multiple profit increases for Saint-Gobain in 2010

Lafarge: Decline in result despite growth in turnover

Swiss parquet sector meets on 15 April in Dübendorf

Next German Holzbautag on 6 and 7 May in Bremen

Approvals down by 1% in non-residential building

Positive trend in building business in February

Building approvals up by 6% in 2010

Most producers satisfied with business development

Kitchen furniture exports rose again slightly in 2010

Bankruptcy proceedings against Mitteramskogler

Ilim Timber takes over Tolleson Lumber Company

Titanium dioxide shortage to last for some time to come

Particleboard producers now pushing for higher melamine-faced board prices

Vida closes Bello sawmill and transfers production

So far no major effects from Libya crisis on volume of sales of lumber in Levant region

Roma buys plot of land for expansion project

Homag wants to merge Bütfering and Weeke

Sharp rise in BRIC countries‘ share of Homag‘s orders

Production in Gällö to expand to 300,000m³ per annum

US sets import duties for parquet from China

Chile exported more softwood plywood to Europe in 2010

Finnish exports in January higher than a year earlier

Wood associations want sawmilling residues to be exempt from FSC proof of origin

E-Paper 15/2011

In our print edition

Rising timber exports to China and Japan helped stabilising business trend last year

Order inflow slowing down again since March

VdDK: Order intake up in second half of 2010

Phenol contract price falls for first time in a while

Methanol contract price set at €305, as expected

180 delegates at Decorative Surfaces Conference

Demand for radiata pine plywood picked up in Europe since middle of March

Spain: Plywood imports up in first three quarters

Window-scantling suppliers mostly booked increases again in the first quarter

Supplements to cover higher transport costs

Austrian softwood lumber production is currently running at a comparatively high level

People

Prices for industrial wood continued to rise in February

Baltic sawmills have stepped up production

Demand for planed goods not increasing so far

Subdued demand for lumber makes significant mark-ups almost impossible

Lithuanian log exports rose sharply last year

Estonia: Roundwood prices stable in February

Sharp rise in Estonia‘s log exports in Q4 2010

Estonian softwood lumber exports up 25% in Q4

Meranti buying prices show recent rising trend

Indonesian bangkirai shipping backlog shows further increase in recent weeks

Pfleiderer standstill agreement extended to 9 May

Entecco takes 80% holding in LHS Clean Air Systems

Bürkle clearly surpasses turnover forecast for 2010

Arauco: Q4 shipments have increased noticeably

Potlatch Wood division posted another loss at end of last year

Plum Creek: Higher revenues in spite of lower shipments

German Pellets generated roughly €80m with bond issue

2010 sees Deceuninck back in the profit zone

Multiple profit increases for Saint-Gobain in 2010

Lafarge: Decline in result despite growth in turnover

Swiss parquet sector meets on 15 April in Dübendorf

Next German Holzbautag on 6 and 7 May in Bremen

Approvals down by 1% in non-residential building

Positive trend in building business in February

Building approvals up by 6% in 2010

Most producers satisfied with business development

Kitchen furniture exports rose again slightly in 2010

Bankruptcy proceedings against Mitteramskogler

Ilim Timber takes over Tolleson Lumber Company

Titanium dioxide shortage to last for some time to come

Particleboard producers now pushing for higher melamine-faced board prices

Vida closes Bello sawmill and transfers production

So far no major effects from Libya crisis on volume of sales of lumber in Levant region

Roma buys plot of land for expansion project

Homag wants to merge Bütfering and Weeke

Sharp rise in BRIC countries‘ share of Homag‘s orders

Production in Gällö to expand to 300,000m³ per annum

US sets import duties for parquet from China

Chile exported more softwood plywood to Europe in 2010

Finnish exports in January higher than a year earlier

Wood associations want sawmilling residues to be exempt from FSC proof of origin

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