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Hain transfers prefabrication back to Rott am Inn

Weru buys all of the shares in the window maker Unilux

Sawmill 25 group increases sawing by 15.8%

MDF manufacturers manage to use better capacity utilisation to lift prices after all

Social compensation plan for staff of Stora Enso’s Sollenau plant

PontMeyer turnover declined further in 2013

Fairfax Financial Holding takes over Praktiker Hellas

Eurobaustoff: Purchasing volume exceeds €1bn for first time

Holzland and Baustoffring conclude cooperation

Metsähallitus achieves record profit of €118m

Kingfisher aims to take over Mr. Bricolage

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Holz-Herr unveils its own invisible join technology

TFM manufacturers enjoying better capacity utilisation

Long winter makes dent into structural panels markets

59 % of the duty-free quota used by the end of March

Sveza preparing to raise prices again

Italy: Glulam producers raise prices by roughly 5%

Higher KVH prices to be implemented across the board by the end of April

Sawmilling industry in Germany stepping up efforts to reduce prices for softwood sawlogs

Increase in building activity generating higher demand for softwood lumber since end of March

4.7% growth in lumber output in Germany in fourth quarter

Sharp rise recorded in planed product exports to Asia

Poplar-roundwood exports falter towards end of season

More than 1m m³ of beetle damage in Austria in 2013

Spanish imports up 14% in fourth quarter 2013

Spanish wood industry’s exports raised by 9.5%

Log prices are stable at a high level in Estonia

Baltic sawmills’ cutting performance up in 2013

Industrial planing works mostly running at full capacity now

Log stocks moving at a low level in the Baltic States

Baltic shippers unable to get prices increases of €10/m³ for softwood lumber accepted in full

Canadian exporters will get back duties paid since October

Minor increase in Canada’s lumber exports to the USA

North American softwood lumber market failed to meet expectations in the first quarter

Importers of US hardwood lumber suspending purchases of some dimensions for time being

European hard flooring manufacturers are planning to export more to China

Masisa aiming to sell 62,000 ha of forests to Hancock

Sonae Industria: Total capacity now at 6.2m m³

Schattdecor ups investments by almost half last year

MDF Hallein intends to sell off stock by the end of April

Döllken and Kaindl/Kronospan forge alliance

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E-Paper 16/2014

In our print edition

Hain transfers prefabrication back to Rott am Inn

Weru buys all of the shares in the window maker Unilux

Sawmill 25 group increases sawing by 15.8%

MDF manufacturers manage to use better capacity utilisation to lift prices after all

Social compensation plan for staff of Stora Enso’s Sollenau plant

PontMeyer turnover declined further in 2013

Fairfax Financial Holding takes over Praktiker Hellas

Eurobaustoff: Purchasing volume exceeds €1bn for first time

Holzland and Baustoffring conclude cooperation

Metsähallitus achieves record profit of €118m

Kingfisher aims to take over Mr. Bricolage

People

Holz-Herr unveils its own invisible join technology

TFM manufacturers enjoying better capacity utilisation

Long winter makes dent into structural panels markets

59 % of the duty-free quota used by the end of March

Sveza preparing to raise prices again

Italy: Glulam producers raise prices by roughly 5%

Higher KVH prices to be implemented across the board by the end of April

Sawmilling industry in Germany stepping up efforts to reduce prices for softwood sawlogs

Increase in building activity generating higher demand for softwood lumber since end of March

4.7% growth in lumber output in Germany in fourth quarter

Sharp rise recorded in planed product exports to Asia

Poplar-roundwood exports falter towards end of season

More than 1m m³ of beetle damage in Austria in 2013

Spanish imports up 14% in fourth quarter 2013

Spanish wood industry’s exports raised by 9.5%

Log prices are stable at a high level in Estonia

Baltic sawmills’ cutting performance up in 2013

Industrial planing works mostly running at full capacity now

Log stocks moving at a low level in the Baltic States

Baltic shippers unable to get prices increases of €10/m³ for softwood lumber accepted in full

Canadian exporters will get back duties paid since October

Minor increase in Canada’s lumber exports to the USA

North American softwood lumber market failed to meet expectations in the first quarter

Importers of US hardwood lumber suspending purchases of some dimensions for time being

European hard flooring manufacturers are planning to export more to China

Masisa aiming to sell 62,000 ha of forests to Hancock

Sonae Industria: Total capacity now at 6.2m m³

Schattdecor ups investments by almost half last year

MDF Hallein intends to sell off stock by the end of April

Döllken and Kaindl/Kronospan forge alliance

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