E-Paper 35/2014: Digital edition of EUWID Wood Products and Panels

MDF/HDF manufacturers offset slump in demand with production stoppages

Lower limit for roundwood prices reduced slightly

Meranti lumber and scantling sales fall short of 2013 levels

German demand for bangkirai mostly limited to smaller restocking purchases at present

Kronospan seeking permit to process waste wood

Order receipts at Homag rise by 20%

Prices for TMP woodchips rolled over in western Germany

Sharper decline than usual in domestic sales of softwood lumber in Germany in August

Swedish exports decline by 2.6% in May

Lumber exports increase in the second quarter

In the second quarter of 2014, Latvian roundwood exports show slight growth

Prices for Baltic planed goods decline by roughly €5/m³

Demand for Baltic softwood lumber stabilises at slightly lower level

Decrease in timber felling by Russian Titan Group

Sawmills in Germany offering markedly higher bonuses for early deliveries of beech logs

Kronospan begins building Strzelce Opolskie OSB mill

Peri wants to build up its international plywood sales

DLH sells US subsidiary to Central National-Gottesman

Kronospan Group takes over Maltese Raiffeisen Bank

Westag & Getalit delivers strong growth in earnings

Homag paid €14.3m to acquire stake in Stiles

Holmen Timber records clear increase in profit

Russian hardwood plywood exports jumped 16 %

Building permission granted increased by 4% in June

Surteco: Turnover growth weakens slightly

Continuation solution for pellet producer Secobois

Accsys must honour the licence with Diamond Wood

UFP achieves increase in turnover and results in Q2

Further turnover decline at Junckers Industrier

Koppers takes over two Osmose divisions

Sappi concludes sale of Usutu Forest Products

Prendville re-commissions sawmill in Kenora

Canfor acquires two further sawmills in USA

Danzer can resume FSC certification

Building starts in USA exceed 1 million in July

Decline in approvals for non-residential buildings

Utilisation of capacity in construction trade still at 70%

People

Strong rise in Brazilian elliotis pine plywood exports

Finnish plywood production up 9 % in the first half

Double-digit leap in EWP manufacturing in first half

Industrieforum Pellets to be held on 14 and 15 October in Berlin

Production cutbacks at KVH producers show recent noticeable increase

Recent production cuts in German sawmilling industry contribute to further easing in supply

Forest owners and sawmills agreed on price increases

Austrian sawmills still using wood flawed by natural causes

Reduction registered in Slovenian roundwood sales in June

Sweden: Fires destroy roughly 14,000 hectares of forest

Russian roundwood exports increase in second quarter

E-Paper 35/2014

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MDF/HDF manufacturers offset slump in demand with production stoppages

Lower limit for roundwood prices reduced slightly

Meranti lumber and scantling sales fall short of 2013 levels

German demand for bangkirai mostly limited to smaller restocking purchases at present

Kronospan seeking permit to process waste wood

Order receipts at Homag rise by 20%

Prices for TMP woodchips rolled over in western Germany

Sharper decline than usual in domestic sales of softwood lumber in Germany in August

Swedish exports decline by 2.6% in May

Lumber exports increase in the second quarter

In the second quarter of 2014, Latvian roundwood exports show slight growth

Prices for Baltic planed goods decline by roughly €5/m³

Demand for Baltic softwood lumber stabilises at slightly lower level

Decrease in timber felling by Russian Titan Group

Sawmills in Germany offering markedly higher bonuses for early deliveries of beech logs

Kronospan begins building Strzelce Opolskie OSB mill

Peri wants to build up its international plywood sales

DLH sells US subsidiary to Central National-Gottesman

Kronospan Group takes over Maltese Raiffeisen Bank

Westag & Getalit delivers strong growth in earnings

Homag paid €14.3m to acquire stake in Stiles

Holmen Timber records clear increase in profit

Russian hardwood plywood exports jumped 16 %

Building permission granted increased by 4% in June

Surteco: Turnover growth weakens slightly

Continuation solution for pellet producer Secobois

Accsys must honour the licence with Diamond Wood

UFP achieves increase in turnover and results in Q2

Further turnover decline at Junckers Industrier

Koppers takes over two Osmose divisions

Sappi concludes sale of Usutu Forest Products

Prendville re-commissions sawmill in Kenora

Canfor acquires two further sawmills in USA

Danzer can resume FSC certification

Building starts in USA exceed 1 million in July

Decline in approvals for non-residential buildings

Utilisation of capacity in construction trade still at 70%

People

Strong rise in Brazilian elliotis pine plywood exports

Finnish plywood production up 9 % in the first half

Double-digit leap in EWP manufacturing in first half

Industrieforum Pellets to be held on 14 and 15 October in Berlin

Production cutbacks at KVH producers show recent noticeable increase

Recent production cuts in German sawmilling industry contribute to further easing in supply

Forest owners and sawmills agreed on price increases

Austrian sawmills still using wood flawed by natural causes

Reduction registered in Slovenian roundwood sales in June

Sweden: Fires destroy roughly 14,000 hectares of forest

Russian roundwood exports increase in second quarter

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