E-Paper 42/2015: Digital edition of EUWID Wood Products and Panels

Euroshpon-Smyga veneer works’ sales doubled in 2014

Major variations in recent capacity overviews

USA: Prices for 2x4 currently roughly a third below last year

Only minor reduction registered in prices for planeable Scandinavian whitewood

Canada raises exports to USA by over 15%

UPM-Kymmene to adjust output of beech plywood

MM-Holz to close Kalwang plant and expand at Gaishorn

Thébault investing €10m in plywood production

Stallinger Holding taking over sawmill from MM-Holz in Frankenmarkt at turn of this year

PG Bison’s chipboard plant to be put into service in late 2016

Fenglin Group looking into a project in Taupo, New Zealand

VRG Dongwha investing in thin board line

Forte aims to achieve turnover of €250m in 2016

Schweighofer Fiber pulp sales show growth of 23% in 2014

Repairs at Laakirchen Papier to last until end of 2015

Schweighofer closes purchase of Klausner Holz Sachsen

Griffnerhaus increases 2015 forecast to €18m

Tolko cutting output in half at Quest Wood sawmill

Holzzentrum Muttscheller closes construction-timber sawmill

Moelven concern takes over prefab-house producer Hedalm

Pellet plant in Langelsheim to be dismantled following sale

Slight fall in furniture industry business climate index

Increase of 3.4% in German furniture exports

Furniture industry: 1.7% turnover increase

People

Upward spiral in raw oak veneer prices has slowed

Methanol contract prices drops below the €300 mark

Stoler set to become new CPA chairman from 2016

Kastamonu total capacity amounts to 4.5 million m³

EPF stepping up efforts to make E1 compulsory

Cheaper offers undermining calls for higher particleboard prices in Central Europe

Lower demand for lower-quality maritime pine plywood

Prices for Okoumé plywood to raise by another 2%

Spain: Pallet production up by 2% to 43m units

Virtually no cost relief for packaging producers

Higher trading prices for bulk A1 pellets impossible to implement until now

Southern German forest enterprises switching from clearing storm to bark-beetle damage

BaySF sets up 7 blowdown wet-storage facilities of 25,000 m3 to 100,000 m3

Less spruce and more pine lumber produced

In the first half of 2015, reduction of 1% registered in Austrian roundwood imports

Increase in Spanish tropical wood imports until end of June

British customers mostly only ordering as needs dictate at present due to ample supply

Storm causes up to 1.5m m³ of damaged wood in Finland

Oak roundwood imports from USA treble in volume

People

Rise of 19% in Spanish imports of oak lumber

Barlinek planning plywood and parquet plant in Vologda oblast

Spain increases imports from France and Sweden

Metsä Group concludes sale of Metsä Wood France

Winter Holzbau: Takeover completed as planned

Masonite spending USD13m on all shares in USA Wood Door

Parquet producer Mafi commissions second pellet plant

Bauwerk expands production line for surface processing

Grauthoff: New frame plant starts regular operations

No increase in installations of pellet-fired heating systems

E-Paper 42/2015

In our print edition

Euroshpon-Smyga veneer works’ sales doubled in 2014

Major variations in recent capacity overviews

USA: Prices for 2x4 currently roughly a third below last year

Only minor reduction registered in prices for planeable Scandinavian whitewood

Canada raises exports to USA by over 15%

UPM-Kymmene to adjust output of beech plywood

MM-Holz to close Kalwang plant and expand at Gaishorn

Thébault investing €10m in plywood production

Stallinger Holding taking over sawmill from MM-Holz in Frankenmarkt at turn of this year

PG Bison’s chipboard plant to be put into service in late 2016

Fenglin Group looking into a project in Taupo, New Zealand

VRG Dongwha investing in thin board line

Forte aims to achieve turnover of €250m in 2016

Schweighofer Fiber pulp sales show growth of 23% in 2014

Repairs at Laakirchen Papier to last until end of 2015

Schweighofer closes purchase of Klausner Holz Sachsen

Griffnerhaus increases 2015 forecast to €18m

Tolko cutting output in half at Quest Wood sawmill

Holzzentrum Muttscheller closes construction-timber sawmill

Moelven concern takes over prefab-house producer Hedalm

Pellet plant in Langelsheim to be dismantled following sale

Slight fall in furniture industry business climate index

Increase of 3.4% in German furniture exports

Furniture industry: 1.7% turnover increase

People

Upward spiral in raw oak veneer prices has slowed

Methanol contract prices drops below the €300 mark

Stoler set to become new CPA chairman from 2016

Kastamonu total capacity amounts to 4.5 million m³

EPF stepping up efforts to make E1 compulsory

Cheaper offers undermining calls for higher particleboard prices in Central Europe

Lower demand for lower-quality maritime pine plywood

Prices for Okoumé plywood to raise by another 2%

Spain: Pallet production up by 2% to 43m units

Virtually no cost relief for packaging producers

Higher trading prices for bulk A1 pellets impossible to implement until now

Southern German forest enterprises switching from clearing storm to bark-beetle damage

BaySF sets up 7 blowdown wet-storage facilities of 25,000 m3 to 100,000 m3

Less spruce and more pine lumber produced

In the first half of 2015, reduction of 1% registered in Austrian roundwood imports

Increase in Spanish tropical wood imports until end of June

British customers mostly only ordering as needs dictate at present due to ample supply

Storm causes up to 1.5m m³ of damaged wood in Finland

Oak roundwood imports from USA treble in volume

People

Rise of 19% in Spanish imports of oak lumber

Barlinek planning plywood and parquet plant in Vologda oblast

Spain increases imports from France and Sweden

Metsä Group concludes sale of Metsä Wood France

Winter Holzbau: Takeover completed as planned

Masonite spending USD13m on all shares in USA Wood Door

Parquet producer Mafi commissions second pellet plant

Bauwerk expands production line for surface processing

Grauthoff: New frame plant starts regular operations

No increase in installations of pellet-fired heating systems

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