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15.05.2013
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Baltic shippers push through marked increase in softwood lumber prices in East Asia
- Improvement in supply of logs to Baltic sawmills
- Baltic sawmills’ cutting rate up due to higher supply of logs
- Estonian log exports reduced by 10 % in 2012
- Ukrainian log exports to EU up 10% in 2012
- Demand for planed products stabilised by beginning of May
- Marked rise registered in Finnish exports in February
- Log prices in Norway down slightly in March as well
- NRW reserves 195,000m³ for Klausner until October in an out-of-court settlement
- Supply of high-quality timber in 2012/2013 season roughly 24% below last year’s level
Wood products
Wood-based panels
- Demand for Russian birch plywood holding at late March’s level
- Okoumé plywood manufacturers trying to raise prices since early April
- Demand for maritime pine plywood has been a little stronger since mid-April
- Demand for phenol still subdued in May
- Double-digit growth in sales of engineered wood products
- TFM sales bounce back slightly in North America
- Sharp growth in particleboard and MDF/HDF sales
- North American composite panels markets make first-quarter recovery
Surfaces
- Interprint becoming the fourth European decor printer to expand to Brazil
- Decor paper prices left largely untouched in the second quarter after all
Furniture
- 2013 expected to see slight growth in the kitchen industry
- Turnover in the furniture industry down by 3.5% to February
- VdDP to publish internal order statistics with immediate effect
Building products
Events
- Interzum Guangzhou attracts 8% more visitors again in 2013
- German Pavilion at Intermob/WPM for first time
Trade
- GD Holz: Substantial increase in demand in timber trade
- Wood Trade Day held parallel to Holzland meeting for first time
- FSC Plenary Assembly to be held in mid-June in Berlin
- „Forests for Future Generations“ Conference to be held in mid-June
Companies
- Homebase now markets Habitat in 200 stores
- Accsys increases turnover by 25% in 2011/2012
- Moelven shows loss for first quarter of this year
- Rougier: 2012 results slide into the red
- Moelven modernises five production sites in 2013
- Rentech aims to start pellet production in 2014
- Further recovery in West Fraser’s wood activities
- Raute’s sales revenue and results up in first quarter too
- Teutoburger Sperrholz to be sold to Chinese investor
- Böker beech plywood production to be continued
- Surteco expecting stable sales at best in 2013
- Mohawk completes take-over of Spano Group
- Inwido now holds all shares in Frovin Vinduer
- Dieffenbacher starts marketing its Colorizer technology again
- PAL/Imal wants to become Globus’ sole owner in the medium term
- Steelcase spends US$35m on restructuring
