Roundwood/Sawnwood

• Prices for eastern Siberian larch lumber remain largely stable in August despite holiday season
• 10 % reduction registered in Russian lumber exports
• Felling in Russia in July 2011 lower than in June
• Northwest Russian spruce lumber continues to lose market shares within Central Europe
• Latvian roundwood exports increased by as much as 26.1%
• Felling practically no longer hampered by forest fires
• Finland: Growth recorded in softwood lumber output until June
• United Business Media takes over Ecobuild
• Finland: Log deliveries still below last year‘s level
• Softwood lumber shipments down in North America in the second quarter
• Further growth in softwood lumber output until March
• Brisk demand for logs keeping price situation largely stable in Austria
• Hardwood lumber markets in UNECE revived slightly in 2010
• Lumber exports recovered in second quarter 2011
• Structural panels production declined again in Q2

Wood products

• Upward trend in window-scantlings industry continues in the summer

Wood-based panels

• Latvian plywood exports still higher than this time in 2010
• Demand for radiata pine plywood bounces back slightly after summer holidays end
• FFIF: Finnish plywood output grew again
• North American OSB manufacturers enjoy significant increase in exports
• North American composite panels producers‘ capacity utilisation rates stay low
• Slowdown in deliveries continued in second quarter
• GreCon wood-based panels seminar in Hanover
• Demand for MDF/HDF has undergone slight post-holiday revival since mid-August
• IHD Dresden holding ninth wood-based panels colloquium
• Summer reductions push OSB prices below last year‘s level again
• Slump in German particleboard exports persists

Furniture

• Demand for bathroom furniture remained brisk in July/August
• Fittings manufacturers anticipate possible renewed downturn in export markets
• VdDK members‘ order value up 5% in first half-year 2011
• Kitchen furniture industry sales 6% up on last year until June

Building products

• Interior door manufacturers registering high receipts of orders even in summer months

Construction

• Housing construction again shows satisfactory trend
• Japan: Residential building increases by 5.8 % in June

Trade

• Specialist wood merchants raise H1 revenues by 14%

Companies

• Lammhults: Office furniture segment improves turnover
• Slovenian furniture producer Javor Pohištvo bankrupt
• Javor Group: Another subsidiary files for bankruptcy
• Alno granted initial loan of €3m by Müller‘s Comco
• Forte enjoys strong growth in Q1 revenues and profits
• Eggerath: Business operations continue with work force of 60
• Kinnarps Deutschland bundles production in Worms
• Looser: Results forecast for 2011 corrected downwards
• Klostermann Küchen still up and running for time being
• Lowe’s: Turnover and result stabilising again
• Home Depot recovers again in the second quarter
• BlueLinx: Downward trend continues in Q2
• Temple-Inland: Timber business continues to operate at a loss
• IP: Take-over offer now extended until September
• Metsäliitto: Paper activities impose a strain on result
• Start-up in Braviken imposes strain on Holmen result
• Kurekss new sawing line starts up in fourth quarter
• Södra: Fire causes stop in production at Mönsterås
• Lafarge divests itself of gypsum operations in Asia
• Delignit: Results back in the black in first half of 2011
• Rougier books slowdown in revenue growth
• Pfleiderer Grajewo improves result again
• Gascogne records increased turnover in the first half year
• Uzin Utz shows further growth in turnover and result
• Roseburg to close two plants in South Carolina
• Resopal improves turnover by 17% in first six months
• Raute back in the black in the second quarter

• People