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– The amount of plywood exported from Latvia rose slightly by 2.9% to 111,600 (Jan.-June 2010: 108,400) m³ in the first six months of this month. This improvement comes on the heels of a slight increase in the first quarter of this year. The Latvian Ministry of Agriculture’s Department of Forest Resources in Riga announced that the value of these exports surged 19.1% to LVL47.4m (39.8m). The value of these exports previously far exceeded the growth in quantities in the first quarter. This trend continued in the second quarter. The quantity exported to Germany recovered between April and June after facing a 9% drop between January and March. Latvian suppliers delivered 10,500 (Apr.-June 2010: 9,700) m³ of plywood to Germany in the second quarter of 2011, a jump of 8% over the same quarter in 2010. Exports to France also edged higher to 4,600 (4,300) m³. On the other hand, shipments to the UK and the Netherlands were slightly lower than the same stretch last year at 7,100 (7,500) m³ and 4,200 (4,300) m³ respectively. Exports to Italy also fell short of the same period last year at 5,000 (5,200) m³. The value of these exports all increased despite less plywood having left Latvia.
Latvia exported 20,100 (Jan.-June 2010: 20,200) m³ of plywood to Germany in the first half of 2011. The value of these exports was nearly 17% higher than the first half of last year at LVL9.2m (7.9m). Exports to the UK were about 5% lower in volume terms at 13,900 (14,600) m³, but their value jumped 13% to LVL5.5m (4.8m). France took delivery of 9,200 (8,700) m³ of Latvian plywood with a value of LVL4.8m (4.2m) in the first six months. The quantity exported to the Netherlands tumbled almost 11% to 7,500 (8,400) m³, while the value of these exports improved 9% to LVL3.7m (3.4m). First-half shipments to Italy also declined to 9,200 (9,500) m³, but their value surged 13% to LVL3.8m (3.3m).
31.08.2011
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
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
Construction
- Housing construction again shows satisfactory trend
- Japan: Residential building increases by 5.8 % in June
Trade
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