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– German interior door manufacturers say they have so far been registering a brisk influx of orders over the summer months. The current orders position is generally being described as stable at a high level. In contrast to last year, high single-figure and sometimes even double-figure growth rates have been registered over the summer months as well as in the whole first half-year. Even in June, considerable growth was achieved in spite of the lower number of working days compared to the same period of last year. Although demand has become a little less brisk since mid-July due to the holiday period, it is still higher than the level of the past few years. Sales figures are well above those of last year, too. Suppliers believe this unbroken good business is attributable to private homebuilding and the continuing high level of corporate-scale contract business. Here, the positive development is being driven by undiminished brisk renovation business and an increasing number of new-building projects. Corporate-scale contract business is being described as largely stable at a high level.
German manufacturers are also expecting development to remain good for this year’s autumn business and at the end of the year. Good sales figures are expected from projects underway at the moment especially in the corporate-scale contract segment, though the growth rates in sales revenue and volume are expected to be slightly lower overall than in the year so far due to the baseline effect. At the end of last year, interior door suppliers had registered a sharp increase in receipts of orders. At that time the heavy demand had pushed a number of manufacturers to the limits of their capacity. Even in mid-November they were no longer able to confirm orders that had to be delivered before the end of the year.
Besides domestic business, development in export business has also been increasingly positive. For two months or so now, German suppliers have been observing heavy, rising demand from a variety of foreign markets. Surrounding markets in particular, such as France, Scandinavia, and the Benelux countries have shown more growth. Rising sales figures are being registered in the UK, too, especially in the large-scale contract segment. The minor upward trend observed in demand for quite some time on various eastern European markets also seems to be holding but suppliers say they are constantly turning down individual orders in these areas due to what is still uncertain funding.
In view of generally good demand in the last few months and a still high backlog of orders, some suppliers’ delivery periods have increased by an average of one to two weeks during the course of the summer. To counter the delays that have arisen in the meantime, a variety of suppliers have slightly shortened the company holidays they usually take in the summer months. One or two of them have added a shift to their production operations. The manufacturers say these measures have already shown an effect to the extent that delivery periods are already decreasing again. Delivery periods are expected to return to normal by the middle of September.
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