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– (EUWID-Boston) The slump on North American particleboard and MDF/HDF markets that surfaced back in summer 2010 remained in place in the second quarter of 2011, too. Continuing the trend seen in the first three months, composite panel manufacturers managed to raise their deliveries compared with the previous quarter. However, deliveries were once again lower than the same period last year.
The Composite Panels Association (CPA), based in Leesburg, Virginia, announced that particleboard deliveries improved by a normal seasonal amount of 4% between April and June compared with the first quarter of 2011; MDF/HDF deliveries edged 2% higher. However, particleboard deliveries tumbled 7% compared with the second quarter of 2010 to land at 1.488m (April-June 2010: 1.600m) m³. MDF/HDF deliveries fell even more, declining 9% to 860,200 (949,700) m³. Deliveries of both particleboard and MDF/HDF dropped 5% during the first half as a whole. These decreases continue to reflect the sustained weakness of North American particleboard and MDF/HDF markets. Foreign suppliers were unable to benefit from the drop in local manufacturers’ deliveries. Imports have fallen even more.
In a continuation of the trend seen in the first quarter, Canadian particleboard deliveries subsided much more strongly than those in the US between April and June 2011 compared with last year. The downturn in US manufacturers‘ MDF/HDF deliveries was greater than the drop faced by Canadian producers in the second quarter. Within the US, markets on the west coast again performed much worse than the south/east when it came to both particleboard and MDF/HDF.
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