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19.06.2013
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Roundwood rafts arrive at Archangelsk sawmills
- Russian consignors exploit rise in demand to implement higher whitewood prices
- Larch sales in Central Europe increase in May following weak first quarter
- Latvian roundwood exports down by 3%
- Improvement in supply of pulpwood for mechanical pulping in Austria
- Swiss sawmill attempting to boost timber harvest during summer months with early-delivery bonuses
- Marked increase in visitor numbers registered by Swedish forest technology fair Elmia Wood
- Sawmilling industry calling for price increases averaging €7-8/m³ at the middle of the year
- Another increase in softwood log prices up for discussion in southern/western Germany
- Settlement between BaySF and Ilim Timber under fire
- Varying levels of supplies to converters of pulpwood for mechanical pulping
- German exports of hardwood logs down by a third
- Growth registered in Germany’s beech lumber exports
Wood products
- High water: Stendal and Nordlam spared the worst
- Extensive price increases pushed through on gluelam beam market by beginning of June
Wood-based panels
- Brazilian plywood manufacturers have cut prices to reflect imminent duties
- Duty-free quota has fallen to just 110,000 m³
- Demand for plywood made in South-East Asia falling
- US postpones ruling on definitive punitive duties
- Some Chinese plywood manufacturers facing roundwood supply problems
- UK: Chinese plywood shipments tumbled in March
Surfaces
Furniture
- Furniture-industry turnover down by 6.4% to March
- Home furnishings: Order receipts down again year on year
- Business climate down in furniture industry in May
- Belgium: furniture industry turnover drops by 2.5% in 2012
Building products
- Parquet production in the 14 FEP countries now below the level reached in 2000
- Parquet consumption declines faster than expected
Companies
- Blum reckoning with turnover growth in 2012/2013
- Bene shows losses again in the first quarter
- Praktiker withdrawing from a number of foreign markets
- Shanks divests itself of Foronex trading division
- Metsä Wood axes 73 jobs in Finland
- Deufol and Meilink start packaging joint venture
- Pabst lays off 40 of 305 employees
- Finger Haus increases turnover to €144m
- German Pellets improves EBITDA by roughly 34%
- Junckers: Negative trend in turnover continues
- Bauwerk and Boen have completed their merger
- IFN reckoning with turnover growth of 12.5% in 2013
- Masonite showed improvement in turnover of 6.1%
- Profine invests €4m in new plant in India
- Siempelkamp sells Dongwha plant to Beypan
- Barlinek improves result considerably in first quarter
- Anthon providing Kronospan with a panel-sizing saw
- Glunz in talks about short-time working in Horn
- Trading in Munksjö shares under way since 7 June
- Multimeda birch sawmill invests in new frame saw
- Premier acquires another wood merchant in Ireland