E-Paper 17/2019: Digital edition of EUWID Wood Products and Panels

Schmidt Groupe increases production turnover by 4%

Russian state examining 80 % export duty on logs

ECG confirms European harmonisation of standards

VDM: export working group to analyse the US market

VDM adopts basis for new association structure

US suppliers only able to implement minimal white oak price increases

Losses at Hexion caused by interest expenses again

Pfleiderer reports stronger revenues and EBIT

USA: 2% increase in kitchen cupboard turnover in 2018

Binderholz enlarges drying capacity in Baruth

MDF Recovery cooperating with Kronospan in MDF Recycling

Further delay in construction of Accsys’ Tricoya works

Delignit expecting stronger growth in sales revenue in 2019

Fire at Kastamonu lumber yard extinguished after 12 days

UPM commissions technology in Chudovo

Little change among the ranks of Pfleiderer shareholders

Pfleiderer: no big movement in production and sales

Pfleiderer Leutkirch does not need to carry out an EIA

Pfleiderer Group: investments exceeded its budget in 2018

Decision on OSB line in Chirk pushed back

Wintersteiger’s sales exceed 160m € for first time in 2018

Masisa engages UBS to sell areas of forest plantations

Slight turnover increase for Forte in 2018

Jeld-Wen concludes takeover of VPI according to schedule

Hörmann constructs two new plants in China and USA

Chep Österreich extends service centre

Weinig opens new branch in Moscow

BayWa pellet sales boosted to over 460,000 t in 2018

Juodeliai to invest €40m in new sawmill

Setra’s result impaired by lower sales volume

Viken Skog increases turnover by 13% to NOK1.64bn

SCA acquires forest areas from Latvian Forest Company

People

Varying developments in Germany for multi-layer parquet manufacturers

Miscellaneous furniture turnover decreased again

Kitchen furniture industry marginally down on last year

14% turnover rise in January for US furniture industry

Supply pressure still playing out on MDF/HDF markets

OSB manufacturers still facing opposition to their efforts to increase their prices

IQS adds Holzring as a supporting member

Timber construction: turnover increased by 10.8%

Planned increase in KVH prices in April unable to be pushed through on market

Marcus Wallenberg Prize for Schickhofer in 2019

Planed lumber exports lose momentum

Marked price differences on sawn softwood market

Warning of catastrophic damage by bark beetles

One third of Vaia stormwood cleared in Carinthia

Sawlog prices in Austria reduced by up to 10 €/m³

Funding rate for wet depots rising from 35 % to 80 %

Norway: upward trend in roundwood prices continues

Arrivals of Siberian larch sawnwood subject to delays of several weeks in some instances

Competition authority widens scope of investigation

Poland: softwood sawlog prices virtually stable

Little hope of rapid increase in federal resources following AMK resolution

DoC to investigate kitchen furniture imports

Assa Abloy acquires Australian door manufacturer

Ghanaian timber exports down 1.9% in 2018

E-Paper 17/2019

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Schmidt Groupe increases production turnover by 4%

Russian state examining 80 % export duty on logs

ECG confirms European harmonisation of standards

VDM: export working group to analyse the US market

VDM adopts basis for new association structure

US suppliers only able to implement minimal white oak price increases

Losses at Hexion caused by interest expenses again

Pfleiderer reports stronger revenues and EBIT

USA: 2% increase in kitchen cupboard turnover in 2018

Binderholz enlarges drying capacity in Baruth

MDF Recovery cooperating with Kronospan in MDF Recycling

Further delay in construction of Accsys’ Tricoya works

Delignit expecting stronger growth in sales revenue in 2019

Fire at Kastamonu lumber yard extinguished after 12 days

UPM commissions technology in Chudovo

Little change among the ranks of Pfleiderer shareholders

Pfleiderer: no big movement in production and sales

Pfleiderer Leutkirch does not need to carry out an EIA

Pfleiderer Group: investments exceeded its budget in 2018

Decision on OSB line in Chirk pushed back

Wintersteiger’s sales exceed 160m € for first time in 2018

Masisa engages UBS to sell areas of forest plantations

Slight turnover increase for Forte in 2018

Jeld-Wen concludes takeover of VPI according to schedule

Hörmann constructs two new plants in China and USA

Chep Österreich extends service centre

Weinig opens new branch in Moscow

BayWa pellet sales boosted to over 460,000 t in 2018

Juodeliai to invest €40m in new sawmill

Setra’s result impaired by lower sales volume

Viken Skog increases turnover by 13% to NOK1.64bn

SCA acquires forest areas from Latvian Forest Company

People

Varying developments in Germany for multi-layer parquet manufacturers

Miscellaneous furniture turnover decreased again

Kitchen furniture industry marginally down on last year

14% turnover rise in January for US furniture industry

Supply pressure still playing out on MDF/HDF markets

OSB manufacturers still facing opposition to their efforts to increase their prices

IQS adds Holzring as a supporting member

Timber construction: turnover increased by 10.8%

Planned increase in KVH prices in April unable to be pushed through on market

Marcus Wallenberg Prize for Schickhofer in 2019

Planed lumber exports lose momentum

Marked price differences on sawn softwood market

Warning of catastrophic damage by bark beetles

One third of Vaia stormwood cleared in Carinthia

Sawlog prices in Austria reduced by up to 10 €/m³

Funding rate for wet depots rising from 35 % to 80 %

Norway: upward trend in roundwood prices continues

Arrivals of Siberian larch sawnwood subject to delays of several weeks in some instances

Competition authority widens scope of investigation

Poland: softwood sawlog prices virtually stable

Little hope of rapid increase in federal resources following AMK resolution

DoC to investigate kitchen furniture imports

Assa Abloy acquires Australian door manufacturer

Ghanaian timber exports down 1.9% in 2018

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