E-Paper 45/2014: Digital edition of EUWID Wood Products and Panels

Munksjö Decor continues to show year-on-year growth

Logistics company Rhenus acquires Brenner group

Norbord completes projects in Joanna and Cowie

Duratex shows strong growth again in third quarter

Armstrong Wood Flooring reports lower sales volumes

Titanium dioxide prices headed lower in just a few cases

Increase in OSB manufacturing has levelled off

Drop in indices for solid wood in third quarter

Lumber Liquidators’ sales down on a like-for-like basis

Eurobaustoff timber turnover increases by 16%

Sachseneder launches production at Grafenwörth site

Dorma posting higher turnover and investing in Germany

Fuller aims soon to conclude restructuring in Europe

Exchange rate effects boost Nobia’s turnover by 5 %

Sägewerk Gams and softwood lumber business bankrupt

Kebony given fresh capital for new production capacity

UFP: Recovery continues in third quarter of 2014

Boise Cascade achieves turnover and results growth

Sveaskog: Higher roundwood volumes and prices

Improvement in result of Holmen Timber

Setra Group: Results figures only at last year’s level

Stora Enso: Weak Japanese market burdens result

Just over 120 people attended Surfaces Conference

Cutbacks in urea output having an impact

North American OSB prices stable for the past nine weeks

UK demand for particleboard has increased across all principal market sectors

Negotiations underway for raising purchase prices for oak gluelam boards by up to 7%

Stiff competition for gluelam beam deliveries to Italy

Upswing in demand for A1 pellets mostly failed to materialise by end of October too

Sawmill industry unable to assert substantial demands

BMEL presents draft for amended Forest Act

Industry rejects changes to log measurement method

Growing demand for side-cuts and packaging products

Portugal: 62% increase in lumber imports

70,000 m³ of damage caused by cyclone Gonzalo in Tyrol

Austrian sawmills scarcely able to keep up with Italian customers’ demand for side-cuts

Outflow of softwood sawlogs remains brisk in UK

Increase of 5.2% registered in UK lumber output

UK: 8.4% increase in softwood felling in 2013

Inflated supply causing further decay in spruce and pine lumber prices in the UK

Mixed development in log prices in Norway

Chile: Lumber exports increase by 11% up to end of September

Demand for Russian birch plywood remains unusually weak in October

FMW Industrieanlagenbau files for insolvency proceedings

CFO at Dürr becomes new board chairman at Homag

EU ends investigations into Ahlstrom and Munksjö

Westag & Getalit sees its growth in turnover slow

Dieffenbacher wants to make €25m in savings

Raute: Delayed completions burden turnover and result

Dutch timber merchant ceases trading

Further decay registered in log prices in third quarter

Reduction of €10/m³ in prices for spruce lumber in North Africa and the Middle East

Norbord: EBITDA declines only slightly in Europe

Strike in Tablemac’s Barbosa MDF plant

E-Paper 45/2014

In our print edition

Munksjö Decor continues to show year-on-year growth

Logistics company Rhenus acquires Brenner group

Norbord completes projects in Joanna and Cowie

Duratex shows strong growth again in third quarter

Armstrong Wood Flooring reports lower sales volumes

Titanium dioxide prices headed lower in just a few cases

Increase in OSB manufacturing has levelled off

Drop in indices for solid wood in third quarter

Lumber Liquidators’ sales down on a like-for-like basis

Eurobaustoff timber turnover increases by 16%

Sachseneder launches production at Grafenwörth site

Dorma posting higher turnover and investing in Germany

Fuller aims soon to conclude restructuring in Europe

Exchange rate effects boost Nobia’s turnover by 5 %

Sägewerk Gams and softwood lumber business bankrupt

Kebony given fresh capital for new production capacity

UFP: Recovery continues in third quarter of 2014

Boise Cascade achieves turnover and results growth

Sveaskog: Higher roundwood volumes and prices

Improvement in result of Holmen Timber

Setra Group: Results figures only at last year’s level

Stora Enso: Weak Japanese market burdens result

Just over 120 people attended Surfaces Conference

Cutbacks in urea output having an impact

North American OSB prices stable for the past nine weeks

UK demand for particleboard has increased across all principal market sectors

Negotiations underway for raising purchase prices for oak gluelam boards by up to 7%

Stiff competition for gluelam beam deliveries to Italy

Upswing in demand for A1 pellets mostly failed to materialise by end of October too

Sawmill industry unable to assert substantial demands

BMEL presents draft for amended Forest Act

Industry rejects changes to log measurement method

Growing demand for side-cuts and packaging products

Portugal: 62% increase in lumber imports

70,000 m³ of damage caused by cyclone Gonzalo in Tyrol

Austrian sawmills scarcely able to keep up with Italian customers’ demand for side-cuts

Outflow of softwood sawlogs remains brisk in UK

Increase of 5.2% registered in UK lumber output

UK: 8.4% increase in softwood felling in 2013

Inflated supply causing further decay in spruce and pine lumber prices in the UK

Mixed development in log prices in Norway

Chile: Lumber exports increase by 11% up to end of September

Demand for Russian birch plywood remains unusually weak in October

FMW Industrieanlagenbau files for insolvency proceedings

CFO at Dürr becomes new board chairman at Homag

EU ends investigations into Ahlstrom and Munksjö

Westag & Getalit sees its growth in turnover slow

Dieffenbacher wants to make €25m in savings

Raute: Delayed completions burden turnover and result

Dutch timber merchant ceases trading

Further decay registered in log prices in third quarter

Reduction of €10/m³ in prices for spruce lumber in North Africa and the Middle East

Norbord: EBITDA declines only slightly in Europe

Strike in Tablemac’s Barbosa MDF plant

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