E-Paper 5/2015: Digital edition of EUWID Wood Products and Panels

Pavatex refills various management positions

Russian shippers maintaining pressure on prices in Europe with an increased supply

Hekotek delivers pellet plant to RusForest

Last year’s spruce price in Estonia 7% higher than in 2013

Furniture industry improves turnover by 1.5% in 2014

German pallet output up by roughly 7% until October

Egger also to produce laminate flooring in Gagarin

Stora Enso reckoning with burdens of €225m

Rodenberg Waldkontor commissions another ship

Frettolt takes over majority in Bussemas & Pollmeier

Osto-Holz takes over timber trader Gödecke

Turnover at Gascogne Wood falls by 15% in the third quarter

Last Praktiker overseas company now sold

Eurobaustoff: Purchase volume shows growth of 2.3% in 2014

Hornbach: Turnover in Germany shows growth

People

Kronospan successfully applies for injunction at Domotex

Demand for beech plywood at seasonally customary low level

Price range for poplar plywood approaches list prices again

North American particleboard sales up 6 % in final quarter

MDF and particleboard markets stable at year’s end

Mixed trends in North American OSB output

OSB prices softened in the US as the New Year dawned

Scarcely any growth in retail prices for pellets in January

BVVG: Forest sales down by over 11% in 2014

Hardwood log exports through port of Antwerp temporarily halted in January

New court hearing set for NRW softwood log contracts

Only minor reduction registered in shipments of hardwood logs before Chinese New Year

Saturated soil causing substantial obstruction to logging in northern and eastern Germany

National Bank discontinues pegging of franc to the euro

Prices for sawmill residues rolled over in many cases

Lumber production continues to increase in the Baltic States

Russian log exports down by a third in fourth quarter 2014

EU companies have already submitted import applications for 17% of the Russian quota

Increasing deliveries of logs to sawmills

EPLF members boosted their global sales again marginally last year

Metsä Group sells British pole manufacturer

Innovations4Flooring issues another five licences

Rise in pace of export activity could be reflected in greater demand for pallets

Demand for softwood lumber in early 2015 fails to match high level registered last year

Tolko and Pinnacle intend to build pellet plant in Lavington

Results at Pfleiderer show considerable annual growth

Vida opens own sales branch in Australia

Insolvency proceedings against Holz-Impex HS started

MMFA estimates European LVT market at 48m m²

Printing/lacquering line at Balterio to start operations in April

In brief

Plywood business at Paged shows growth again

Steico commissions seventh insulation board line

Wrede transfers company shares to family foundation

Enviva completes takeover of pellet producer Green Circle

Södra can impregnate more lumber in Åtvidaberg

Nordautomation supplies ER-Saha with mechanisation

RusForest completes sale of forestry company

Schweighofer targets turnover of roughly €1bn in 2015

Marmetschke continues to operate impregnation plant

E-Paper 5/2015

In our print edition

Pavatex refills various management positions

Russian shippers maintaining pressure on prices in Europe with an increased supply

Hekotek delivers pellet plant to RusForest

Last year’s spruce price in Estonia 7% higher than in 2013

Furniture industry improves turnover by 1.5% in 2014

German pallet output up by roughly 7% until October

Egger also to produce laminate flooring in Gagarin

Stora Enso reckoning with burdens of €225m

Rodenberg Waldkontor commissions another ship

Frettolt takes over majority in Bussemas & Pollmeier

Osto-Holz takes over timber trader Gödecke

Turnover at Gascogne Wood falls by 15% in the third quarter

Last Praktiker overseas company now sold

Eurobaustoff: Purchase volume shows growth of 2.3% in 2014

Hornbach: Turnover in Germany shows growth

People

Kronospan successfully applies for injunction at Domotex

Demand for beech plywood at seasonally customary low level

Price range for poplar plywood approaches list prices again

North American particleboard sales up 6 % in final quarter

MDF and particleboard markets stable at year’s end

Mixed trends in North American OSB output

OSB prices softened in the US as the New Year dawned

Scarcely any growth in retail prices for pellets in January

BVVG: Forest sales down by over 11% in 2014

Hardwood log exports through port of Antwerp temporarily halted in January

New court hearing set for NRW softwood log contracts

Only minor reduction registered in shipments of hardwood logs before Chinese New Year

Saturated soil causing substantial obstruction to logging in northern and eastern Germany

National Bank discontinues pegging of franc to the euro

Prices for sawmill residues rolled over in many cases

Lumber production continues to increase in the Baltic States

Russian log exports down by a third in fourth quarter 2014

EU companies have already submitted import applications for 17% of the Russian quota

Increasing deliveries of logs to sawmills

EPLF members boosted their global sales again marginally last year

Metsä Group sells British pole manufacturer

Innovations4Flooring issues another five licences

Rise in pace of export activity could be reflected in greater demand for pallets

Demand for softwood lumber in early 2015 fails to match high level registered last year

Tolko and Pinnacle intend to build pellet plant in Lavington

Results at Pfleiderer show considerable annual growth

Vida opens own sales branch in Australia

Insolvency proceedings against Holz-Impex HS started

MMFA estimates European LVT market at 48m m²

Printing/lacquering line at Balterio to start operations in April

In brief

Plywood business at Paged shows growth again

Steico commissions seventh insulation board line

Wrede transfers company shares to family foundation

Enviva completes takeover of pellet producer Green Circle

Södra can impregnate more lumber in Åtvidaberg

Nordautomation supplies ER-Saha with mechanisation

RusForest completes sale of forestry company

Schweighofer targets turnover of roughly €1bn in 2015

Marmetschke continues to operate impregnation plant

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