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18.11.2020
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Demand for beetle-damaged wood currently surpassing volumes cleared by forest owners
- USA’s sawnwood imports from Europe boosted 79 %
- Demand for roundwood exceeding supply in Belarus
- Poland: lumber production recovers up to September
- Latvia: roundwood prices largely stable
- Sweden’s planed product and pine exports down
- Another rise in Södra’s prices for spruce sawlogs
- Sweden: Trämarknaden to be held as podcasts in 2020
- British lumber production declines further
- UK transposing EUTR and FLEGT into national law
- Irish sawmills must keep cutting throttled back
- Sawn-softwood buyers in Italy left with no option but to accept higher prices in autumn
- Slight easing in industrial-wood sales in Austria
- Purchase prices slightly reduced by Swiss sawmills
- Roundwood merchants reduce prices for beech for export
- Cancellations and changes to NRW auction dates
- Germany wood industry against restrictions in felling
- Largely cautious attitude on sawmill-residue markets
Wood products
Wood-based panels
- Woodworking machinery firms land 20% fewer orders
- VDMA elects new chairman and five new board members
- Ligna 2021 moved back from May to the autumn
- Little change in Canadian OSB exports
- Increase in OSB imports from EU slackens off
Furniture
Building products
Companies
- Homag’s key financials still worse than last year
- Homag finalises its acquisition of System TM
- Agreement on redundancy package for Hemmoor plant
- Ikea Deutschland turnover up by 0.9%
- Kimball International intends to acquire Poppin Inc.
- Westag & Getalit divisions show mixed performances
- Roto Frank Holding turnover exceeds 2019 figure
- Arbonia concludes syndicated loan agreement for CHF250m
- Am Zehnhoff-Söns offering roundwood handling in Bonn
- James Jones extending log yard in Lockerbie
- Piveteau Bois orders sorting line from Jartek
- Haliburton Forest subsidiary buys sawmill from Rayonier
- West Fraser producing sawnwood largely at capacity
- RFP reaps benefits from higher prices and volumes
- Siberian Zarechniy sawmill’s sorting station now in service
- Swiss Krono Group announces 4% drop in 2019/2020 revenues
- Shutdown for several days at Duratex plant in Agudos
- Pfleiderer permitted to further increase recycled-wood input
- Distributor ForestOne selling Egger products in Australia
- LP: OSB division records above-average growth
- Weyerhaeuser increases OSB turnover by 82%
- Norbord reports the strongest quarter in its history
- Norbord raises investment budget to US$100m
- 100 Mile House OSB mill to close its doors for good
- Glatfelter: Overlay paper revenues marginally lower
- OCI reports turnaround in its melamine sales
- Chemours increased titanium dioxide sales again in Q3
- GreCon hands 75% stake in IPAC back to Harald Jordan
- Starwood investing in second thin MDF line
- Steico planning fourth site in Gromadka, Poland
- Homann raised EBITDA by almost half in Q3
