
03.03.2021

Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Sawn softwood likely to remain in short supply in United Kingdom until middle of year
- Czech Forest substantiates damaged-wood estimate
- US hardwood lumber exports up for the first time since 2018
- Price of pine in Estonia 16.5 % higher in December
- Further decline registered in Latvian roundwood exports
- Latvian sawnwood exports boosted by 9.5 % in Q4 2020
- Sharp reduction registered in Austrian pellet industry’s sawmill-residue requirement
- Industrial wood prices raised by board manufacturers
- Sawmills’ roundwood intake restricted by roadblocks
- Beetlewood incidence still high in Switzerland in 2020
- Initial forecast puts damaged wood 40 % below 2020
Wood products
Wood-based panels
- Wood-based panel manufacturers cite higher raw material costs in efforts to charge more
- USA: softwood plywood imports up by 12% in 2020
- USA: first rise in hardwood plywood imports since 2015
- HMRC investigating British import quota
- Latvian plywood exports record first increase since Q1
- Japan: double-digit decline for plywood imports in 2020
- Significant decrease in Spanish plywood imports
- Particleboard manufacturers have upped their asking prices again in the past few weeks
- Demand for worktops from the DIY sector cools
Furniture
Building products
- EPLF members manage to sell more laminate flooring for the first time since 2016
- Incoming orders and delivery times still at high level for German interior door producers
Companies
- Södra Wood’s wood sales volume increased 16 %
- Amkodor-Onega plans to build 98 forest machines in 2021
- James Jones putting new boilers into operation
- Rubin acquires 50 % of the shares in Ernst Fisch
- Interfor: production and sales figures stable
- Mercer Lumber more than doubles result for Q4 2020
- MAX Automation’s sales revenue down and EBITDA up
- Springer receives order from Pan Pac of New Zealand
- Forestia subsidiaries merged to form Felix Distribution
- Microtec gets PTB certificate for variable angle measurement
- Vestas Ventures acquires stake in Modvion timber-engineering
- Pfeifer planning to extend CLT sales to new markets
- American Securities acquires FBM and Beacon subdivision
- Les Mousquetaires boosts DIY sales revenue to almost €4bn
- Headlam Group records 15.3% less turnover in 2020
- Danwood to build prefabricated house works in Bialystok
- Jeld-Wen turnover declines mostly offset
- Jeld-Wen: appeal court upholds antitrust violation
- Jysk plans to expand store network in Ukraine
- Miele invests €28m in press and R&D centre
- First brick-and-mortar Ikea store opens in Ukraine
- Sachsenküchen increases 2020 turnover by almost 3%
- Nobilia: domestic growth significantly stronger
- Production launched in the two new Nobilia plants
- Akzo Nobel records double-digit rise in results
- PPG wins out over AkzoNobel in battle for Tikkurila
- Centuryply prioritising extension of Hoshiarpur works
- Kadant‘s Wood division ups sales of new technology
- Centuryply achieves double-figure growth in sales
- Schneider planning insulating board works for Hermagor
- Lebbing sets up branch specialising in decor printing
- Kronospan notifies anti-trust authority of planned stake
- Polytype Converting has merged with Olbrich
- Uvadrev orders another line from Siempelkamp