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12.05.2021
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Forest and wood industries investing more heavily in developing long-distance logistics
- Poland: softwood sawlog prices stable at high level
- Further price increase for lumber expected in Spain
- Italian timber construction impaired by price increases
- Intake stopped after fire at pulp mill in Frantschach
- Cool weather delaying bark-beetle swarming
- Timber merchant appeals against teak judgement
- Pine longwood sections exceed €60/m³ ex forest again
- Industrial softwood prices stable or slightly rising
- Planed lumber production: renewed double-digit rise
Wood products
- Spring campaigns pressure trading prices for pellets
- Production of ENplus pellets rises to almost 14m tonnes
Wood-based panels
- Plywood importers endeavour to expand purchasing activities in China
- Further price increase for Indonesian filmed plywood
- Melamine remains in short supply
- Supply challenges facing resin manufacturers have increasingly shifted to melamine
Furniture
- Spanish imports of living room furniture decline by 11%
- Spain: kitchen furniture imports from Germany decline
- Spain: office furniture exports up by 5.3%
- Spanish imports of bathroom furniture up by 4.4% in 2020
- Upholstered furniture: material shortages and price increases further intensify
- Order value for kitchens increase by 4.6% in 2020
Building products
Companies
- Tarkett records significant decline in first quarter
- Deconinck to launch offer for remaining Tarkett shares
- Bauwerk Group improves results despite turnover loss
- AFI improves results, only due to special effect
- Uzin Utz: turnover and results up again in 2020
- Formaplan invests in new click drawer production machinery
- Nobia benefits from catch-up effects in some markets
- Schmidt unable to fully offset corona-related declines
- Multi-fold increase in Canfor operating profit
- Mercer Wood Products quintuples operating profit
- Setra Group: operating profit increases multiplicatively in Q1
- Versowood increases cutting at Vierumäki sawmill
- Holmen wood products division sales up by 51%
- HIT Holz commissions new planing mill
- Segezha listed on Moscow Stock Exchange since 28 April
- Logset’s sales revenue down to €37.5m in 2020
- Stihl’s sales revenue boosted by more than 16 % in 2020
- Decisions taken to refit Norske Skog mills
- Drax’ Amite pellet works in Mississippi fined US$2.5m
- Court clears Drax Group’s acquisition of Pinnacle
- Enviva’s earnings figures impaired by higher costs
- Enviva planning another major pellet works in Mississippi
- Surteco delivers big improvement in earnings
- Surteco ended Q1 with double-digit rise in revenues
- Ahlstrom-Munksjö revives divestment process
- Interprint starts work to expand Brazilian site
- Growth registered in Raute’s North America business
- LP: OSB division again increases over-proportionally
- Homann Holzwerkstoffe beat forecasts in 2020
- 2bn sqft of wood-based panels sold by Roy O. Martin
- UPM sells Jyväskylä works to property developer
- Egger Group reactivates its Building Products division
- Homag also acquiring press manufacturer
