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22.05.2019
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- USA: 2x4 price stable at US$329/1,000 bdft
- US softwood lumber imports increase by 2% in March
- USA levying 25 % additional duty on Chinese products
- Baltic sawnwood prices still under pressure
- Another sharp reduction registered in sawn softwood prices in Italy in April
- Spanish imports of softwood lumber increase by 20%
- Greater provision of industrial hardwood in Austria
- Germany: softwood-sawlog prices back at 2009 level
- 14.2 % growth in output of planed hardwood products
- Sometimes substantial cuts in carcassing-assortment prices
Wood products
Wood-based panels
- Canada exporting less OSB to Asian countries
- Unchanging trends in US foreign trade in OSB
- North American OSB output increases by another 3%
- Another double-digit fall in North American EWP output
- Little change in state of Central European particleboard markets in recent weeks
Building products
- Several interior door producers investing in modernising and increasing capacity
- US: ITC launches investigation into vinyl flooring imports
- Halstead, Home Depot and Välinge reach a settlement
Construction
People
Trade
Companies
- Three veneer suppliers sharing joint stand at Interzum
- Trex’s results down again for first time since Q3 2015
- Business continues at Globensteiner Holzwerkstätten
- I.B.H. Sägewerk chipper operational from September
- Stallinger put new sawmilling line into service in mid-April
- Rohol plans reconstruction of veneer plant by 2020
- Södra sells more roundwood and lumber
- Stora Enso: wood products achieves stable results
- Double-digit increase in Moelven Timber result
- XLam NZ considering closure of CLT works in Nelson
- Norra Skogsägarna turnover improves to SEK2.5bn in 2018
- Holmen wood products: profit increases by 42%
- Valbo Trä takes over Skutskär location from Setra
- Supplier problems restrict Ponsse development
- Swedish Bergs Timber intends to take over Fågelfors Hyvleri
- Kesla turnover continues to increase in 2018
- Steinhoff posts net loss of almost 4bn €
- Ardex Group acquires majority stake in Nexus Adhesives
- Swiss Nexus Investments takes over HocoHolz
- Freda invests €42m in new factory in Kaunas
- Nobilia starts construction on Saarlouis plant at start of May
- Armstrong Flooring: decline in turnover and profit
- Grauthoff Türengruppe intends to invest some €22m
- Turnover decline again in Amorim’s Floor & Wall division
- Jeld-Wen: turnover rise exclusively due to takeovers
- Inwido: special effects lead to turnover increase
- Mohawk: flooring North America profit plummets
- Double-figure growth in Medite Smartply’s sales revenue
- Valmet acquires refiner segment manufacturer
- Westag & Getalit contributes 82.3m € to Broadview
- Growth in sales revenue of all Hal companies
- Wrede planning to jettison its other shareholdings too
- Further decline in Ahlstrom Munksjö Decor’s margin
- Sonae Industria’s net result positive again in Q1 2019
