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15.01.2020
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Slight decline in British softwood lumber imports
- Green timber felling remains sporadic in Germany
- Prices for beetle-damaged and industrial wood cut by Södra
- Swedish government pushing bark-beetle control measures
- Beech: continued decline in exports to China
- Reduced rate of decay registered in sawnwood prices
- Quinn Emanuel preparing legal action against log cartel
- Above-average growth in planed lumber production
Wood products
- Output boosted by Swiss specialist gluelam group
- Pellet production in USA 15.6 % higher than in 2018
- Growing demand for pellets in Japan and South Korea
Wood-based panels
- Methanol contract price left untouched
- Duty-free quota launches at 650,000 m³ after all
- Finnish plywood production in negative territory in Q3 too
- ACC forms consortium for formaldehyde
- Particleboard producers manage to institute E05 surcharges in just a handful of cases
Furniture
Construction
Events
People
Companies
- Swift reorganisation by transfer sought for Sörnsen Holzleisten in wake of insolvency
- Stora Enso selling KVH works in Pfarrkirchen
- Work on Pfeifer railway siding underway in Lauterbach
- MM-Holz selling gluelam works in Richen to Oswald
- WK-Paletten acquires 60 % share in Kayser Paletten
- Parquet producer Berg & Berg files for bankruptcy
- Pölkky orders planing equipment from Weinig
- Steelcase turnover in EMEA region just down on last year
- Palmberg invests almost €15m in 2019 financial year
- Increases for Herman Miller in North America and retail sector
- Surteco Group unveils more restructuring measures
- Kronospan set to double its capacity in Chirk
- P3G to integrate Parisot into new company
- Saviola acquires 50% stake in Nolte Holzwerkstoff
- Sonae Industria wants to cut bank liabilities by €50m
- Egger invested almost €300m by the end of October 2019
- Egger Group books growth in most key financials
