Roundwood/Sawnwood

• North Africa: high supply coinciding with slack demand
• New record level reached in logging in Finland in 2018
• Pressure exerted on sawn softwood prices remains undiminished in Italy in July
• Swiss authorities close forests due to damaged beech
• Only minor damage left in wake of stormfront in Switzerland
• Klöckner brings up topic of reforestation scheme
• Baden-Württemberg: Spruce only available as an addition
• Thuringia anticipating 2.7m m³ of beetlewood in 2019
• Bavaria raising subsidy for beetlewood clearance
• Ongoing debate on prices on sawn softwood market
• Over 400,000 m³ of damaged beech in Thuringia
• Slightly slacker demand registered for oak sawnwood
• Smaller range of prices for trimmed beech sawnwood

Wood products

• FEFPEB welcomes change in EU packaging directive
• Growth of 4 % expected in timber construction sales

Wood-based panels

• Germany: New formaldehyde rules to take effect in January 2020 as planned
• Brazilian plywood industry takes even more downtime
• Brazil exporting less elliotis pine plywood than last year
• Undercutting by retailers has pushed OSB prices even lower in Q3
• DIY chains hardly altered their OSB prices since spring
• Central European MDF/HDF buyers paying more attention to safeguarding supply again
• Kastamonu’s CEO Yildiz giving keynote at GreCon symposium
• EPF annual report now available to order
• OSB producers working on verifying VOC compliance

Furniture

• Further turnover decline for German furniture industry
• German furniture exports decline by 2.4% in April
• 1.8% rise in incoming orders for kitchen industry in April

Companies

• Shut down for several weeks at Tableros Hispanos
• Greenlam acquires Swiss distributor Decolan
• Mill Panel markedly increases capacity with new press
• Evergreen’s results down due to lower capacity utilisation
• Baishida Fibreboard orders two refiners from Valmet
• Mieco’s revenue from export sales down by a third
• Vanachai achieves turnaround in sales revenue and EBITDA
• New short-cycle press up and running in Grajewo
• Baumann Group increases production to 140,000 kitchens
• Sale of Warendorf kitchen manufacturer to Asian investor
• Narbutas aiming for double-digit turnover rise
• Vilniaus Baldai constructs new plant for Ikea deliveries
• Hornbach achieves significant increase in Q1
• Hagebau member companies take over Danhauser
• Corbat to build new pellet works with double capacity
• Landesforsten Niedersachen posts loss of 5.9m € for 2018
• Behnisch sells Holzagentur to Peter Driessen
• Non-recurring items render Pinnacle’s result negative
• Mühlböck to supply progressive kiln for Nordpan’s Olang works
• Rubner producing CLT on load-bearing 1-S board basis
• Enviva launches production at Hamlet pellet works
• Derix produces first CLT panel in new plant in Westerkappeln
• Pinnacle and Tolko planning another pellet project

• In Brief