Roundwood/Sawnwood

• More pronounced reduction in CFR China prices for spruce
• EOS: sawn hardwood production reduced in 2020
• Hardwood lumber imports decline in first quarter
• Oak roundwood imports increase further
• Spain increases imports of tropical lumber by 19%
• Spain: proportion of imports from Europe increases to 90%
• Spain: no increase in supply expected for the time being
• Croatian state forest office’s felling reduced in 2020
• French Timber starts petition against roundwood exports
• Ireland updates forecast on timber supply up to 2040
• Switzerland: roundwood cutting up by 4% in 2020
• Azobe seized from Dutch timber merchant
• Price for L 2a+ approaches peak value from 2013
• German contract negotiations on deliveries of beech roundwood often remained fruitless
• Decline registered in interest in industrial hardwood
• Beech exports to China remain at low level

Wood products

• Selling prices to trade raised by pellet manufacturers
• Pellet price in July higher than in June

Wood-based panels

• Winds of change have blown into the WESP technology market in recent months
• Additional consultation phase for revision of FSC standard
• Softwood plywood quota exhausted since mid-July
• Latvia: slight declines in foreign trade with plywood
• Spanish plywood imports increase significantly again
• Elliotis pine plywood prices now heading lower in Europe too
• NAHB reports that OSB prices have risen six-fold

Surfaces

• Felix Schoeller announces next round of price increases
• Pulp prices climbed by another US$50

Furniture

• Olympia athletes’ beds made of cardboard
• Turnover growth in the US furniture trade slows in June
• Spanish living room furniture imports positive again
• Spain: significant rise in kitchen furniture exports
• Spanish bathroom furniture imports increase by 18.7%
• Spanish office furniture imports up by two-thirds
• Demand for bedroom furniture increases during second quarter

Events

• Sicam: 500 exhibitors booked so far

Companies

• Sharp growth in sales volume achieved by Stora Enso
• Segezha to modernise Karelian Wood for RUB350m
• HMW FurnTeam takes over assets of HMW Möbel
• Assmann turnover down 10.6% in 2020
• Hülsta aiming to present innovations all year round
• Ashley Furniture opens new upholstered-furniture factory
• RTA furniture manufacturer Sauder building another works
• Rosebrock adds new-furniture logistics to its portfolio
• LG Hausys trading under name of LX Hausys since July
• Novo-Tech aiming to put new works into service by mid-2022
• Deconinck fails to acquire all Tarkett shares
• Canadian window producer VWD acquires Vinylbilt
• Andritz expects a sharp improvement in earnings
• Siempelkamp line now up and running at Huang Ge
• Duratex aiming to enlarge laminating capacity by 45%
• LP to switch Sagola works to siding production too
• 10% increase in Steico’s insulation output

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