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04.12.2019
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Sawmills in Germany’s south offering 12 €/m³ add-on for short-term provision of spruce
- Chile: acceleration in export decline
- Belarusian lumber exports increase by one fifth
- Finnish sawlog prices 12 % lower than last year
- COFFI: further increase in softwood lumber production
- Rules for 2020/2021 roundwood sales set by Polish state forest administration in November
- Fine oak six-fold overbid at auction in Lublin
- NRW meanwhile anticipating 16.3m m³ of damaged wood
- ForstBW rolling over guideline prices for hardwood
- German road trials with containers now completed
- Surplus supply of pulp/MDF woodchips coinciding with balanced particle market
- Quality-related differences in price becoming more commonplace on sawn softwood market
Wood products
- Only 2.2 % growth in revenue achieved by carpenters
- Sharp increase in supply of glued-laminated oak boards
- Demand for gluelam timber only weakening slowly
- Autumn business in window scantlings remained less than satisfactory for suppliers
Wood-based panels
- Brazilian plywood manufacturers now selling material for shipment from late January
- Slower rate of decline for Latvian plywood exports
- Further double-digit decline in elliotis pine exports
- India exploring duties on MDF/HDF imports
- Brazilian wood-based panels market cooled in third quarter
- KAP facing cartel penalty of 10% of annual revenues
- Further decline in foreign trade in particleboard
- Formaldehyde: Storage place may not play a role after all
Events
People
Companies
- Pinnacle: higher raw material costs lead to loss
- GP: Warrenton sawmill officially commissioned
- Conifex concludes sale of Fort St. James
- Tolko: Kelowna sawmill to be closed on permanent basis
- Ikea Deutschland to open new style stores in Berlin
- Forte postpones plans for new plant in Suwalki
- Parador hopes to lift revenues to roughly €170m
- Network breakdown leads to losses at Lumber Liquidators
- Valentini sells 1.2 million shares in Neodecortech
- Ahlstrom-Munksjö signs letter of intent in China
- Ahlstrom-Munksjö sells off another unit
- Hexion: Slump in revenues has intensified
- Akzo Nobel set to invest €50m in High Point
- Eucatex: further double-digit increase in domestic sales
- Rehau making changes to the group’s organisation
- Dieffenbacher: Starwood accepts particleboard line
- Greenpanel running MDF lines at just 52% of their capacity
- CMPC: decline in plywood exports to Europe
- Pro-MDF boosts sales revenue and volume again
- Kronospan produces four different plywood qualities
- PG Bison wants to boost particleboard capacity by 8%
- Progress in dismantling continues in Bischweier
