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16.01.2019
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Bangkirai producers were willing to grant concessions on prices at end of last year
- South America: Significant price increase for decking
- Prices for meranti generally unchanged
- Aapeli storm caused only minor damage in Finland
- Threat of bark-beetle calamity looming over Sweden this year
- Zielona Gora: Oak prices only slightly higher than last year
- Finland’s forest industries’ log intake up by 23 % in 2018
- 500,000 m³ of damaged wood caused by Alfrida in Sweden
- Higher oak prices in Brzesko and Wroclaw
- Prices for LAS pine currently holding steady at level reached at end of 2018
- Centre of competence for forestry and timber now open
- Softwood-timber buyers exercising restraint in purchasing in anticipation of falling prices
- 16% decline in beech roundwood exports
Wood products
- Prices for visible-grade gluelam timber largely stable in the light of high prices for lamellas
- Worldwide pellet trade up by an estimated 26 % in 2018
- Growth in number of ENplus-pellet producers
- US pellet production in 2018 20 % higher than in 2017
Wood-based panels
- Further rise again in British particleboard and OSB imports
- Double-digit increase in birch plywood exports
- Further big increase in British hardwood plywood imports
- No movement in prices for poplar plywood made in Europe of late
- Chile: Plywood exports up by one quarter
- Particleboard prices have not dropped as much as expected in first quarter of 2019
- Methanex and SCC lower North American prices
- Methanol contract price slashed by 18.2%
Construction
People
Companies
- Broadview Holding set to acquire Formica after buying Trespa, Arpa and Westag
- Werner GmbH of Trier must file for insolvency again
- Metsä sends first full trainload of softwood timber to China
- BSW Timber’s result restored to positive zone
- Holzco bankrupt as major order falls through
- Ipe Woods USA takes over competing Internet platform
- MM-Holz investing in extending picking section in Wismar
- Vanachai’s sales revenue still heading downhill
- Pavatex set to cease manufacturing in Cham
- Roseburg planning to acquire MDF mill in El Dorado
- Ten CPS+ presses put into operation by Dieffenbacher
- Pfleiderer’s Baruth MDF/HDF works still standing after fire
- Egger: Write-off in Argentina makes dent into earnings
- Search continues for investors for insolvent HDM
