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20.03.2019
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- US sawn softwood imports down by 11 % in Q4 2018
- 58.1m t of wood damaged by hurricane “Michael” in Florida
- Beetle-damaged wood in Czech Republic estimated at 30m m³
- Finland: 10-12% increase in softwood sawlog prices
- Poland: softwood sawlog prices start to rise again
- 15% increase in Russian exports to China
- British lumber imports increased by 10%
- Beech sawlog exporters’ interest in extra volumes low
- First deliveries under new industrial-wood contracts
- Extensive damage left in wake of storm “Eberhard”
Wood products
- Mjøstårnet timber tower block officially opened on 1 March
- EPAL pallet production increased by another 5.2 %
- Slacker demand registered on German pellet market
- Perceptible reduction in prices for standard pallets
- Wood industry develops better than furniture industry
- Timber-construction revenues increased in December too
Wood-based panels
- Elliotis pine plywood ordering so far failing to live up to expectations
- Elliotis pine plywood exports rising after a slow start
- Duty-free plywood quota may be filled in first half of April
- China was the biggest export market for OSB in Q4
Furniture
- German furniture exports reach a total of €10.9bn
- Kitchen furniture exports up by 5.5%
- Kitchen furniture industry turnover up 6.3% in 2018
Construction
People
Companies
- US group Masco seeking a buyer for kitchen furniture, window and door operations
- Wood-Mizer enlarging works for bandsaws in Indiana
- New Komatsu Forest dealers in Lithuania and Kaliningrad
- Khanty-Mansiysk: government intends to sell Ugra Timber
- Swedish Gösta Hedlund has been taken over by ARAT
- Suspicion of arson substantiated at I.B.H.
- Schweighofer awards contract for biomass-fired CHP plant
- Brüninghoff: key supplier for HAUT wooden high-rise
- Angara Plus commences production of Mabashira
- Splitkon puts CLT works in Åmot into operation
- Sales alliance agreed between Brunner and Haworth
- Bulthaup group’s sales revenue up again in 2017
- Cairngorm Capital takes over door manufacturer
- Nobia’s results impaired by restructuring measures
- AFI: high net loss due to sale of wooden flooring division
- Further improvement in Arbonia profits situation
- Forbo: significant increase in turnover and results in 2018
- Biesse’s sales revenue up by 7 % to 740m € in 2018
- Norbord orders OSB dryer for Inverness from Büttner
- Trex delivers double-digit rise in sales and earnings
- Baumer forges partnership with EWS in North America
- Volume of CMPC’s plywood sales up 22 % in 2018
- Pro-MDF almost triples export revenues in the US
- Arauco’s wood-based panel sales increased by 11 %
- Boise Cascade’s result impaired by disinvestments
- CHH exiting the particleboard manufacturing business
- Moncure plywood works taken over by Southern Veneer
