Pagnoni installing HPL plant in Uzbekistan

As expected, the Fifth Package of Sanctions that the Council of the European Union adopted against Russia on 8 April has had an impact on investment activity within the Russian wood-based panel industry, as well. Exports of machinery and plants to make wood-based panels, which had already been hampered by stricter dual...

At the beginning of July 2022, the plant and machine manufacturer US Natural Resources Inc. (USNR) of Woodland, Washington, took over the sawmilling and log-yard equipment supplier Timber Automation LLC of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The seller was the private-equity company Blue Sage Capital of Austin, Texas, which had...

The Austrian sawmill outfitter Springer-Gruppe of Friesach, Carinthia, reported on 28 July 2022 that it has acquired 90% of the shares in GIS Industrieautomation GmbH of Herzogsdorf, Austria, from the former shareholders Kurt Guttenbrunner and Hannes Wagner. GIS Industrieautomation is specialised in planning,...