21.05.2018 − British Cairngorm Capital Partners took over the timber trading company North Yorkshire Timber (NYTimber) on 15 February. » more

18.05.2018 − German Wilhelm Altendorf completed its purchase of the affiliates Hebrock and EBM on 25 April, thus adding edgebanding machines to its portfolio. The deal was struck during the first quarter. » more

14.05.2018 − Finnish Raute landed orders with a total value of €68m during the first quarter.» more

14.05.2018 − Danzer booked revenues of €210m in 2017, an upswing of 6.5%. The company has reported revenues for entities in Europe and North America alone for the first time. » more

10.05.2018 − Xella International completed the sale of its Fermacell business unit to Irish James Hardie Industries that is listed on the Australian stock exchange, on 3 April. » more

09.05.2018 − Dutch Akzo Nobel ended the first quarter with an 8% slide in revenues from continuing activities to €2.176bn. » more

07.05.2018 − Austrian Mayr-Melnhof Holz raised the sales revenue generated in its business year 2017 by 4.1 % above the year before to 553.9m €. » more

03.05.2018 − Homag Group wants to open its own engineering office in Poznan, Poland. Work to build the office, which will do business as Homag Engineering Poland, started in the first quarter of 2018. » more

02.05.2018 − By the beginning of April, exhibitors had already placed firm bookings for 85 % of the exhibition space at Fitecma taking place for the fourteenth time in Buenos Aires from 2 to 6 July 2019.» more

30.04.2018 − Canadian Western Coast Enterprise (WCE) acquired 75 % of the shares in German-Timber-Company GmbH (GTC) from Schuster-Holz-Team, on 30 March. » more

27.04.2018 − Russian Sistema wants to execute the long-planned initial public offering (IPO) for the Segezha Group during the course of 2020. » more

27.04.2018 − US Natural Resources (USNR) will only be appearing on the market under the name of „USNR” in future. » more

20.04.2018 − At the cabinet meeting held on 5 April, Estonia’s government decided that Est-For should press ahead with its plans for building a pulp mill that were first presented at the beginning of 2017. » more

18.04.2018 − Homag China Golden Field - a joint venture that was founded in 2000 – boosted its revenues by nearly 63% in the 2017 financial year.» more

13.04.2018 − At an investor presentation on 2 March, Mondi Group gave more concrete shape to its plans for the Czech pulp mill in Šteti and the Slovakian mill in Ružomberok. » more

10.04.2018 − The adjusted EBITDA of the “Plywood and Wood Boards” division of the Russian Segezha Group in 2017 was 72.4% higher than a year earlier at 1.8bn RUB. » more

09.04.2018 − Chilean Celulosa Arauco y Constitutión sold 7.4% more wood-based panels in the fourth quarter of 2017 than in the prior-year period with a total of 1.216m m³. » more

09.04.2018 − German Hecht & Kloth took over the CEKO product programme and one of the two planing lines, the tools, stocks, patents, and registered designs of Grimmeisen Holzland on 1 November 2017.» more

06.04.2018 − Brazilian Fibria Celulose and Suzano Papel e Celulose are to be merged into a single company by means of a share swap. » more

31.03.2018 − In December 2017 approvals for construction of 34,470 dwellings were granted in Germany. » more

29.03.2018 − Akzo Nobel wrapped up its take-over of Thai V.Powdertech before the end of the fourth quarter after reaching a deal on 27 November 2017. » more

28.03.2018 − German Zellstoff Stendal (ZS), part of Mercer International produced a total of 679,152 t of pulp in its business year 2017, which equates to an increase of around 4.7% against last year. » more

22.03.2018 − Order intake in German housing construction increased nominally by 39.8% to €1.616bn in December 2017 vis à vis the comparative month of the preceding year. » more

21.03.2018 − The Giardina Group – which was created at the end of 2017 when Italian Mauri Macchine and Giardina Finishing merged – intends to boost its revenues to about €20m in the current financial year. » more

20.03.2018 − After the regressive development in 2016, sales revenue generated by the German paper industry increased again last year. » more

19.03.2018 − On 12 March, the commercial court in Poitiers, France, approved the creditor-protection proceedings filed for by French Rougier. » more

15.03.2018 − There have meanwhile been at least ten transactions since 2015 in which Austrian companies in the sawmilling and gluelam timber industry have played a role as investors. » more

15.03.2018 − Austrian Springer group has acquired a 90% stake in Finnish FinScan. The remaining 10% of the shares remain in the hands of the company’s founder. » more

13.03.2018 − In the twelve months up to and including January, US housing starts, adjusted to account for seasonal influences, increased by 9.7% vis à vis the preceding month to a total of 1.326m units. » more

06.03.2018 − As the organisers of Domotex Asia/Chinafloor, Hannover Milano Fairs Shanghai and VNU Exhibitions Asia are anticipating other increase in the number of exhibitors and visitors this year.» more