Belgian Foresco Group acquires Lapack

An output of pallets already reduced since the middle of the fourth quarter of 2022 is also coinciding with rather slack demand for euro and chemical pallets at the beginning of 2023. Manufacturers are describing receipts of orders in the first few weeks as lower than average. The reach of orders has tended to decline....

At the beginning of this year, the “Solid wood for pallets” index rose again slightly for the first time since May 2022 whereas the “Solid wood for packaging” index fell again in January 2023. Owing to the price hikes announced and largely pushed through by sawnwood suppliers for side-cuts and packaging products as...

At a total of 29.570m units (July-Oct. 2021: 32.137m units), Germany’s output of pallets, box pallets, and pallet collars made of wood in the third quarter of 2022 turned out to be 8.0% lower than a year earlier. Provisional figures from the federal statistics office (Destatis) in Wiesbaden show that the number of...