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UPM-Kymmene: Capacity in Otepää almost to double

07 May 2015

Finnish UPM-Kymmene is poised to make a significant increase in manufacturing capacity at its Estonian birch plywood mill in Otepää by the middle of 2016 with the installation of another veneer and plywood line. Capacity is set to...

Norbord completes projects in Joanna and Cowie

05 November 2014

During the course of the third quarter of 2014, the company Norbord Inc. completed two larger investment projects at its OSB plant in Joanna and at its British particleboard plant in Cowie. In Joanna, the frontend was modernised...

UK demand for particleboard has increased across all principal market sectors

Particleboard prices have climbed 10%-12% over the last twelve months

05 November 2014

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Published in issue 45/2014

The UK particleboard sector has looked increasingly robust from the last quarter of 2013, through 2014. Rising demand is reported across all categories, from P1 and P2 rawboard, to P3 moisture resistant, P5/T&G flooring grade and...

European Panels Federation: Correia replaces Pinto

Organisational structure includes working groups and task forces

23 July 2014

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Published in issue 30/2014

Ten of the twelve members on the European Panel Federation’s managing board were re-elected at its general assembly held in Bruges, Belgium on 19 June 2014. Rui Manuel Gonçalves Correia, the CEO of Sonae Industria SGPS S.A., based...

Processors of wood waste well supplied in first quarter

28 May 2014

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Published in issue 22/2014

While recent years have often seen supply bottlenecks on Central European wood-waste markets over the winter months, biomass power plants and the wood-based-panels industry have survived the first quarter in relatively good shape...

Frequency and scale of damage caused by fires continued to fall over the past few years

Total losses still a repeated occurrence in the wood-based panels industry

21 August 2013

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Published in issue 34/2013

The blaze at a particleboard mill run by Krono-Gruppe Schweiz’s subsidiary Depalor S.A.S., based in Phalsbourg, France, will likely be one of the largest losses of its kind for the European wood-based panels industry. The fire,...

Variations in German waste wood supply

14 August 2013

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Published in issue 33/2013

German waste wood markets continue to experience sizeable variations in supply. Waste wood arisings have continued to climb in south-western Germany, meaning that processors based in this region are able to start setting up winter...

UK using more waste wood than biomass

Wood-based panels industry used 5 % less waste wood in 2012

14 August 2013

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Published in issue 33/2013

Some 2.261m (2011: 2.148m) tonnes of waste wood were sold in the UK last year, according to annual statistics released by the British Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA), based in Palestine, Hampshire, on 10 May 2013. This amount...

CPA to tackle the issue of formaldehyde in San Diego

13 March 2013

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Published in issue 11/2013

Registration is now under way for the spring meeting of the Composite Panels Association (CPA), based in Leesburg, Virginia, which will take place from 5 to 7 May 2013 in San Diego, California. The event, which is only open to CPA...

VHI has had EPD for particleboard developed

27 June 2012

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Published in issue 26/2012

The German Federation of the Wood-Based Panels Industry (VHI), based in Gießen, commissioned the Institute for Construction and Environment (IBU), headquartered in the German town of Königswinter, to develop an environmental...

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