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WBP industry reports even scarcer supply of wood

01 June 2022

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Published in issue 22/2022

The Association of the German Wood-Based Panel Industry (VHI), based in Berlin, fears that timber supply will become even more limited in the coming months. The availability of almost all types of industrial wood, sawmilling...

Swiss Krono poised to invest around €300m

04 January 2022

Swiss Krono Group intends to keep up its high pace of expansion in the 2021/2022 financial year (ending 30 September) after turning in a solid performance in 2020/2021, which ended with a 24% increase in net revenues and much...

Egger is in a better financing position to fund new investments once more

Investments set to swell by around 50% in the current financial year

11 August 2021

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Published in issue 32/2021

Egger Group, based in St. Johann, Austria, scaled back its investment activity markedly in the 2020/2021 financial year (ended 30 April), as announced. This move came after the company undertook several major projects and made...

Vanachai plans first OSB deliveries by mid-year

Intention to enter the field of electricity generation from biomass

21 April 2021

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Published in issue 16/2021

Thai Vanachai Group Public Company Ltd. (Bangkok) has not yet launched commercial production at the OSB plant established in Surat Thani. The continuous forming and press line, supplied by Siempelkamp (Qingdao) Machinery Co. Ltd....

Kronospan Sanem intends to become CO2 neutral plant

08 July 2020

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Published in issue 28/2020

The Kronospan Group will install a photovoltaic system with a total area of approximately 30,000m² on the building roofs of the MDF/HDF and OSB (oriented strand board) plant in Sanem, Luxembourg - which operates under the name...

Mohawk and Unilin to stop making parquet at Magnum Parket at end of February

Production will be curbed in other areas to reflect weaker demand

26 February 2020

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Published in issue 9/2020

Unilin bvba (Wielsbeke, Belgium) - which is part of the US flooring group Mohawk Industries Inc. (Calhoun, Georgia) - is set to shut down parquet production at Magnum Parket a.s. (Vyškov, Czech Republic) by the end of February...

Kronospan set to double its capacity in Chirk

15 January 2020

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Published in issue 3/2020

The Vision 2020 investment programme launched in early October 2017 by the Kronospan Group for its particleboard and MDF mill in Chirk, the UK that does business as Kronospan Ltd. will enter the final stages in the next few...

Only a brief interruption in production at Kronospan

New finishing line at Sanem OSB works scheduled to start up soon

14 August 2019

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Published in issue 33/2019

The fire in the wood yard of the Sanem MDF/HDF and OSB works of Kronospan Luxembourg S.A. led to an only brief interruption in production. According to the company, production was resumed on 2 August 2019. It took two days to put...

Pfleiderer Leutkirch does not need to carry out an EIA

25 April 2019

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Published in issue 17/2019

The Pfleiderer Group subsidiary Pfleiderer Leutkirch GmbH does not have to perform an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as part of its application for a permit under emission protection law to carry out alterations as part of...

EBRD wants to support Kronospan’s OSB project

03 April 2019

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Published in issue 14/2019

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is currently considering granting another loan to the Kronospan group. The project summary document (PSD) was published on 22 March. A decision is to be taken by 25...

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