Search

News (59)

Sorting

Selling prices for oak gluelam boards reduced by producers

09 August 2023

|

Published in issue 32/2023

Eastern and southeastern European manufacturers increasingly offered oak gluelam boards with significant concessions on prices in June and July 2023. This considerably amplified the surplus supply that had already been evident at...

Timber merchants buying gluelam board with caution

04 May 2023

|

Published in issue 18/2023

The outflow of gluelam-board stocks from the majority of central European timber wholesalers was inadequate until the end of April 2023. Although a number of sales markets of importance for gluelam boards, such as...

Slower sales of gluelam boards in Germany

Increased interruptions in production at Ukrainian works

03 November 2022

|

Published in issue 44/2022

Contrary to the announcement of raising selling prices for gluelam boards in October 2022 and then again at the turn of the year 2022/2023, many manufacturers have now rolled over their prices after all. This applies for oak as...

Recent slight recovery in gluelam-board supply

Manufacturers to pass on increasing energy costs from autumn onwards

17 August 2022

|

Published in issue 33/2022

Restrictions in the supply of hardwood gluelam panels faced by many manufacturers since 2021 have improved slightly during the course of the summer so far. In the case of beech and oak panels, manufacturers do not necessarily have...

Gluelam panel supply shortages continue

Some Ukrainian plants resume operations, albeit with curtailed production

25 May 2022

|

Published in issue 21/2022

In April and May 2022, below-average availability of hardwood gluelam panels has persisted for producers as well as for importers and timber trading companies. In many cases, there are shortages of oak and beech gluelam panels...

Frequent increases in hardwood gluelam-board prices

23 February 2022

|

Published in issue 8/2022

The increases observed in prices for hardwood gluelam boards in the fourth quarter of 2021 and often implemented at ever shorter intervals have continued in the current year. In mid-February, manufacturers of oak gluelam boards...

Selling prices raised by gluelam board manufacturers

10 August 2021

Manufacturers of oak gluelam boards in southeast Europe, Italy, Ukraine, and Belarus have raised their prices once or in some cases even twice in the last three months. The increases of around 5% in April and May were followed by...

Selling prices raised by gluelam board manufacturers

Growing demand obstructed by wholesalers’ low stocks and reduced output

04 August 2021

|

Published in issue 31/2021

Manufacturers of oak gluelam boards in southeast Europe, Italy, Ukraine, and Belarus have raised their prices once or in some cases even twice in the last three months. The increases of around 5% in April and May were followed by...

Federal Cartel Office approves Häussermann takeover

09 July 2021

The Federal Cartel Office in Bonn issued approval on 16 June for Auctus Capital Partners’s acquisition of a stake in Häussermann group. The examination required under competition law was filed for by Auctus and Häussermann on 20...

Insulation board and OSB output bucked the overall trend

24 June 2021

A slump in European wood-based panel production that was recorded in 2019 after six years of growth continued at a similar pace in 2020. Total output had last increased in 2018, climbing by 1.5% to 60.319m m³. The European Panel...

More on

You can only use this function with a valid subscription and registration. Registered subscribers can access all functions after entering their user name and password.