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  • Special Reports
  • June 30, 2008 17:06

KVH for 240 €/m3; producers are optimistic

Finger jointed squares and beams (KVH) in nsi (non visible applications)-quality for €240/m3 carriage paid. This is the price expected by the members of the German KVH Association (Überwachungsgemeinschaft KVH)...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • June 30, 2008 15:10

China: Prices of main wood commodities in June 2008

This report contains prices of logs, wooden beams, veneer, plywood, solid wood flooring and other items from timber markets in several Chinese regions: Jiashan Kaihua, Shanghai Furen, Guangdong Yuzhu...... [more...]

  • Special Reports
  • June 30, 2008 11:05

Softwood logs – price reductions in Baden-Wuerttemberg

Forest Administrations in Baden- Wuerttemberg consider the new log prices from Klenk for the third quarter as a good compromise. The times are gone when prices of €80/m3+ were seen in the western part of the country (Black Forest)...... [more...]

  • Interior
  • June 30, 2008 10:52

Parquet – Hartwall Capital takes over Karelia-Upofloor

Hartwall Capital Oy Ab and Karelia Finland Oy have agreed beginning of April on the acquisition of all Karelia Upofloor Oy shares owned by the latter. Karelia Finland's ownership was 33.3 percent. After the acquisition Hartwall Capital and its stakeholders own ninetynine percent of the group. They became shareholders of Karelia-Upofloor flooring group already…... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • June 30, 2008 08:48

U.S. softwood and panel markets - Week 26

Demand for framing lumber remained stuck in low gear, but most producers resisted cutting quotes by more than a few dollars. The end of the month and quarter, along with holidays next week in both the U.S. and Canada, led secondaries to lighten their inventories and keep new purchases to a minimum...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • June 27, 2008 16:09

Japan: At 500th anniversary, JLR examines history and prospects for Japanese wood sector

Japan Lumber Reports (JLR) published its 500th edition, which contained a special issue on past events in and prospects for the Japanese wood industry. Since the publication’s inception, there were a number of major events that shaped the wood industry over the last 22 years, a number of which are mentioned below...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • June 27, 2008 15:08

Brazil: Productive Development Policy to boost solidwood and furniture sectors

Portal Moveleiro said a plan of action to boost the solidwood and furniture sectors of Brazil had been developed as part of a Productive Development Policy (PDP). The plan of action was recently presented during the Meeting on Competitiveness of the Timber and Furniture Sector during the last week of May in Brasilia, at the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC)...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • June 27, 2008 14:43

Malaysia: Wood industry exports up nearly 60%

The Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, A. Kohilan Pillay, said wood industry exports in Malaysia during 2007 rose nearly 60% to RM22.65 billion compared with figures from 10 years ago. Bernama reported on the Deputy Minister’s remarks, which were delivered at a Malaysian Timber Industry Board seminar on incentives for wood-based industries...... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • June 27, 2008 08:44

Sawmill crisis: Associations ask for Klausner plants to be shut down

Although the consortium of several German and Austrian banks consider the financially stricken sawmill giant Klausner as able to restructure, the voices of Klausner competitors and sawmill associations are getting louder. Klausner, with its rapid growth starting end of the ‘90s, is blamed at the moment to be the sole reason for the bad economic situation of the whole Central European sawmill branch...... [more...]

  • Wood energy
  • June 27, 2008 07:43

Tembec installed new biomass boiler at Tartas pulp mill in France

James Lopez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tembec, and Yvon Pelletier, Executive Vice President and President of the Pulp Group, are pleased to announce the start-up of a new biomass boiler at the pulp mill in Tartas, France. This Euro 33.8 million investment (C $53 million) will supply 85 tonnes per hour of steam to the pulp mill which produces 155,000 tonnes of specialty cellulose pulp annually. An inauguration ceremony was held in Tartas on June 18, 2008...... [more...]

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