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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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]