Retail companies and their partners came to their leading global event, EuroShop to Düsseldorf with optimism. Retailers’ currently high propensity to invest gave rise to justified hopes for a positive outcome of the trade fair.Continue Reading....
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Monday 24 February 2014
EuroShop 2014 exceeds Optimistic Expectations
Retail companies and their partners came to their leading global event, EuroShop to Düsseldorf with optimism. Retailers’ currently high propensity to invest gave rise to justified hopes for a positive outcome of the trade fair.Continue Reading....
Jowat to showcase 2-component Adhesives at Holz-Handwerk
Jowat AG is attending the Holz-Handwerk in Nuremberg with acomprehensive range of products for the small and medium-sized wood
industry.
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INDIAWOOD opens with a bang
The eighth edition of INDIAWOOD 2014 has witnessed a successful opening today at Bangalore, India. Once again this event is has attracted around 600 exhibitors from more than 40 countries (India and abroad) and approximately expects to be attended by 40,000 visitors from all over the world.Continue Reading....
Friday 21 February 2014
Fourth Siempelkamp plant for Berneck, Brazil
For its Curitibanos location in the Brazilian State of Paraná, the wood-based panel manufacturer Berneck S.A. Paineis Serrados ordered a Siempelkamp particleboard line including a 9′ x 38.7 m ContiRoll press. Continue Reading....
Cold Weather Drives Housing Starts Down in January
Due largely to unusually severe weather, across much of the nation, housing starts fell 16 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 880,000 units in January, according to newly released figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.Continue Reading....
Increased Production and Hiring at Södra’s Sawmills in Traryd
With significant increase in the production volume Södra Timber has decided to hire employees for their sawmills in Traryd. “The market has shifted and the order books are full. Continue Reading...
Thursday 20 February 2014
Stora Enso Plans to Invest in Murow Sawmill
Stora Enso plans to invest Euro 28 million in modernising and developing Murow sawmill in Poland to increase its capacity and improve its competitiveness.Continue Reading...
Stora Enso Shuts Down Sollenau Sawmill
Stora Enso plans permanent closure of Sollenau sawmill in Austria. The planned closure of Sollenau sawmill will affect up to 125 employees and generate annual savings of up to Euro 7 million from the 2Q 2014 onwards.Continue Reading....
Vapo Oy Makes Change in Top Management
Suvi Kupiainen has been appointed as CFO and member of Vapo Oy by the management team, a move which will be effective from April 1 2014. At that time, Vapo Oy’s current CFO Jyrki Vainionpää will assume a new post as the Chief Operating Officer.Roseburg Forest Products Appoints Dave Lowry
Roseburg Forest Products appointed Dave Lowry as plant manager for Roseburg’s Engineered Wood Products facility in Riddle, Oregon.Wednesday 19 February 2014
Roseburg Forest Products Appoints Dave Lowry
Roseburg Forest Products appointed Dave Lowry as plant manager for Roseburg’s Engineered Wood Products facility in Riddle, Oregon.Continue Reading...
Weyerhaeuser Appoints New Human Resource Head
Weyerhaeuser appoints Denise Merle as senior vice president, Human Resources, effective February 28, 2014. Denise fills the position left by John Hooper, who is leaving the company to join StanCorp Financial Group.Continue Reading....
SCM Group Vows to Excel at Holz-Handwerk 2014
SCM Group has – once again – put into preparing for the Holz-Handwerk show, a busy meeting place for carpenters and trade operators in an event which continues to grow in importance on both a local and international scale.Continue Reading...
America Gets a Glimpse of Resysta-based Wood Products
Westech Building Products launched their resysta-based TruGrain at Builders Show 2014. TruGrain, a bio-based wood substitute based on Resysta, a polymeric board product containing rice husks, mineral oil and salt.Continue Reading...
Poor Weather Puts a Damper on Builder Confidence in February
Unusually severe weather conditions across much of the nation along with continued concerns over the cost and availability of labor and lots resulted in builder confidence in the market for newly-built, Continue Reading...
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Södra Enters in a Contract with Lagan Construction
Lagan Construction will have complete responsibility for the construction of the logistics center for Södra which will be located at Strömsnäsbruk, next to the E4. The property will contain storage areas and offices and have an area of approximately 29 000 square meters.International Decorative Surfaces Installs New Head Quarter
Premier surface materials specialist International Decorative Surfaces (IDS) has decided to move its head office and regional distribution branch to a purpose-built site near its former premises at Stoke.Exhibitors Endorse the Joint Model of ‘See You in Valencia’
Feria Valencia live the last hours of Cevisama, Feria Habitat Valencia, Fimma and Maderalia, the four exhibitions that were held this week together under the ‘See You in Valencia 2014′ initiative and have exceeded expectations with a high level of business, a strong international component and a prominent influx of buyers.Continue Reading....
Raute Set to Deliver Machinery at Latvijas Finieris’ mills
Raute and Latvijas Finieris have concluded sales contracts worth about Euro 8.5 million in total. The orders comprise of new machinery and lines as well as modernizations of existing lines at Latvijas Finieris’ different mills in Latvia and Lithuania.Continue Reading....
Monday 17 February 2014
INDIAWOOD 2014: All Geared-Up for a Start
With less than a week left for the start INDIAWOOD 2014 promises a lot with confirmed participation of about 600 exhibitors all across the globe. The eighth edition of the largest woodworking event of India will start from February 20 and is at Bangalore, India and it is expecting a footfall of about 40,000 visitors from all over the world. Continue Reading...
UPM Abandons Biomass Business Field
Established on October 2012 the biomass business division of UPM will be closed, a move by the management to be effective from March 31. Some of the 20 employees who are associated with the division will get affected by this decision and consequently received dismissal notices which end their employment on June 30.Continue Reading....
Södra Timber Aims High Productivity
Södra Timber plans on increasing production with an aim to return to profitability.
The Swedish sawmiller posted annual operating losses of SKr217m (2012: SKr469m loss), an improvement due mainly to increased volumes, a better sawing yield and reduced costs. Output in 2013 totalled 1.62 million m3 (2012: 1.45 million m3).
West Fraser Blames Reduced Lumber Shipments
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. Thursday reported earnings of CA$ 118 million on sales of CA$ 833 million in the fourth quarter of 2013 and earnings of $ 349 million on sales of CA$ 3,474 million for 2013.Continue Reading....
Holmen Appoints New President
Magnus Hall will resign from his position as President and CEO of Holmen Group. The Board has appointed Henrik Sjölund, currently CEO of the business area Holmen Paper, to be his successor. Continue Reading...
Accoya Plant Achieves Positive EBITDA
Accsys reports that the Accoya production plant in Arnhem, which is owned by the British company Accsys Technologies, again showed a positive EBITDA in the third quarter of the 2013/2014 financial year (31 March),Continue Reading....
Swedish Forest Agency Reports Increase in Felling Area
Swedish Forest Agency notified final felling areas in Sweden in 2013 amounted to 238, 990 hectares, which is an increase by 13%, or 28,000 hectares compared to the year 2012.Continue Reading....
Saturday 15 February 2014
Accoya Plant Achieves Positive EBITDA
Accsys reports that the Accoya production plant in Arnhem, which is owned by the British company Accsys Technologies, again showed a positive EBITDA in the third quarter of the 2013/2014 financial year (31 March), Continue Reading...
Swedish Forest Agency Reports Increase in Felling Area
Swedish Forest Agency notified final felling areas in Sweden in 2013 amounted to 238, 990 hectares, which is an increase by 13%, or 28,000 hectares compared to the year 2012. Continue Reading....
Holmen Appoints New President
Magnus Hall will resign from his position as President and CEO of Holmen Group. The Board has appointed Henrik Sjölund, currently CEO of the business area Holmen Paper, to be his successor. Continue Reading....
MJM Marine Acquires Mivan
Joinery giants Mivan has been sold by the administrators to a competitor in the form of MJM Marine.Continue Reading...
Thursday 13 February 2014
NAHB Urges OSHA to Withdraw Silica Rule
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) on Tuesday requested that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdraw a proposed rule that would drastically lower the permissible exposure limit (PEL) of crystalline silica for the construction industry.continue Reading...
Timber Trade Accepts Labour Housing Policy
The timber trade has joined the housebuilders and other construction sector bodies, a decision taken in a meeting o feed into the Labour Party’s policy-making process on housing.PEFC Netherlands Joins Hands with the Dutch National Tree Foundation
The Dutch National Tree Foundation (Stichting Nationale Boomfeestdag) and PEFC Netherlands announce their collaboration in the promotion of sustainable forest management, bringing the importance of treesContinue Reading...
Taylor Wimpey Closes Lumber Division
For reasons which are yet to be disclosed by the company, Taylor Wimpey, the British building group, recently announced the closure of its timber frame subsidiary Prestoplan at a staff meeting on January 22. Continue Reading...
Timber Trade Accepts Labour Housing Policy
The timber trade has joined the housebuilders and other construction sector bodies, a decision taken in a meeting o feed into the Labour Party’s policy-making process on housing.Continue Reading....
Common Distribution Team for Surteco and Süddekor
Süddekor LLC, the premier décor printers and impregnators, said that it has been acquired by the Surteco Group of Germany. Süddekor LLC is a subsidiary of the international 2D-Group based in Laichingen, Germany, with two locations in Agawam and East Longmeadow, Massachusetts.Continue Reading...
Tuesday 11 February 2014
Deutsche Messe RUS and Krasnoyarsk Fair Exhibition Company are partners for ExpoDrev
Deutsche Messe’s Russian subsidiary, OOO Deutsche Messe RUS, and Krasnoyarsk Fair Exhibition Company (KFEC) have signed a partnership agreement that will see them co-organize the ExpoDrev Russia trade fair for Siberia’s forest,Continue Reading....
Sabah Timber Following a Downward Trend
Various conservational activities have recently hampered the trade activities of Sabah timber and this trend is likely to be continued for the upcoming 20 years. According to Sabah Forestry Department (SFD) the continuous declining trend of declining log supply from the natural forest will also be reflected in the total timber export contribution to the state and national economies.Continue Reading...
Interfor Plans to Buy Georgia Lumber Mills
International Forest Products Ltd. (IFP/A) has agreed on a deal to purchase two Georgia sawmills for an approximate price of $180 million from Ilim Timber Continental SA to expand in the U.S. Southeast.Continue Reading...
Fiskeby Closes Operations in Denmark
Fiskeby has announced its decision of closing the sales office in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the first of February.
The sale, which was previously handled by Denmark office, will continue to be conducted by other sales offices.
Saturday 1 February 2014
Fimma-Maderalia Focuses on Outdoor Furnishing
When little time remains before the doors open, from the 11th to the 14th of February at Feria Valencia, Fimma-Maderalia exhibitions are prepared to become one of the largest showcases of the supply during these four days where suppliers from the furniture and wood industry meet.Continue Reading....
PEFC Finland Elects New Chairman
PEFC Finland elects new Chairman, Jan-Erik Enestam. Mr. Enestam was the Secretary General of the Nordic Council from 2007 and 2013, and has also held several ministerial posts in the government. Elected during the PEFC Finland autumn meeting in December last year, his term of office began at the start of 2014.Continue Reading....
Decrease in Canadian Lumber Production
According to the report published by Statistics Canada, lumber production by sawmills in Canada decreased 9.3% from October to 4 874.4 thousand cubic metres in November. Compared with November 2012, lumber production decreased 0.5%Continue Reading....
Weyerhaeuser Reports Improved Net Earnings
Company reported full year 2013 net earnings of $540 million, or 95 cents per diluted share, on net sales of $8.5 billion. This compares with net earnings of $385 million, or 71 cents per diluted share, on net sales of $7.1 billion for the full year 2012.Continue Reading.....
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