The IMAL-PAL Group has always focussed its R&D activities on designing equipment and systems that can offer a noteworthy contribution to cutting panel production costs, one of the top priorities for panel manufacturers today.Continue Reading....
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The IMAL-PAL Group has always focussed its R&D activities on designing equipment and systems that can offer a noteworthy contribution to cutting panel production costs, one of the top priorities for panel manufacturers today.
More than 1.200 international and Chinese top and emerging exhibitors from about 35 countries will be exhibiting all types of floor covering solutions and launching the latest products to the market in the 140.000sqm gross space reserved for DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR 2014 at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre from March 25 to 27, 2014.
The Campbell Group, a full-service timberland investment firm, has changed its name to Campbell Global.
Setra appoints Patrik Larsson as the new manager of Vimmerby sawmill in Sweden. He will take up his new position on 24 March when the present manager Björn Ståhlberg retires.
Nordson Corporation opens a new 2,000 square meter (21,500 square foot) technical center in Shanghai which will provide enhanced engineering, testing, training, service and application expertise to the Nordson’s large and growing customer base throughout China and the greater Asian region.
Pfleiderer reported consolidated sales in 2013 of Euro 928.3 million were 2.7% below the previous year’s value of Euro 954.1 million. This means the group has managed to maintain its position in what was once again a difficult market environment.
UPM is investing €160m in expansion of capacity by 170,000t to a future 700,000t of bleached softwood and birch pulp at the pulp plant in Kymi, south east Finland. The expansion is to be implemented in the short term with the installation of a new pulp drying facility,
The trend started back in August 2013 when British plywood imports were experiencing an upsurge which continued till the end of the year thereby compensating for the earlier declines experienced in the first few months of 2013.
There is another “excellent returnee” to Xylexpo, the biennial international exhibition of wood technology and furniture industry supplies, to be held at the Fiera Milano-Rho expo center from 13 to 17 May 2014.
Sales of new home, single-family homes rose 9.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 468,000 units in January from an upwardly revised pace of 427,000 units in the previous month,
The much talked about Renewable Heat NY program is funding as much as 18 projects to help install high-efficiency, low-emission wood-fired heating equipment.