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The German engineering company EWD will present at Ligna one exhibit for each of its technology divisions. The Flying BandSaw (FBS) is a new system to guide the sawblade of a bandsaw. It will bring more life time for the sawblades, a better sawing accuracy and higher feed speeds.... [more...]
The German producer of wood products Varioboard closes its MDF plant in Magdeburg, the company announced in a press release yesterday. End of production is scheduled for May 2nd. The company already signed off their employees. Reasons given by the management are increased production costs for wood, glue and electricity.... [more...]
After all, 10% price increase on some Oak lumber assortments. In consideration of the price increases for oak logs, many sawyers had hoped for a little bit more. Higher prices can be achieved for medium and lower grades, especially for artificially dried furniture qualities that have become scarce.... [more...]
In the markets for unedged lumber assortments, some improvements took place. With the high softwood prices suppliers of Beech pallet boards and squared timber regained competitiveness. Even in sleepers and Beech frames dealings run not so bad. Buyers of higher quality Beech lumber are still rare.... [more...]
In the form of a so-called posting, Pfleiderer AG yesterday sent the preliminary agreements for the Group’s financial restructuring to its creditors. It is planned that the creditors will waive their claim to a part of their financial receivables (excluding the Eastern Europe financing group) equal to 40 percent of the respective utilized credit lines, plus part of the accrued interest and fees.... [more...]
In February, sales of German sawing, planing and impregnating plants amounted to € 314 million, up 41.5% compared to reference month last year. Domestic sales rose disproportionately high by 47.4%, export sales just by 31.2%.... [more...]
Price increases announced by lumber sawmills for the month of March could be enforced. In March, producer prices statistics from the German Federal Statistical Office Destatis shows a price increase for most lumber assortments. In Beech lumber, there is no change, while price movements in China Beech are not covered. There is little change as well in particle board prices since they are influenced by annual contracts.... [more...]
Although, prices for Elliotis plywood have risen in February and Birch plywood suppliers had announced price increases of up to 5% for short packaging assortments, price statistics of the Federal Association of Wooden Packaging, Pallets and Export Packaging HPE shows a reduction in prices for plywood compared to the 4th Quarter of 2010.... [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, Beijing Dongba...... [more...]