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As the EPLF European Producers of Laminate Flooring Association (Bielefeld/Germany) was informed by members, the General Directorate for Imports of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Turkey initiated an anti-dumping investigation procedure following a publication of the Turkish “Official Gazette” on December 18, 2013... [more...]
Norske Skog has separately entered into new long-term supply agreements for newsprint and improved grade paper with the Australian media groups News Limited and Fairfax Media Limited. Both these customers had existing supply agreements with Norske Skog that were due to expire in June 2015 that have been replaced by new agreements that run until the middle of 2020... [more...]
After a number of months of intensive and comprehensive work mapping out Södra’s way forward, the company’s Board has now made a formal decision on a new group strategy; a collective way forward which will allow employees and owners together to face new challenges together and make the most of the opportunities offered by our changing world... [more...]
Fluctuating freight rates have contributed to very volatile CIF prices for Chinese plywood delivered into Europe. For example, freight rates on the Shanghai-Rotterdam route fell from US$2,800/40ft container in early September to as low as US$1300/40ft container by the end of October – a decline equivalent to about US$30 per cu.m of delivered plywood... [more...]
Total starts in October were 90,226 units, 7.1% more than October last year. This is the first monthly starts over 90,000 units since October 2008 and the starts have been increasing for 14 consecutive months. Seasonally adjusted annual starts were 1,037,000 units, 0.7% less than September... [more...]
The Indonesia Ministry of Forestry (MoF) Director of Processing and Marketing of Forest Products, Dwi Sudharto, said that wood product exports in the first 10 months of this year are about 10% higher than in the same period last year. The value of wood product exports from January to October 2012 was US$4.2 bil. while in the first ten months of 2013 the total was US$4.7 bil... [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...]
Expectations that orders for okoume plywood manufactured in Gabon might pick up in the second half of 2013 in advance of the rise in import duties from 1 January 2014 have not been realised. Demand for okoume plywood in Europe remains very weak with slow buying in both the French and Dutch construction sector... [more...]
Brazilian pulp and paper export revenues totaled $6.50 billion by November 2013, i.e., 8.2% higher than the accumulated result in the same period in 2012. As product imports registered a drop of 5%, the sector’s trade balance was $4.78 billion, 13.9% higher than in the same months last year... [more...]
In 2012, global sawnwood production totalled 413 million m³, representing an increase of 3.8% compared to 2011 (398 million m³) and an increase of 5.5% over the fi gure for 2008 (391 million m³). Sawnwood production declined a lot in 2009, but has been recovering gradually over the period 2010-12. This trend is largely due to changes in production in three regions: Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific... [more...]