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- Andritz to deliver flash drying line to Stora Enso Imatra Mills in FinlandAndritz has received an order from Stora Enso Imatra Mills to supply a new flash drying line, including an Andritz Twin Wire Press, fluffer, and flash dryer. Start-up of the new plant, which has a production capacity of 400 admt/d, is scheduled for the 1Q 2019.Andritz’s well-proven flash drying tech
- Raute receives order from UPM Plywood in Chudovo, RussiaRaute Corporation has received orders worth over Euro 21 million for the machinery and equipment for the expansion of UPM Plywood’s mill in Chudovo, Russia.The scope of delivery includes the main machinery and equipment of the plywood manufacturing process: veneer peeling, drying, composing and patc
- Japanese plywood market heads towards stabilityJapan’s plywood sector has a tumultuous history marked by price fluctuations and trade imbalance. Also, the price-sensitive commodity faces competition from imports, which used to account for over half of the market share.Many of the competition comes from South Sea hardwood and Russian larch logs.
- Slowing EU imports of hardwood plywood from ChinaAfter rising strongly in 2016, EU imports of hardwood plywood have been slowing this year. The decline in imports has been concentrated in mixed hardwood products from China. Imports of tropical hardwood plywood, both directly from tropics and from China, have been rising this year.EU imports of har
- Furniture production increases in Southern BrazilRio Grande do Sul and Paraná states are two prominent furniture centres in Brazil and according to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), furniture production in Rio Grande do Sul state in August expanded just over 10%.In the Paraná state the equivalent growth was almost 5%. Year on
- South Africa: Domestic mills face prospect of starting New Year with high stocksAnalysts report that there is little activity in the building sector and that most of the current work is on finishing existing contracts before the builders holidays which starts on the 16 December.On the domestic front the pine market is said to be steady but the usual year end activity has not ma
- Norway to build world’s tallest timber buildingThe world's tallest timber building is to be built in Norway. Mjøstårnet will be more than 80 metres tall and stand 30 metres higher than what is today considered the world’s tallest timber building. “Mjøstårnet sets new standards for timber constructions. The building is the closest we come to a sk
- The global forest industry in Q3/2017 from FordaqThe strong softwood fiber global prices, led by the US dollar weakening and the growing demand from China have risen the Global Sawlog Price Index to U$75.69/m3 in Q3/2017. Global Timber MarketSawlog prices were up in most regions of the world in the 3Q/17. The price increases from the 2Q/17 were ge
- Building with Wood Conference; 21.11.2017Multiple issues related to wood Construction were debated at the European Economic and Social Committee during the conference Building with Wood that took place on the 21 of November 2017. The conference, co-organized by CEI-Bois (European Confederation of Woodworking Industries), FIEC (European Con
- Vietnam wood industry sees bright future as orders increaseChina’s policy on focusing on their domestic market has prompted foreign importers to place more orders with Vietnamese enterprises. The prosperity of the wood processing industry in the last year has been robust. According to VietnamNet Vietnam hopes it can obtain turnover of $8 billion from wooden