Global Trends Review, September 09-15, 2013: bio-CHP industry spreading over...
Fortum company opened a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the Latvian city of Jelgava. The new power plant uses biomass as fuel and will provide district heating to the residents and...
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, November 04-10, 2013: panel capacities return to...
Pollmeier is expected to start up its new beech LVL factory in Germany in February 2014. The launch of sales is scheduled for March, says Holzkurier journal quoting company CEO Ralf Pollmeier. Major...
View ArticleProsecutor General’s office to check validity of Kronospan’s chipboard mill...
The General Prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will check the validity of the chipboard mill construction in Bashkiria being implemented by Austrian company Kronospan....
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, November 25 – December 01, 2013: lumber trade hindered...
At the Timber Market conference, organised by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation, it was reported that global timber market growth is expected in 2014, but protectionism in some markets...
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, December 09-15, 2013: China creates national timber...
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced the establishment of a Timber and Wood Products Spot Trading Platform, ITTO reported. This trading platform will be open...
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, February 24 – March 09, 2014: China boosts investments...
Chinese timber enterprises are rapidly increasing foreign investments. Around $1.3 billion has been already allocated in some 20 countries, mainly for logging and primary processing, but with growing...
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, April 07-20, 2014: raw wood concerns around the world;...
According to the latest Eurostat figures quoted by Fordaq, in 2013 not only the sawmills from Europe made their presence obvious on the Chinese market, but also EU’s softwood log exporters more than...
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, September 22 – October 05, 2014: Romania stands out as...
Holzindustrie Schweighofer has completed installation works at its new glulam line at the Radauti plant in Romania, Holzkurier reported. The capacity will be 100,000 m3, in addition to existing 140,000...
View ArticleGlobal Trends Review, October 06-19, 2014: first CLT production opens in...
The first production of cross-laminated timber (CLT) opened in Finland, launched by Crosslam company, PuuInfo reported. According to Managing Director Juha Virta, this material is beginning to be...
View ArticleWhatWood study: Kronospan launched Russia’s fourth OSB production
Kronospan holding has launched Russia’s fourth OSB mill in in Egorievsk, Moscow region (after Hillman, Novovyatsky LK and DOK Kalevala) with a capacity of 350,000 m3, this is stated in the updated...
View ArticleRussian timber industry news #3-2015
- Sakhles company has put into operation a Japanese automatic sawing line, which will increase the processing of sawlogs to 36 thousand m3. - Arkhangelsk anti-monopoly body approved the purchase of...
View ArticleWhatWood: In 2015, competition intensified in the Russian MDF market; prices...
WhatWood agency has completed the study “The market of solid fibreboard and thin MDF/HDF in Russia in 2014-2015”. According to agency analysts, the output of fibreboard and MDF/HDF in the Russian...
View ArticleWhatWood: Import substitution has changed the OSB market in Russia in 2015
The situation on the Russian OSB market has changed dramatically in the second half of 2014 – 2015, as stated in the third edition of the analytical review “OSB market in Russia” published by WhatWood...
View ArticleRussian timber industry news #9-2016
- The Central Asian and Northern African markets remained difficult in the Q1 2016, as Rusforest mentioned in its quarterly report. However, the company managed to redirect more low-quality product...
View ArticleRussian timber industry news #11-2016
- Kiev cardboard and paper mill (Ukraine, belongs to Pulp Mill Holding along with Russia’s Arkhangelsk PPM) became completely independent of the Russian market of wastepaper: over a four-month ban on...
View ArticleTalion-Terra launched OSB production in the Tver region
Talion Terra (owned by the managing company STOD LLC) has launched the OSB line in test mode at its site in Torzhok (Tver region) and produces 900-1000 m3 of panels daily on Dieffenbacher equipment,...
View ArticleRussian plywood and panel industry in 2015-2016: financial status and capacities
We publish the abstracts of WhatWood’s chief editor Kirill Baranov presentation at the conference “Panel industry of Russia”, which was held by the editorial board of the journal LesPromInform in...
View ArticleKronospan GmbH will build another plant for the production of materials for...
According to the press service of the Ministry of investment and innovation in the Moscow region, the commercial Director of Kronospan GmbH in Germany David Brenner during the presentation of the...
View ArticleRussian Timber Journal No. 11-2018: revenue of Top 100 forest industry...
Russian Timber Journal №11-2018 From November 13 to November 16 in St. Petersburg hosted the XV international exhibition and forum Pap-for 2018 The exhibition, which is held every two years, was...
View ArticleKronospan has announced its plans to build an OSB production plant with the...
As Interfax-Ukraine reports, the company is going to build an OSB plant on the existing particleboard production site in Novovolynsk (Ukraine). On April 25, 2019, the Board of Directors of the European...
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