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­ Click here to view the web version. ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ WOOD PRODUCTS AND PANELS ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Dear Reader,   Welcome to Headlines, your preview of reports and articles featured in the latest issue of EUWID Wood Products and Panels. We hope you find this interesting and informative reading. Andreas Ruf Editor-in-Chief  EUWID Wood Products and Panels ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Contents Issue 48/2018 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Companies ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Canfor entering European softwood-timber market by acquiring a 70 % stake in Vida   Siparila enlarging capacity for façade cladding   Hasslacher: Rise in Nordlam laminated timber capacity   Russian Sawmill 25 group's output boosted by 18 %   Russian ULK terminating production at Pomor Timber   Schweighofer presents its first sustainability report   Byko-Lat putting planing line into operation in late December   SBP introducing new organisational structure in 2019   Barrette-Chapais is building 210,000t pellet plant   Cairngorm concludes fifth acquisition in timber trade   Pollmeier expands LVL production to include spruce   Enviva's pellet sales volume boosted by roughly 14 %   Pinnacle's quarterly result impaired by lower margins   Armstrong Flooring sells wood flooring area to AIP   Södra to terminate parquet production at Berg & Berg   Amorim: Floor & wall turnover decreases once again   Jeld-Wen: Results development hindered by court case   Kährs no longer publishing business reports   Kährs to start producing pellets by end of year   Lumber Liquidators: Recent turnover & profit improvement   Masonite acquires door manufacturer BWI for 23m US$   Schüco: Full takeover of Middle East subsidiary   Arauco achieves growth in output and sales volume   Grigeo Baltwood delivers slightly higher profits   Pfleiderer Group spends €125m on share buy-back programme   Ahlstrom-Munksjö releases pro-forma figures   Eucatex benefits from higher prices in Wood division   OCI Nitrogen reports slight rise in raw melamine sales   Surteco: Plastics unit books bigger rise in revenues ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Roundwood/Sawnwood ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Latvian exports of softwood lumber grow by 4 %   Negotiations now underway for whitewood contracts for deliveries in first quarter 2019   No signs of revival on North African market yet   14% decline in oak roundwood imports   Spain: 4% increase in oak lumber imports   Tropical lumber imports continue to decrease   Brisk demand for green spruce in Austria   UNECE/FAO expects higher logging volume in Europe   State forestry businesses have increased oak sawlog sales prices to varying extents   Demand for many ranges of oak lumber slackened off in autumn   Some exporters forced to reduce exports to China ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Wood Products ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Global pellet production increases to 32.1m t   Further increase in pellet prices in November   FJC price indices generally continue to decline   Growing seasonal divergence in supply and demand on finger-jointed carcassing markets ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Wood-based panels ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Spot prices for raw particleboard continued on a downward path in the past few weeks ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Surfaces ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Titanium dioxide prices in strong decline ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Building products ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Further reduction of German parquet sales ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Construction ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Germany: 7.9% rise in construction permits ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ People ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Paul de Cock has been appointed president of the flooring North America segment of Mohawk Industries as per 13 November   As per 1 March Sakari Ahdekivi will succeed Pia Aaltonen-Forsell as CFO at Ahlstrom-Munksjö   As per 1 December 2018 Oliver Henle is to take over commercial management of kitchen furniture manufacturer August Siekmann (SieMatic)   Kristine L. Juster has been new CEO of Kimball International since 1 November   Deutsche Fertighaus Holding (DFH) appointed Stephan Klee as managing director of the Okal distribution line at the beginning of November   Ivo Heine transferred from Franz Habisreutinger to the importer and wholesaler Robert Neudeck as per 1 November   Since 1 September Rolf Wunsch has been creating a roundwood purchasing team for the beech sawmill of Pollmeier Malchow ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ The next issue of EUWID  Wood Products and Panels will be published next Wednesday. For further information and details go to www.euwid-wood-products.com. Need more information? If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact our editorial team at holz@euwid.de. ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ADVERTISEMENT ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ EUWID Making Markets Transparent Free trial offer Are you interested in the broad range of topics and industries covered by EUWID? 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