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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 49/2018 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Companies ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Saint-Gobain plans to sell German SGBDD with Raab Karcher by end of 2019   Lowe's aiming to close another 51 branches by end of January   Rougier to sell distribution subsidiary to Groupe Malvaux   Mercer Timber: Downtimes burden results   Treyer Paletten commences production at new plant   Western Forest Products takes over Columbia Vista   Westervelt builds sawmill in Thomasville, Alabama   Komptech buys adjacent premises for expansion   Operations at large-scale Štetí sawmill start in 2020   Vecoplan's sales revenue and result considerably improved   Weinig boosting activities in USA and Russia   Ardex subsidiary Wakol buys majority in Loba   Kinnarps ceases production in Worms at end of September   Roto forecasts 5% growth for 2018   Greenply's MDF deliveries down despite higher output   Masonite's sales up due to one-off effects alone   Pfleiderer Group: EBITDA to reach in €143m in full year   Hexion's sales revenue raised again by cost transfer   Kronospan Luxembourg has new manufacturing strategy   Positive trend comes to a halt in CMPC's plywood deliveries   Ahlstrom-Munksjö publishes prospectus for capital increase   First improvement in Akzo Nobel's results since last year   Methanex launches production at Chile IV works   Kronospan bank doubles its stake in Surteco   Ricoh wants to become sole owner of Colorgate   Rushil Décor's revenue from MDF sales down 16 % again   Egger receives air quality permit for particleboard mill   Purainer is now a Lamigraf shareholder ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Roundwood/Sawnwood ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Prices for Scandinavian softwood timber now under pressure in Great Britain   Sustained growth in log prices in UK until September   British lumber imports increase by 27%   11 % more sawlogs taken in by Finnish sawmilling industry   Industrial-wood prices 47 % higher than last year in Norway   More timber produced by Finnish sawmilling industry   Supply of beetlewood in Sweden higher than expected   Latvia roundwood exports up 72% in third quarter   USA reckoning with over 110m t of stormwood after hurricane   Split in quality continues to grow on central European softwood timber markets   Hardly any contracts concluded for green spruce yet   Prices rolled over for LAS pine from green-felling operations   Federal government releases 25m € for post-disaster recovery   Small private forests require more funds for recovery   Germany and Austria to optimise timber logistics ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Wood Products ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Visible & non-visible gluelam grade price differences meanwhile increasingly significant   Lively sales activities with window scantlings continued until the end of November ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Wood-based panels ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Slight decline in Japanese plywood imports   Drop in import prices of Chinese plywood   Some gradual declines in Indonesian plywood prices   Increase in foreign trade in tropical plywood   UNECE/FAO: Slower pace of growth in GUS region   Central Europe: Ongoing price pressure on MDF/HDF markets in recent weeks   More significant expansion of OSB capacities expected   OSB prices have slipped €5-10 in recent weeks ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Building products ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ I4F has doubled its number of licensees during 2018   I4F taking action against Välinge licensees in USA   Dutch Court postpones rulings in patent cases   New change made in MMFA product-group categories   Even faster rate of decline in German parquet production ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Pulp/paper ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Growth in pulp output now a little less vigorous in Brazil   Prices for eucalyptus pulp holding at 1,050 US$ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Trade ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ German DIY store sector at annual target level   Worldwide DIY turnover increases to €589bn ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ People ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Christian Lazarevic will succeed Alois Lechner as managing director of Roto Frank Austria at the end of 2018   Thomas Goebel is to take over the position of general secretary at the European Timber Trade Federation (ETTF) in addition to his duties as managing director at GD Holz   Douglas Clark has taken over the position of senior vice president supply chain at US–American Lumber Liquidators   Olli-Pekka Vanhanen is to leave Raute as group vice president and CFO as per 7 February 2019 at the latest   Danie van der Merwe, CEO of Steinhoff International Holdings, is to stand down from his position at his own request as per 31 December   As per 16 November the supervisory board of Koelnmesse decided to terminate collaboration with managing director Katharina Hamma   Austrian Neudoerfler Office Systems has been under the management of Heidi Adelwöhrer as CEO and CFO since 16 August ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ The next issue of EUWID  Wood Products and Panels will be published next Wednesday. 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