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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 50/2018 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Companies ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Wrede planning to wrap up sale process for Interprint during the course of next year   Bergvik Skog concludes agreements for restructuring   Continental Wood Products to become Bergs Timber UK   EU Commission clears way for industrial-scale sawmill in Štetí   Stora Enso plans investments of €550-600m for 2019   West Fraser and Conifex cutting softwood-timber output   Donaldson group acquisition to expand timber construction   Ecobloks presswood pallet block production relaunched   NTG wants to close head office of Rembrand Timber   Segezha Group EBITDA almost doubles in Q3   Brüder Theurl building CLT works in Carinthia by 2020   CEG planning to build works for torriefied pellets in Estonia   CPM: American Securities concludes takeover   Moelven Limtre puts new press into operation   Pinnacle puts pellets works into operation in Smithers   ACProducts aiming to take over Elkay Wood Products   American Woodmark takeover means double-digit growth   Ingka group to accelerate ongoing restructuring process   Haidl group to invest €14m in Reichersberg plant   Turnover growth for Forte on domestic market only   Amorim intends to start managing own plantations   Pedross mouldings to make debut in digital direct printing   Weitzer converts production to multi-layer parquet at Pana   Dasso working with Barth since separation from Moso   Hain to launch product line with click lock system   Södra finally finds buyer for Berg & Berg   Eurobaustoff: 2017 turnover achieved by end of November   Kingfisher withdraws from Russia, Spain and Portugal   Six new members to join Holzring in January ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Roundwood/Sawnwood ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ US shippers pushing search for alternatives to hardwood timber exports to China   Less hardwood timber exported by US shippers   FTP: Felling in Europe to rise by 30 % by 2040   Japan imports 14% less softwood lumber from Europe   VPA negotiations between EU and Guyana concluded   20m SEK in subsidies for driverless forest machines   Finnish softwood lumber exports down by 11%   Mellanskog also increases prices for industrial hardwood   30% rise expected in 2018 for exports from Belarus   COFFI expects further increase in softwood lumber production in 2018 and 2019   Central and eastern European sawmills' sales efforts stepped up considerably in Italy   Kattowitz: Fine wood on offer bought up   Radom: Fine wood prices increased by 23%   Softwood lumber exports up 3% on last year   Quotas increasingly imposed on woodchip deliveries in Germany due to high inventories ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Wood-based panels ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Slight decline only in Latvian plywood exports   Brazilian exports of wood-based panels stabilise   Elliotis pine plywood exports 11% higher than in 2017   Port warehouses for elliotis pine plywood   German foreign trade in raw particleboard falls again   EPF and EFBWW sign formaldehyde agreement   Turkish anti-trust authority investigating 12 producers ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Furniture ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Belgian wood industry 3.6 % up on last year   German furniture exports down 7.1% in September   Slow business in summer trickles down to revenues   German furniture exports still up 2.2% after nine months ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Building products ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Unilin and Classen will not set up stands at Domotex   Välinge Innovation, Beauflor respond to suit filed by I4F ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ People ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Pekka Paasivaara has been appointed new chairman of the Woodworking Machinery Association within the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA)   Finnish Raute group has appointed Tarja Järvinen as new CFO   Dominik Haller has left Schattdecor as corporate communication team leader   Ruben Desmet has taken over management of the segment „Flooring Rest of the World" of Mohawk Industries   Frank Boykin, CFO at Mohawk Industries, is to retire over the course of 2019   Designated chief financial offficer (CFO) David Denton commenced his position at Lowe's on 19 November   Lars Ruhe was appointed to the management board of Max Wagner in mid-November   Timber purchasers Karsten Müller and Jonas Rechenberg left DSHwood GmbH, which belongs to Danish timber trading group DSHwood, at the end of October ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ The next issue of EUWID  Wood Products and Panels will be published next Wednesday. 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