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Andreas Ruf Editor-in-Chief EUWID Wood Products and Panels
Contents Issue 03/2019
Companies
Broadview Holding set to acquire Formica after buying Trespa, Arpa and Westag
Metsä sends first full trainload of softwood timber to China
Werner GmbH of Trier must file for insolvency again
BSW Timber's result restored to positive zone
Holzco bankrupt as major order falls through
Ipe Woods USA takes over competing Internet platform
MM-Holz investing in extending picking section in Wismar
Pavatex set to cease manufacturing in Cham
Vanachai's sales revenue still heading downhill
Roseburg planning to acquire MDF mill in El Dorado
Pfleiderer's Baruth MDF/HDF works still standing after fire
Ten CPS+ presses put into operation by Dieffenbacher
Egger: Write-off in Argentina makes dent into earnings
Search continues for investors for insolvent HDM
Roundwood/Sawnwood
Bangkirai producers were willing to grant concessions on prices at end of last year
Prices for meranti generally unchanged
South America: Significant price increase for decking
500,000 m³ of damaged wood caused by Alfrida in Sweden
Aapeli storm caused only minor damage in Finland
Finland's forest industries' log intake up by 23 % in 2018
Higher oak prices in Brzesko and Wroclaw
Threat of bark-beetle calamity looming over Sweden this year
Zielona Gora: Oak prices only slightly higher than last year
Centre of competence for forestry and timber now open
Prices for LAS pine currently holding steady at level reached at end of 2018
Softwood-timber buyers exercising restraint in purchasing in anticipation of falling prices
16% decline in beech roundwood export
Wood Products
Prices for visible-grade gluelam timber largely stable in the light of high prices for lamellas
Worldwide pellet trade up by an estimated 26 % in 2018
Growth in number of ENplus-pellet producers
US pellet production in 2018 20 % higher than in 2017
Wood-based panels
Further rise again in British particleboard and OSB imports
Further big increase in British hardwood plywood imports
Double-digit increase in birch plywood exports
Chile: Plywood exports up by one quarter
No movement in prices for poplar plywood made in Europe of late
Particleboard prices have not dropped as much as expected in first quarter of 2019
Methanex and SCC lower North American prices
Methanol contract price slashed by 18.2%
Construction
Approvals for multi-family houses down by 14.4%
People
Dr.-Ing. Herbert Müller will resign as chairman of the management board of Surteco during the course of 2019
Egger has appointed Dr. Ewald Aschauer to the supervisory board with effect as per 28 September 2018
Ivo Schintz has resigned as chief commercial officer (CCO) of Pfleiderer Group with effect as per 17 December 2018
Jason Clarke intends to withdraw from the supervisory board of Pfleiderer Group
Swiss Krono Group appointed Roger Braun as new location head of the particleboard and MDF/HDF plant in Menznau
Markus Haag, head of sales at Rauch Spanplattenwerk stood down from this position at the end of 2018 and now represents the company as an independent sales agent
On 12 December 2018 the supervisory board of Dürr extended the appointment of Ralf W. Dieter as chairman of the management board ahead of schedule until June 2023
Frederick Lynch, CEO of Masonite International, intends to retire at the end of the second quarter of 2019
The board of directors of Inwido appointed Henrik Hjalmarsson as new CEO and president
Since the end of October 2018 Marina Röhr has been sole managing director of Röhr Holding and Röhr GmbH
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