Wood-based Panels

General overview of the wooden I-beams on the Russian market

Russia has two types of production for wooden I-beams: industrial formwork and frames/floor slabs in the private and [...]
March 14, 2017 Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...Russia

Indonesian plywood is offered big opportunities by FLEGT license on the EU market

The Global Timber Forum has published an interview with the CEOs of two European importing companies, Alexander de Groot of [...]

Plywood industry in Finland is declining

The production volumes of the Finnish plywood industry declined y-o-y by 1.1%, reaching 1,140 million m3 [...]
February 20, 2017 Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...Europe

Trump administration postpones EPA formaldehyde regulation

President Trump issued an Executive Order over the weekend that freezes all recently published EPA regulations for a 60-day [...]

European parquet market: Positive trend consolidated

      The Board of Directors of the European Federation of the Parquet Industry met on [...]

EPAL Euro pallets sets new record for production last year

With an increase of almost 11%, and a total of 73.6 million EPAL Euro pallets produced around the globe [...]
March 16, 2016 Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...Europe

Kährs Group reaches higher profits during 2015

Net sales of the Swedish wood flooring manufacturer Kährs totalled SEK 667 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 [...]

Turkey becomes the largest MDF producer in the EU

After Turkey strengthened its export markets in the last two decades, they have now become the largest medium-density fiberboard [...]
February 9, 2016 Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...Europe

Lentex buys wood flooring manufacturer Baltic Wood

Through its subisidiary Lentex, the Polish construction materlials producer Gamrat has acquired the wood flooring manufacturer Baltic Wood.   [...]

Wood-based panels and timber imports strongly increase in the UK

UK’s demand for imported timber and wood-based panel imports jumped 15% to 9.66 million m3 in 2014 [...]