Much earlier than last year, this year's order season for hardwood logs and sawlogs will start. Tentative orders in the last season and constraints during the log harvest due to the harsh winter of 2009/2010 have reduced wet storages at mills quickly.
Pfleiderer AG, Germanys biggest producer of engineered wood products, could tie in with the positive trend in its first quarter and increased sales by 7.3% to € 381.4 million in the second. In the first half of the year, sales of the wood-based panel manufacturer amounted to € 737 million, up 6.4% from the reference period a year earlier.
Austria's paper industry is gathering way again. Compared to the first half of 2009, first six months of 2010 showed a growth in production of paper and cardboard of more than 11%, according to preliminary figures.
The global pulp industry benefited from lower wood fiber costs and higher product prices in the 2Q/10. Wood chip and pulpwood prices fell the most in the US, Sweden, Finland, Australia and Eastern Canada. Both the softwood and hardwood wood fiber price indices (SFPI and HFPI) fell for the first time since early 2009, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.
In 2009 the Austrian wood industry, covering the complete value chain from forest up to paper and wood products, showed a trade surplus of € 3.08 billion.
Egger finished its fiscal year 2009/2010 with a slight sales decline of 2% to € 1.478 billion. Thus the Tyrolean manufacturer of wood-based panels came better through a difficult year than many of its competitors.
A new law for the modernization of agriculture adopted in France on July 13th affects also the forestry sector as it targets to intensify the timber mobilization in small private-owned forests.
Siempelkamp ha chiuso un altro contratto nell’Europa dell’Est: a giugno, l’azienda bielorussa Vmg Industries Ltd. ha firmato un contratto per la fornitura di un impianto completo per la produzione di pannelli truciolari che verrà installato a Mogilev entro il 2011.
