About one house out of 10 in Europe is a prefabricated home as the European prefab quota increased in 2009 up to 11.07%. Prefabricated houses are becoming very popular among Europeans thanks to their numerous advantages such as eco-friendliness, affordable prices and the speed of the construction work.
But due to the global financial turmoil around the world, the growth on the European market for prefabricated houses will be dampened and cooled till 2010. Nevertheless it still remains quiet positive and keeps increasing annually with 3-5% according to the latest report by Interconnection Consulting, a marketing research company settled in Vienna.
From January to May spruce lumber exports of German sawmills amounted to 1.58 million m³, up 12.3% compared with the reference period last year. The export value increased by 20.9%.
Metso will supply a new bleached chemi-mechanical pulping (CTMPc) line to Chenzhou Yunong Paper Co. Ltd in Hunan province, China. The line will have a capacity of 500 tonnes a day and is to be commissioned in the second quarter of 2011. The order value is below EUR 10 million. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology's Q2 orders received.
The delivery from Metso involves a conical disc high consistency refiner, low consistency refiners, screens in the screen…
From January to May oak log exports from Germany amounted to 43,000 m³, down 1.56% compared to the previous year. The export value decreased by 0.9%. Similar to the beech log exports, a sharp increase in oak exports was noted in May.
Germany's beech log exports strongly rose in May compared to the same month last year. The increase of 137% for export to China confirmes that a lot of logs came from the woods behind schedule due to the snowy winter. Since April Sweden's paper industry has returned back to the German beech log markets.
The April has slowed down the downward tendency in oak lumber imports to Germany. By force of an 3% increase, the annualized decrease in the year to April was only 0.5%.
According to the Forestry Agency, the total industrial wood consumption was 63.2 million cu.m in fiscal 2009 representing a 19% decline compared to fiscal 2008...
According to the office of Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, China had decided to remove tariffs on 4,762 commodities imported from 33 of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Commodities with zero tariffs include wood products. The zero tariff treatment came into effect on 1 July 2010.
The countries involved are 26 African countries and 7 other countries, including Ethiopia, Benin, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Maldives, Nepal and Bangladesh.
For some time, China has not been imposing tariffs on imports of logs, sawnwood, fuelwood, wood chips, paper pulp and waste paper from all countries. However, tariffs are levied on plywood (15%), paper products (20%) and furniture (22%). These tariff regulations were applied to all countries, before the zero treatment came into effect.
Since 2001, China has imposed zero tariff for 41 of the world's LDCs...
The wood pellets market has been growing strongly over the past few years – both in Germany and abroad. While Germany is able to cover its own pellets demand from domestic production, countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Italy are forced to import the fuel. For this reason, the international pellets trade has been growing continuously. New pellets production facilities in Canada, the United States, Russia, South Africa or Australia have been springing up, offering their products on the…
