This report contains prices of logs, wooden beams, veneer, plywood, solid wood flooring and other items from timber markets in several Chinese regions: Jiashan Kaihua, Shanghai Furen...
After an unexpectedly fast recovery of sales and orders in the first half of 2010, which also brought about a corresponding high order backlog by mid-year, the management board of Homag looks optimistically to the future and has increased its sales revenue forecast for 2010.
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.
From January to May oak lumber exports of German sawmills amounted to 39,737 m³, slightly more than 14% over the reference period last year. Large quantities sold to China were the decisive factor for that development. In May 2,218 m³ could be marketed there. After the beech now German oak is getting more and more popular in China.
Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China 2010 (FMC 2010) will be staged alongside FMC Premium at Shanghai New International Expo Centre from September 7th to 10th.
Despite an increase of 14.2% in planed spruce lumber exports in May compared to the previous year, exports in the first five months of 2010 were still 14.4% below the reference period in 2009 and amounted to almost 220,000 m³. Export values rose by 42.2% in May. For the period January to May, the increase was 3.4%.
The Belarusian company VMG Industries Ltd. decided to build a new particleboard plant at the Mogilev location. For this purpose it signed a contract with the German line manufacturer Siempelkamp, agreeing the delivery of a complete particleboard plant in 2011.
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%.
