Ilim Timber successfully acquired production assets of Klausner Group ( Klausner Nordic Timber and Klausner Holz Bayern ) and the new sawmill line (Linck). Brand new equipment will be installed within the frame of modernization of the plant in Ust'-Ilimsk. The amount of the transaction exceeded EUR 100 million. Sberbank and Transcredit Bank took part in financing of the transaction. Investment banking service has…
These results exceeded all expectations: the International Timber Fair Klagenfurt recorded 22,000 trade visitors this year (an increase of 5%). Increases were noted in particular in visitors from the countries of South-East Europe.
452 exhibitors from 22 nations presented at the timber fair in Klagenfurt from 26 to 29 August 2010, covering the themes of ‘wood, forestry, sawmills, transport, wood construction and bio-energy’. “Our trade fair was…
Framing lumber prices carried some momentum from the previous week into early trading. But midweek news that U.S. sales of new and pre-owned homes hit record lows in July quashed much of that momentum...
Sales increase of German sawmills, planing and impregnating plants, that was starting at the beginning of the year, continued in June. Export sales rose strongly compared with May. This particularly applies to transactions within the euro zone.
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...
Plywood: A total of 3.52 million cu.m of plywood were exported in the first half of 2010, valued at US$1,583 million, up 47% in volume and 44% in value from the same period last year...
Sawnwood imports totalled 6.5 million cu.m, valued at US$1,669 million in the first half of 2010, up 60% in volume and 77% in value over the same period last year...
During the first half of 2010, there were five provinces that imported more than one million cu.m of logs each: Jiangsu Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Heilongjiang Province, Shandong Province and Shanghai Municipality...
Log imports totalled 16.6 million cu.m, valued at US$2,905 million in the first half of 2010, up 25% in volume and 60% in value from the same period in 2009...
