Wood house building
US housing starts in October remained at the level of last year
November 25, 2021 ` 23:52
The U.S. Census Bureau reported on Wednesday that privately‐owned housing starts in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 1,520,000. This is -0.7% below the revised September rate of 1,530,000 but is 0.4% above the...
Segezha Group introduces CLT to the European market
October 29, 2021 ` 17:03
The Sokol CLT plant located in Vologda Oblast is the first Russian enterprise to pass the European Technical Assessment (ETA) on product performance. The ETA of the plant has been conducted by the Austrian Institute of Construction Engineering...
Russian Timber Journal 09-2021: Interview with Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO of Raute Corporation; current situation in the roundwood market, industry’s opportunities and restrictions from 2022; Segezha Group agrees to acquire forestry assets in Siberia for $515 million; Ikea expects shortages due to supply-chain crisis until mid-2022; Oktyabrsky LZK is going to invest over 1 billion rubles to build a sawmill in the Irkutsk Region
October 28, 2021 ` 15:02
Russian Timber Journal 09-2021: Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO of Raute Corporation: “The Russian market has been among the most important ones for Raute over the past 10 years”; current situation in the roundwood market, industry’s opportunities and restrictions...
Houses from MHM panels will be built in a Yakutian village that suffered from a forest fire
October 15, 2021 ` 18:44
Houses for residents of Byas-Kyuel village in Gorny District that suffered from a forest fire will be built from wood using the MHM (Massiv Holz Mauer) technology, as reported by Aysen Nikolaev, Head of the Region. Head of...
Ivan Lepikhov, CEO, Vigvam.ru construction firm: “It is now crucial to work in short cycles”
October 8, 2021 ` 18:43
Russia is undergoing a boom of country houses construction (specifically, those made of wooden structures) that began in 2020 because of the pandemic and continued in 2021. The Russian house construction market is therefore facing an acute shortage...
U.S. single-family housing starts decline further in August 2021
September 22, 2021 ` 20:51
Overall housing starts advanced 3.9% MoM to a rate of 1.615 million units in August 2021. Data for July was revised up to a rate of 1.554 million units from the previously reported 1.534 million units. Housing starts...
July U.S. housing starts fall 7% from June
August 19, 2021 ` 16:35
July U.S. housing starts were down 7% from June, but were 2.5% higher on the year, according to data released Aug. 18 by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. July housing...
U.S. housing starts rise in June
July 21, 2021 ` 17:41
U.S. homebuilding increased more than expected in June, though expensive lumber, as well as shortages of labor and land, continued to constrain builders’ ability to fully take advantage of robust demand for housing. Housing starts rose 6.3% to...
Russian Timber Journal 06-2021: interview with Alexander Vysotskiy, Product Director at Data Driven; European Commission’s report on imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of birch plywood originating in Russia; as of January 1, 2022, quotas on exporting softwood pulpwood and logs will be cancelled in Russia; US lumber prices fell sharply; the Ministry of Industry and Trade considers pulp and paper mills construction in the Far East to be inefficient
July 20, 2021 ` 22:38
Russian Timber Journal 06-2021: Alexander Vysotskiy, Product Director at Data Driven: “Lockdown created the necessary conditions for the digital business”; the European Commission approved for 6 months the introduction of preliminary anti-dumping duties on birch plywood from Russia; the...
Pfeifer successfully completes the second expansion stage at the CLT plant in Schlitz
July 6, 2021 ` 16:35
The cross laminated timber plant of the Pfeifer Group, which went into operation at the beginning of 2020, is doubling its capacity to 100,000 m³ annually this year as planned. In order to increase the joinery performance and...
US housing starts slow — builder optimism falls
July 5, 2021 ` 19:02
US homebuilding rebounded less than expected in May 2021 as expensive lumber and shortages of other materials continued to constrain builders’ ability to take advantage of an acute shortage of houses on the market. The latest report from...
A project aimed at the development of individual housing construction was announced in the Khabarovsk Region
June 30, 2021 ` 16:11
The project, which was initiated by the Acting Khabarovsk Region Mikhail Degtyarev, is focused on mass standard housing construction in areas where low-rise wooden buildings are especially in demand. The Agency for Attraction of Investments and Development of...