Tag: Germany

China: booming roundwood supplies from the Czech Republic and Germany in 2019

China’s log imports in 2019 totalled 60.57 million m3 valued at US$9.434 billion (CIF), a year on year increase of just 1% in volume but there was a decline in the value of imports by 14%. The average...

Russian Timber Journal 02-2020: Russia: wood pellet exports grew by 28% and totaled almost 2 million tons in 2019; the Russian Government to consider the creation of a separate forest ministry in Russia; abnormal temperature undermined harvesting enterprises of the Leningrad region; the Ministry of Industry and Trade is agreeing on the ban on government purchases of foreign furniture with other departments

Russian Timber Journal 02-2020: In 2019, wood pellet exports from Russia showed the highest growth pace among all export-oriented forest products; Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Government to consider the creation of a separate forest ministry in Russia; the...

Russian Timber Journal 05-2019: WhatWood interview with CEO of Altailes; Causes of dropping prices for Russian plywood; Wood product exports hit by US tariffs; Rosleskhoz supported distant monitoring of forests; WhatWood’s study of Russian forest products exports and imports for 4 years; Sawmill profit margins fell substantially in North America

Russian Timber Journal 05-2019: WhatWood interview with CEO of Altailes; Causes of dropping prices for Russian plywood; Wood product exports hit by US tariffs; Rosleskhoz supported distant monitoring of forests; WhatWood’s study of Russian forest products exports and...

The Russian company will supply a equipment for processing low-quality wood into liquid biofuel to Germany

EnergoLesProm LLC, 100% daughter of ELP Group LLC, the portfolio company of Fund of sowing investments of RVC, signed the first export contract for delivery to Germany of installation of fast pyrolysis FPP02 for processing of low-quality wood...

Russian Timber Journal №04-2019: In 2018, the world sawn timber trade fell for the first time in five years; analytical study of WhatWood on the market of raw timber in Russia; decline in prices and volumes of trade in sawn timber on world markets; another record of China’s imports of round timber

Russian Timber Journal №04-2019: Russian Timber Journal 04-2019: In 2018, the world sawn timber trade fell for the first time in five years; WhatWood’s interview with CEO of RFP Group Dmitry Valtfogel; disbalance between the demand and supply...

Mondi invests €30 million into one of its most innovative factories for the production of corrugated packaging

About €30 million will be invested in the modernization of the Mondi factory in Ansbach in southern Germany, including the installation of a modern corrugated unit, which is planned to be completed in 2020. This will allow the...

By 2023 Koenig & Bauer, a German manufacturer of printing presses for packaging, plans to increase profits to 1.5 billion euros

According to Сlaus Bolza-Schünemann, CEO of Koenig & Bauer, “the growth of the cardboard, corrugated and flexible packaging markets will allow us to actively use the available opportunities. Therefore, by 2023, we plan to increase the company’s revenue...

In Germany, imports of hardwood plywood increased by 5 %

In 2018, the import of plywood hardwoods of Germany increased by 5% to 748 585 m3. According to preliminary data of the Federal statistical office, the growth of production of softwood plywood was even more significant – from...

More than 1.5 thousand companies will exhibit at the upcoming Ligna-2019 exhibition in Hannover in May

According to the press service of the organizer of the exhibition Deutsche Messe, in May this year, more than 1,500 companies will gather in Hanover to demonstrate the technologies of the forest and woodworking industry, which will become...

Russian Timber Journal №01-2019: the eight-year work of the existing head of Rosleskhoz was assessed as unsatisfactory; WhatWood summarizes the preliminary results of the LPK for 2018; the company “Solikamskbumprom” took a loan of 27 million euros; Segezha Group completed the design of a new pulp and paper mill in the Krasnoyarsk region; prices and volumes of production of LPK in Russia for 4Q 2017-2018

Russian Timber Journal №01-2019: summed up the first results of the LPK for 2018; basic prices for round wood and lumber; prices for the products of LPK in Russia for 2017-2018; exchange rates to the US dollar from...

Kastamonu company introduced in Germany, production plant in Tatarstan

In January 2019, Kastamonu presented wood-Board products from the plant in the SEZ “Alabuga” to the world industry community at the Domotex exhibition in Germany. Visitors and guests of the event were shown new collections of laminate Floorpan...

Global timber market review #21-2016

– In the first three quarters of 2016, log imports through Taicang Port, China, totalled 6.51 million m3 valued at $920 million, ITTO reported. Of the total, the value of log imports from Russia through Taicang Port soared...