Tag: plywood

Global Trends Review, May 20-26, 2013: J-grade demand to decline slightly in Q3; high prices may cut Chinese deliveries of Canadian lumber in mid-term

Weaker lumber prices may hinder any further sawmill start-ups in North America, as reported by International Wood Markets. Until prices in North America stabilize, buyers in China and Japan are likely to act defensively, buying only fill-in quantities....

Global Trends Review, May 13-19, 2013: OSB demand in China predicted to grow; new board capacities to appear in China and India

In the latest contracts concluded with buyers in East Asia, Baltic shippers have agreed increases of €25-30/m3 on the softwood lumber prices that applied in the first quarter, EUWID Wood reported. In North Africa, prices in the hitherto...

Global Trends Review, May 06-12, 2013: OSB prices plateaued; China’s GDP slowed down

The slight decline in North American OSB and softwood plywood prices seen in the first half of April has intensified in the past fortnight, EUWID Wood reported. The slump in OSB prices, in particular, is being attributed mainly...

Global Trends Review, April 29 – May 05, 2013: Canadian quarterly reports: NBSK up, paper down, and OSB surging

Major Canadian and North-West U.S. companies posted first-quarter results last week. Mercer International Inc., operating in Canada and Germany, reported net loss of €0.4 million compared to net income of €1.2 million in 1Q 2012. Total revenues for...

Global Trends Review, April 08-14, 2013: Housing market drives capacity changes

Since April 15, 2013, WhatWood launches English version of Global Trends Review, as announced earlier. Sawlog prices in Europe were generally lower in 2012 than in 2011 because of lower log demand from the sawmilling sector, as reported...

UPM: Plywood market in 2012 was tough on strong competition from Latin America and Russia

Helsinki, April 10. Sales of UPM in 2012 reached €10.44 billion, which is 4% higher on-year. However, operating profit of the company declined by 22% to €530 million, as reported in the annual report of UPM. Log prices...

Plywood market in Russia in 2012

Today’s visual graphics is a brief review of plywood market in Russia in 2012: prices and largest producing regions. Details on the topic are available in the recent annual report of WhatWood analysts. Click on the image to...

Ilim Timber sales in 2012 reached $710 million, lumber production was 2.28M cu m

St. Petersburg, February 05. Ilim Timber holding announced year-end production and financial results. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, Ilim Timber produced 2.56 million cubic meters of wood products. Total lumber production at Ust-Ilimsk sawmill (Irkutsk...

Sveza launched production of cut-to-size plywood at Ust-Izhora mill

St. Petersburg, November 26. Ust-Izhora plywood mill (Leningrad region, belongs to Sveza Group) has launched new equipment to produce special cut-to-size plywood products. The new production site will enable to expand the range of products and to meet...

Novator plywood mill installed new veneer reparation line

Novator plywood mill (Velikiy Ustuyg, belongs to Sveza Group) installed new veneer reparation line made by Raute (Finland). COO of the mill, Vladimir Pelevin, said that this new line will cut costs in veener production threefold and improve...

Ilim Timber increased plywood capacities by 25%

Ilim Bratsk LDZ (Bratsk, Irkutsk region, belongs to Ilim Timber company) launched two veneer lines, as reported by the company. New equipment will allow to increase market plywood production by 25% to 200,000 cu m annually and will...