The price statistics of manufacturing was in December 2012 at stand still. In comparison to November, the only indices of a significant change were in structural timber, pellets and raw particle board and partially for Squared A/ B timber in storage

Production costs of wood processing companies are rising. This fact applies to both the production of oriented strand boards (OSB) and of medium density fibreboards (MDF

Romanian exports of OSB (oriented strand board) had a considerable growth in 2012. The OSB production factories launched by the Austrian companies, Kronospan in 2009 and Egger in 2011, represents the main cause for this increase

Canfor Corporation it has completed the sale of its 50 percent interest in the Peace Valley Oriented Strand Board (OSB) joint venture in Fort St. John, B.C., to Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

The Romanian OSB exports registered a spectaculous growth in 2012, exceeding for the first time the value of €100 million. At the begining of 2013, the statistics provided by Eurostat show even more surprising results. In Jan.-Feb

The EBRD is considering providing a two tranche senior loan (EUR 65 million and EUR 35 million) to Kronospan OSB FLLC, Belarus, to finance construction of an oriented strand board (OSB

. In addition, the latest surface structures in the Kaindl BOARDS collection are no exception and are visually just as striking as the caress of each individual fingertip

A fire broke at the reel warehouse of Metsä Board Corporation’s Gohrsmühle mill in Germany early in the morning of 15 February 2013. Several fire rescue departments&rsquo

Metsä Board Corporation, a part of Metsä Group, has divested the property and production assets of its Alizay mill site in France to Conceil Général l&rsquo

Canfor Corporation announced yesterday that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Louisiana-Pacific Corporation to sell Canfor’s 50 percent share in the Peace Valley Oriented Strand Board (OSB

Siempelkamp is currently celebrating its excellent half-yearly results The Orma company (based in Isparta/Turkey) engaged Siempelkamp to engineer and build a forming and pressing line with ContiRoll® for 7‘ x 35.4 m particle boards

The producer of wood based panels Kronospan will install a medium-density fibre (“MDF”) board production line at its plant in Novovolynsk in Western Ukraine

Dieffenbacher has received an order for a complete OSB plant in China. This is the second continuous OSB plant that Dieffenbacher will build in China. The first OSB plant for Baoyuan began production in 2010

In the context of the General Assembly of the European Organisatin of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) in Riga on 15 June 2012, Carsten Doehring from Ilim Timber was nominated to the Board

. The new Dieffenbacher Colorizer applies high quality direct digital printing on THDF/MDF and particle boards for applications such as laminate flooring and for furniture production