Companies in the timber industry

Siempelkamp to deliver another MDF plant to Asia

Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) ordered a complete MDF plant including a high-end 4' ContiRoll® press from Siempelkamp in April [...]

Masisa Tricoya Super MDF will be launched in Latin America

Masisa, a panel producer in Latin America, has agreed to carry out evaluation of Tricoya including market testing, production testing [...]

Schweighofer, Egger and Kronospan have most of the control over the Romanian timber market

Schweighofer, Kronospan and Egger are three Austrian companies with wood processing operations in Romania. Their cumulated business exceeded EUR 1 [...]

Metsä invests EUR 1,1 billion in bioproduct sawmill

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has launched an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure related to a bioproduct mill planned [...]

Kronospan believes that biomass expansion is causing higher timber prices

Austrian wood panel company, Kronospan, has launched a warning over the future of its business in the United Kingdom, with [...]

Sonae sells two plants from France to Kronospan

Sonae Indústria informed that, further to the announcement of 17 March, its indirect affiliate, Isoroy SAS, has today completed [...]

IKEA shows important market growth in China, Russia and US

The 2013 financial report for the Ikea Group, the world's largest furniture retailer, provides insights into the outlook for [...]

Interfor reported record lumber production and sales in 2013

Interfor reported net earnings of $11.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to net losses of $0 [...]

Eneco inaugurates huge biomass plant in the Netherlands

At the beginning of February the Dutch Utility company Eneco has inaugurated its Bio Golden Raand biomass power plant, located [...]

Stora Enso plans to improve production and efficiency in Central European sawmills 

Stora Enso is planning to invest EUR 28 million in modernising and developing Murow sawmill in Poland to increase its [...]