EUWID Special: Wood-based Panels
- EUWID special: Wood-Based Panels is focusing on recent developments in machine and plant construction, the wood-based panel industry and its suppliers
- With this special issue, EUWID is tackling the latest news that we report on exclusively in many cases in our weekly publications EUWID Holz und Holzwerkstoffe and EUWID Wood Products and Panels
- This magazine scales up our EUWID Holz special concept, which has been established for over 20 years, to a global audience
- EUWID special issues, which until now have only been published in German, deliver a longer-term overview of developments and changes in the wood-based panel industry and related segments with background reports and special articles
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Machinery
- Woodworking machinery manufacturers set to end 2023 with growth after all
- Sunds Fibertech takes over technology and service for KüstersPress/ContiPress systems
- Pal and MDF Recovery are planning to industrialise MDF recycling technology
- Homag Group: incoming orders went down 18% in 2023, turnover increased
Chemicals
- Methanol contract price for first quarter remained just below €500
- European melamine manufacturers seeking another review of imports
Wood-based panels
- More movement in the wood-based panel and surfaces industry in the recent past
- Container rerouting complicates supply situation concerning imported products
- Fedustria sells association building in the centre of Brussels to a property developer
- German wood-based panel industry ended 2023 with a 15.6% downturn
- Prices tending to stage minor recovery after stabilising from January onwards
Structural panels
- North America: OSB production slipped below 20m m³ for the first time again
- USA: OSB imports from the EU almost halved from third to fourth quarter
- EU to extend anti-dumping duties on birch plywood to include Turkey and Kazakhstan
- Finnish plywood exports declined by one-fourth, LVL went down by 5%
- Recovery in the last quarter reduced the slump in elliotis pine plywood exports
- Expansion of insulation board capacities is encountering declining markets in Europe
- VMG Group expanded manufacturing at the Akmenė plant to LVL and I-joists
- Swiss Krono OSB project entitled Orpinia is expected to start production in 2026
- Swiss Krono Group builds plywood mill at existing OSB site in Hungary
Composite panels
- North America: shipments of composite panels showed a double-digit downturn
- With a slump from the EU, particleboard imports in the US fell below 1m m³ mark
- Iran expands MDF/HDF production, particleboard output tended to decline
- Kronospan Group acquired Simsboro particleboard mill from Roseburg
- Acquisition of a stake in Panel Plus to give Egger access to Asian production
- Australian Panels planning to produce MDF in Mount Gambier from 2026
- Pfleiderer Group finds new purchaser for two Polish wood-based panel plants
- Egger plans to install two short-cycle presses at new Markt Bibart site in medium term
- Egger Group rolled out a new collection concept with launch of Decorative 24+
Surfaces
- EU Commission launches anti-dumping investigation into TiO2 imports from China
- Interprint: first printing machine for thermoplastic foils in Pittsfield operating
Furniture
- German furniture industry turnover down 4.3% to just below €18.0bn in 2023
- Online furniture turnover went down in all quarters and in full year 2023
- Office furniture turnover was slightly up last year and almost reached peak of 2018
- Prefabricated furniture part producers stuck in the middle and feeling the pinch
- Raumplus plant in Wuxi making room dividers and wardrobe systems since July
- Chinese furniture producer Kuka Home opens plants in Texas and Mexico
- Nobia Group plans to divest Portfolio BU companies Bribus and ewe by end of March
Flooring
- Hard flooring manufacturers expect 2024 to be another year of falling revenues
- EPLF: downward spiral in laminate flooring sales slowed last year
- MMFA: SPC flooring bucked the overall trend with additional growth
Doors
- Door manufacturer Masonite to be integrated into Owens Corning Group
- In selling the Climate Division, Arbonia Group is to concentrate on door activities
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Machinery
- With a new order from Sudama, Andritz has sold a total of nine refiners to India
- Continuous presses now used to make plywood for the first time
- Voestalpine places power plant order with Dieffenbacher Energy
- Sunds Fibertech aims for further growth after majority sale to investor Priveq
- SGS completed relocation of short-cycle press to MeisterWerke within two months
Chemicals
- European Commission has published formaldehyde regulation in mid-July
- Melamine manufacturers and converters file action to have ECHA decision annulled
- Methanol converters were forced to replace imports from Russia by other deliveries
- Acquisition of Borealis Nitro plants added melamine to Agrofert’s product range
- Swiss Krono Group first user of BASF’s biomass-balanced Kauramin resin
- Gruppo Mauro Saviola acquired all Advachem shares at the start of April
Wood-based panels
- All European markets have experienced mounting pressure in recent months
- Central Europe: wood-based panel prices still falling after the summer holidays
Structural panels
- Fletcher Building planning OSB line at former particleboard site in Taupo
- Kronospan to invest US$350m in new OSB line in Eastaboga, Alabama
- Louisiana-Pacific to convert Wawa site from OSB to siding production
- Swiss Krono Group is planning to build next OSB mill in southwest of France
- Kingspan poised to acquire 51.0% stake in Steico by the start of 2024
- Sonae Arauco to start manufacturing insulating board in Meppen too
- Plywood producer Groupe Thébault to build LVL plant in the centre of France
- Metsä implements plans to expand LVL capacities at the Äänekoski site
Composite panels
- Roseburg shutting Taylorsville mill and investing in new MDF/HDF mill
- CalPlant in liquidation, ongoing sales process for plant and machinery
- Slotex owner acquired Ikea facilities in Novgorod and restarted production
- Kastamonu Entegre produced first particleboard at new site on 17 August
- Particleboard line at Kronospan Sanem to make first board in mid-December
- Egger raised group revenues again despite lower production volumes
- Egger already planning to make first investments in Markt Bibart mill
Surfaces
- Added capacity in new markets leads to shift in decor paper production
- Recovery of global decor paper markets will take longer than originally expected
- DuraSorb production in North Charleston finally phased out by end of August
- Interprint expands site in Pittsfield and adds new printing plant in Gebze
- Schattdecor orders a printing/lacquering system for its Tarnowo Podgórne site
- Lamigraf commissions new printing machine at its Spanish headquarters
Furniture
- German furniture industry to brace itself for further declines in second half-year
- Germany: online furniture sales declined by 13.3% in second quarter
- After weak holiday period, furniture sector fears further slowing down in autumn
- Blum concludes financial year 2022/2023 with double-digit turnover decline
- US Furniture manufacturer Klaussner discontinued all activities in August
- Vivonio Furniture Group to close both Maja furniture factories by end of year
Flooring
- European parquet production fell nearly twice as much as parquet consumption
- Import surplus on European parquet markets rose to 13.2m m² in 2022
- European market share of Chinese parquet producers rose above 25%
- MMFA members saw their total sales decrease more and more last year
- I4F Licensing relocates headquarters to new technology centre in Turnhout
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