Search Results: 'International Timber'

Buyers' birthday
15 December, 2001
The WWF 95+ Group, the first buyers' group in the world, celebrated its first decade in business last month.

Pickings remain too thin
01 December, 2001
Activity in the hardboard sector is reasonably healthy but there is a dwindling number of supply options for users

A precision turn from Selco
17 November, 2001
Investment in a Selco WNTR beam saw has significantly extended Matchboard's capacity and allowed the company to expand and diversify

Industry remains optimistic
17 November, 2001
With a decline in demand and increasing pressure on prices, the anticipated slowdown in Ireland's timber markets seems to be taking hold

Hard going for the US
17 November, 2001
The European market has been quiet in recent weeks, while in the US concerns about the economy have led mills to cut production by as much as a third

The waiting game
15 November, 2001
Builders merchants and timber companies have enjoyed good third-quarter results but the forecast for next year remains clouded by uncertainty

Confidence in a crisis
10 November, 2001
Delegates at the American Hardwood Export Council's ninth European Convention acknowledged current difficulties in the international market. But they also expressed confidence in the longer term for timber generally, and American hardwood in particular.

Exports fail to reach potential
10 November, 2001
The Russian government believes that forest certification and foreign investment are needed for the industry to fulfill its export potential

Taking the drama out of a crisis
10 November, 2001

Staying in the pink
03 November, 2001
Importers of Ghanaian hardwoods are facing a tightening supply situation. They would do well to cast their nets wider and consider some of the country's lesser-used species

Demand remains firm
03 November, 2001
Imports and Sweden's high level of production are making Norwegian forest owners nervous but this year's harvesting levels are expected to match those of last year

All quiet on the eastern front
03 November, 2001
Markets for Far East timber are becoming even quieter and there is little sign of a revival

Finnforest in Focus
27 October, 2001
The past year has seen Finnforest make major progress towards its goal of becoming Europe's mechanical wood market leader.

Ronseal trades places
20 October, 2001
Legislative pressure from the EU and shifting trends in the market have been a driving force behind Ronseal's efforts in recent years to develop a new strategy for the trade.

Prolonged bad weather dents Eleco profits
20 October, 2001

Working wood worldwide
13 October, 2001
Weinig's dual focus is solid wood machines and customers' needs. Mike Jeffree visited its base in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany

Fresh from the faculty
29 September, 2001
Tomas Juska: applying Libra values 'to create a better life in Lithuania'

The curate's market
22 September, 2001
As the US furniture industry faces increasing competition from imports, hardwood producers are cutting production and, in some cases, shutting down

Mutual respect
22 September, 2001

The International perspective
08 September, 2001
International Decorative Surfaces and International Timber are in bullish mood following a period of rapid development.