Over the coming weeks this website will be completely rebuilt to improve the information we offer you and the way in which it is presented, making the site even more user-friendly. We will incorporate additional functionality and give access to all the extensive data that the WBPI resourses have to offer. It will also be more personalised and interactive to give you an unrivalled source of information about many and varied aspects of the panel industry.

At the same time we will retain all the excellent features of the existing website, including of course the very useful and easy-to-use archive section dating back to yhe beginning of 2000.

Welcome to wbpionine.com, the web-site of the leading journal for the wood based panels industry. we cover all the latest news from the UK and around the world, plus in-depth features on the market and technical developments, individal businesses, personalities and industry opinion.

Although the site is monitored and updated regularly, we are currently showing news nd information up to and including the April/May 2008 issue. The lastest news and information can only be added as and when it happens. Inevitably there will be weeks with no activity and no changes. However, we suggest you return weekly to this site and check on the current state of play in the market, because if something important is happening it will be on wbpionline.

The next major update will take place in June/July, when we add the June/July 2008 issue of Wood Based Panels. Included in ths update will be MDF World Survey Part 1, Focus on China Part 1, Focus on North America and Surfacing.

As always, there will be plenty of news and other features in this issue as well.

Please note that the archive of issues goes back to December/January 2000.