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Wood Based Panels International is the leading news, research, information and data resource for wood based panel manufacturers, panel making equipment and service suppliers, importers, exporters and distributors of wood based panels. It provides the most comprehensive global directory of suppliers to the wood based panel industry

BREAKING NEWS 
LP meets potential UK distributors
Published:  01 July, 2009

Louisiana-Pacific (LP) has met four potential UK wholesale distributors to represent its SolidStart engineered wood products.

BREAKING NEWS 
Robert B Pamplin
Published:  01 July, 2009

Robert B Pamplin Jr, 97, the former chairman of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, has died after a long illness.

BREAKING NEWS 
Top forest products feel heat
Published:  01 July, 2009

The world’s top 100 forest product companies saw their net income plummet from US$13.8bn in 2007 to record losses of US$8bn last year, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.

BREAKING NEWS 
Top two Brazilian forest product companies to merge
Published:  29 June, 2009

Two leading Brazilian forest products companies are set to
merge creating what is claimed will be the biggest panel
manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere.

BREAKING NEWS 
'Better by Far' website from Norbord
Published:  29 June, 2009

Norbord has launched a new website showing how its engineered wood based panels are said to be ‘Better by Far’ for the environment.

BREAKING NEWS 
Survey and Deutsche Messe abandon cooperation
Published:  26 June, 2009

Trade fair organisers Survey marketing GmbH and Deutsche Messe AG are no longer to be partners in staging the planned machinery trade fair to run parallel to ZOW Istanbul.

BREAKING NEWS 
Masisa launches first MDP in Brazil
Published:  24 June, 2009

South America's leading wood panel maker Masisa SA has successfully launched its first medium density particleboard line in Brazil.

BREAKING NEWS 
Flakeboard’s SC plant receives certification
Published:  24 June, 2009

Flakeboard’s Bennettsville, South Carolina particleboard plant has been certified by the SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance to FSC Chain-of-Custody and Controlled Wood Standards SW-COC-000444.

BREAKING NEWS 
LP business picking up
Published:  24 June, 2009

American lumber panels and engineered wood producer Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) saw its losses narrow in the first quarter and expects activity to increase in the remainder of the year.

BREAKING NEWS 
European parquet output falls 15.5%
Published:  24 June, 2009

European parquet production fell 15.5% in 2008 to 84.7 million m2, according to new figures.

BREAKING NEWS 
Beetle pest fear in Galloway
Published:  24 June, 2009

Forest and woodland owners in the Galloway area are being urged to be on the look out for the great spruce bark beetle following the first discovery of the insect pest in Scotland at Forestry Commission Scotland’s (FCS) Merton Hall woodland near Newton Stewart.

BREAKING NEWS 
Pfleiderer to hold discussions with banks
Published:  24 June, 2009

Wood based panels manufacturer Pfleiderer will start financing discussions with its banks after warning of a significant fall in earnings.

BREAKING NEWS 
US housing starts increase
Published:  24 June, 2009

New home starts in the US increased in May, giving economists hope that the worst of the construction recession is in the past.

BREAKING NEWS 
Interzum did reasonably well
Published:  17 June, 2009

With only 47,000 visitors, Interzum 2009 in Cologne failed to reach the goal of 50,000 visitors for this 50th anniversary event. The share of international visitors was 65% compared to 70% expected. There were 1,300 exhibitors from 63 countries.

BREAKING NEWS 
US laminate sales trends
Published:  17 June, 2009

Sales of decorative laminates in the US are forecast to reverse their downward trend and increase 2.1% per year to over 12 billion ft2 in 2013, valued at US$7.4bn.

BREAKING NEWS 
TTF elects Martin Gale
Published:  17 June, 2009

The Timber Trade Federation (TTF) has elected Martin Gale CBE as its new vice president with a mandate to help guide the TTF through the current recession. Mr Gale will become president in 2010 when incumbent Kevin Hayes’ tenure comes to an end.

BREAKING NEWS 
Raute prepares for further layoffs
Published:  12 June, 2009

Raute Corporation has completed negotiations about additional temporary layoffs affecting some 140 hourly workers at its Nastola location.

BREAKING NEWS 
UPM to streamline new operation
Published:  12 June, 2009

UPM opened a new production line at its Kalso veneer mill in Kouvola, Finland and immediately began negotiations to go on to short working.

BREAKING NEWS 
WBPI launches Wood Based Panels Buyers Guide
Published:  12 June, 2009

Wood Based Panels International, the leading print and online resource for the wood based panels and panel equipment industry, has launched its Wood Based Panels Buyers Guide, the most comprehensive directory of manufacturers, distributors and suppliers in the wood based panels industry.

BREAKING NEWS 
George Whelan
Published:  16 June, 2009

It is with regret that we report that George Whelan, at the young age of 45, died on May 27. Mr Whelan was technical director of SmartPLY Europe Ltd.

BREAKING NEWS 
Third melamine press for Flakeboard
Published:  16 June, 2009

Flakeboard is to install its third new melamine press at its Duraflake particleboard plant located in Albany, Oregon.

BREAKING NEWS 
Breakthrough in digital printing technology
Published:  16 June, 2009

Decor printer Interprint GmbH, Arnsberg, Germany and MDC Max Daetwyler AG, Bleienbach, Switzerland have founded a joint venture company with the objective of developing and marketing a new, cost-saving digital printing method. The name of the joint venture company, as registered in Switzerland, is DI Projekt AG.

BREAKING NEWS 
China fair
Published:  10 June, 2009

The sixth China International Wood & Wood Products Expo will be held at the China International Exhibition Center (CIEC), Beijing, from October 22-24, 2009. www.woodchina.org

BREAKING NEWS 
China decentralises wood panel permit approvals
Published:  10 June, 2009

China has decentralised the permit approval process for wood based panel production plants, according to the latest International Tropical Timber Organisation market report.

BREAKING NEWS 
Breakthrough in non-toxic rot-free MDF
Published:  10 June, 2009

Titan Wood (part of Accsys Technologies plc) and MDF manufacturer Medite Europe Ltd have signed a joint development agreement to create an economically viable, non-toxic and stable MDF panel made from Titan Wood’s Tricoya wood elements (‘Licensed Products’).

BREAKING NEWS 
Metso and UPM develop biomass-based bio-oil production
Published:  08 June, 2009

Metso and UPM have developed a new concept for the production of biomass-based bio-oil to replace fossil fuels in heating and power generation. Test production began at Metso’s test plant in Tampere, Finland, in June.

BREAKING NEWS 
Metsäliitto and Vapo examine biofuel venture
Published:  08 June, 2009

A wood based biofuels project in the Baltic Sea region is being explored by the Metsäliitto Group and Vapo.

BREAKING NEWS 
ZOW Zaragoza postponed
Published:  08 June, 2009

ZOW supplier fair which was to be held in Zaragoza, Spain has been postponed until May 2010. Organiser Survey SL decided to cancel [just 10 days before it was due to open] as it said it had a responsibility as regards both the exhibitors’ costs and the visitors’ expenditure in the current economic climate.

BREAKING NEWS 
Pergo in Berlin
Published:  08 June, 2009

Pfleiderer subsidiary Pergo – a leading producer of laminate flooring – has just opened a competence centre (providing a creative studio area, and customer training, etc) in Berlin. This is the fourth centre Pergo has opened in Europe.

BREAKING NEWS 
Demand for Malaysia’s wood based exports expected
Published:  03 June, 2009

Malaysia’s wood based industry is expected to achieve an export value of over RM20bn (US$525bn) this year despite the global economic slowdown.

BREAKING NEWS 
Largest MDF project in India
Published:  03 June, 2009

Greenply Industries Ltd, manufacturers of plywood, high pressure laminates and decorative veneers, accounts for 25% of plywood and 15% of the laminates market in India.

BREAKING NEWS 
Fire damage
Published:  03 June, 2009

A massive fire has ripped through a truss and beam manufacturer in Chehalis Washington causing damage at about US$15m. There were no injuries to any of the 15 employees.

BREAKING NEWS 
First large scale OSB line in China
Published:  03 June, 2009

Hubei Baoyuan Wood Industry is to install what is described as the first large scale OSB line in China. Pallmann will supply engineering equipment electrical control systems and service for the green end of the OSB line.

BREAKING NEWS 
Russian wood processing companies stop production
Published:  01 June, 2009

Due to poor export and domestic markets, a number of Russian wood processing companies stopped production and shipping in late 2008 and January-February 2009, which has resulted in a considerable decrease in production companies according to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development.

BREAKING NEWS 
Raute expands its scope to cutting tools
Published:  03 June, 2009

In order to improve its service performance to its customers Raute Corporation has started cooperation with the Slovenian knife manufacturer Ravne Knives.

BREAKING NEWS 
Japanese log imports fell 34% in 2007
Published:  01 June, 2009

Japan is the second largest importer of logs in the world after China and for many years sawmills in the country have been very dependent on the importation of saw logs for their wood raw-material needs, relying on 35% foreign logs in 2008, reports Wood Resource Quarterly.

BREAKING NEWS 
Siempelkamp expands product portfolio by acquiring Hombak
Published:  28 May, 2009

Effective last month (June 2), Hombak Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH, Bad Kreuznach, Germany, now belongs to Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, Krefeld.

BREAKING NEWS 
Finsa gains panel certification
Published:  28 May, 2009

Finsa UK has been active on the certification front recently, gaining accreditation for plywood, particleboard and MDF.

BREAKING NEWS 
First OSB line for Asia
Published:  26 May, 2009

At the Ligna exhibition on Tuesday, May19, Dieffenbacher GmbH announced it had signed a contract on May 9 for the supply of the main equipment package for the first continuous OSB line in Asia.

BREAKING NEWS 
Vits back out of receivership
Published:  26 May, 2009

Following the insolvency and receivership of paper impregnation line manufacturer Vits Systems GmbH on March 26, 2009, the company was bought out of receivership on May 20th 2009.

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