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Stay up to date with the latest country focus features from the global wood based panel industryGarnica group: 70 years in poplar
Garnica Plywood Group has its origins in a family sawmill which emerged in 1940 in Baños de Río Tobía in La Rioja, Spain, to process and sell the timber from beech and poplar plantations in that...
New cooperation on measuring emissions
With effect from November 2010, GreCon entered into a co-operative agreement with TimberTest of New Plymouth, New Zealand, to provide exclusive worldwide sales and service for the TimberTest...
Small beginnings led to large angular systems
The Holzma company produced the first horizontal panel saw, with the saw unit running underneath the saw table, back in 1967.
With the rapid growth in popularity of melamine faced...
Fashion conscious business goes digital
On the banks of the Wupper river outside the small rural town of Ennepetal in North Rhine-Westphalia stands the factory of the company known today as Sandvik Surface Solutions.
For...
Having started as an independent company and then spent a brief period as a subsidiary of Biesse of Italy, Schelling Anlagenbau returned to private ownership in 2003.
Wolfgang Rohner and...
Breaking down wood, building up technology
In common with the vast majority of machinery makers, Pallmann of Zweibrücken has been through a period of dramatically reduced order intake for its wood size-reduction machinery and MDF...
Steinemann Technology AG has two product lines for sanding, both of which comprise wide-belt sanders. They are Nova-H and Satos.
The former range come in widths of up to 1750mm for sanding...
Chilean panel maker is a major force in Brazil
Arauco do Brasil SA, an MDF and MDP (medium density particleboard) manufacturer with nearly 87,000ha of its own planted forest land and seven wood panel lines at three plants in the country, is...
Committed to thin panel and to value-adding
Specifically targeting powerful demand for thin board in the domestic market, the new 350,000m3/year Dieffenbacher HDF/MDF line, erected at Eucatex’s Salto site, could operate at full capacity...
The land of opportunity: Wood based panel Markets in South America
Global recovery from the depths of the Great Recession has been led by the developing world, particularly China, with full support from other parts of Asia and from South America.
China’s...
Compomade growing in valuable niche market
The furniture sector has benefited greatly from a much needed boost this year after the Brazilian government cut the country’s IPI industrial products tax by 5%. Panel...
Everything to play for in a growing market
With two new fibreboard plants ?– a 350,000m3/year thin MDF/HDF line and a 120,000m3/year standard MDF line – being brought on stream respectively by Eucatex and the newest...
‘Super-group’ benefits from its synergies
The ongoing integration process to form the new group, named Duratex SA, had already ?‘captured’ synergies valued at more than US$18.4m by early July 2010. The group says it is targeting...
Shengda Forestry is a privately owned company founded in 1997 to produce laminate flooring. In fact, the company claims to have...
Change of direction brings new MDF maker
Baoshan Corporation, headquartered in Long menshan Town, near Chengdu in Sichuan province, has a 30-year history in metal working, mainly in...
Thin board the key for Fuyang Huqian
This company began its life in panel production with a wetprocess hardboard production line in Chunan, Zhejiang Province, in...
On January 1 this year, Siempelkamp increased its shareholding in CMC Texpan from the existing 40% to 70%, gradually buying out the company’s president Dario...
Sunshine coast is home to success
Luca Zappetti, process engineer and project manager with Instalmec srl of San Giorgio di Nogaro, Udine, said that 2009 was a very good year for the company,...
Highest speed for Brazilian laminate
Established in 1974 close to its present home in Vigevano in Lombardy, Tocchio srl has a well-established global position in the manufacture of paper...
United companies to take on the world
The two constituent companies of the Imal Pal group had rather different experiences during the economic downturn.
While Pal srl of Ponte di Piave saw sales jump by 10% between...
