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*Italian woodworking machinery shows powerful rebound *China's wood deficit creates opportunities *China timber and wood products show *Chris Sutton appointed to TTA *Flakeboard hires Darrell Keeling *ZOW Germany is looking good *Congress weighs in against EPA rule *IPPS Master Class 2010 *Egger installs Steinemann sander *From particleboard plants to combi-plants *New centre for wood based composite materials *Siempelkamp expertise for Vietnamese joint venture *Strong growth from Coveright *Suvi Anttila joins Indufor *Ligna and Interzum collaborate *German wood machinery sales recover *Industry spectrum at APA meeting *Australian distributor for Steinemann *Egger resumes growth strategy after 33% profits rise *Boise instals US$11m plywood dryer *Brazilian plywood exports rise *UPM stages strong recovery *VRG orders largest MDF plant in Asia *LP's sales up 67% in Q2 *Canfor shows improved results *American Wood Council becomes independent *Duty-free plywood quota exhausted *Atcon Plywood receiver hopeful of offers *OSB plant fire damage runs into six figures *Biesse reports 61% order increase *Improved panel demand boosts Plum Creek *Interzum bookings strong *Interprint acquires 100% of Coveright Russia *Norbord in final phase of £25m Cowie investment *Australasia's role in forest industry *US MDF imports run counter to trends *Southern US to become major biomass exporter *Particleboard plant for VMG Industries *Swedspan celebrates investment in Poland *International convention in Geneva *Garnica officially opens plywood factory *Norbord buoyed by OSB demand *Patented green veneer moisture measuring system
Archives » 2001 » April to May 2001
  • Marathon run
    Published:  10 January, 2002
    Nearly 86 million cubic metres. That is the figure we have come up with for world particleboard manufacturing capacity at the end of part ll of our marathon survey. We are by no means saying that is the definitive figure, but it is a start in trying to establish the first realistic catalogue of the world's mills and their capacities.

  • Another milestone
    Published:  11 September, 2001
    It seems the MDF industry is always approaching another capacity milestone, and in part ll of our survey of world mills, we find global capacity will be nudging 30 million m³ by early next year. John Wadsworth again received an excellent response to his survey and one particularly interesting result this time was a significant increase in information about the number of MDF mills in China.

  • Wood supply and market concerns
    There was a little more room in the aisles at the 29th annual Wood Technology Clinic & Show held in March in Portland's sprawling Oregon Convention Center. Bill Keil reports on some of the machinery and papers presented
    Published:  18 May, 2001
    The North American economic dip probably contributed to a somewhat decreased attendance in Portland, Oregon at this year's annual Wood Technology Clinic & Show. The US stock market plunged that week, imitating the recent trend in forest product prices. Other markets fell into line. Yet many of the nearly 400 exhibitors were cautiously optimistic. Their investment in exhibiting heavy machines showed faith. And the centre's hallmark twin glass towers remained unscathed by a recent earthquake.

  • It's show time!
    Published:  18 April, 2001
    We are in an odd-numbered year so it must be time for the big biennial exhibitions, Ligna and Interzum. Chronologically, the first is Interzum, the exhibition for the value adding sector, in Cologne. For the past five years, this event has had growing competition from the annual ZOW exhibition, held in north Germany's furniture heartland every February. While ZOW is a far smaller event than Interzum, some consider it more user-friendly, focused and better timed for choosing furniture designs for the new season.