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Resination 10 December, 2008 All the patience and efforts in developing its mechanical fibre resination system have paid off with outstanding results, says Imal,
headquartered in San Domaso, Modena, Italy. It says that...

All change in China? 10 December, 2008 The awesome growth in Chinese panel consumption and production since the beginning of the century seemed a year ago to be uninterruptable. Total consumption (domestic plus exports) of all types of...

Not just panels 06 October, 2008 The Austrian company known today as FunderMax owes its origins to two long-established companies, namely Funder and Isovolta.
Funder was a family business which started around 1900 with...

Kronospan goes green 06 October, 2008 Kronospan has decided it is time to emphasise what it says are its worldwide milestones of environmental achievement in wood based panel products.
The company says it has for some time adhered...

A clean screen 06 October, 2008 In order to facilitate the use of recycled wood as a raw material for its particleboard production, Gruppo Trombini has installed a ClassiCleaner screening and cleaning system from...

Representing the plywood industry 31 December, 2005

As reported in WBPI’s August/September issue, the European Federation of the Plywood Industry (FEIC) held its annual meeting alongside that of the European Panel Federation (EPF) in Riga, Latvia...

Formaldehyde – The big issue 25 May, 2005

In June of last year, the IARC (International Agency for Research into Cancer) upgraded its classification of formaldehyde from a ‘probable’ to a ‘confirmed’ human carcinogen. This decision was...

No level playing field for plywood 05 May, 2005

By his own admission,  Wei Zhang is no expert in plywood production. A resident of Jiangsu Province for all of his 56 years, the burly Mr Zhang (a pseudo- nym used at Mr Zhang’s request for this...

China plywood is still booming 21 March, 2005

To say that the Chinese plywood industry is booming is, like much written about China, a gross understatement. According to official Chinese data sources, plywood production in China leaped 85%...

Putting plywood bonds to the test 05 January, 2005

Following the publication of the European standard EN 314: Glue bond quality test and evaluation in 1993, there was evidence of huge variations between laboratories and operators in the visual...

Answers to bond quality 01 March, 2004

German company GreCon says that often questions like “What is bond quality?and “Is there a correlation between bond quality and internal bond?are asked.
While appreciating that a wood based...

Radiata goes to LVL 22 February, 2004

Before embarking on its new venture in the production of LVL, Nelson Pine Industries Ltd sent radiata pine peeler logs to Japan for peeling and structural property evaluation to determine the...

A smart response 22 February, 2004

Founded in 1908 in Finland, Raute has always specialised in the peeling of logs to produce veneer, originally for the plywood industry. Over the years, that business has become more challenging...

Big plans for a big site 05 January, 2004

It is September 17, 2002 and the priest of Egorievsk is formally consecrating the ground on which the newly formed company OOO Kronospan will build the first phase of its panel manufacturing and...

Continuous pressing: changing the face of panel production 22 October, 2003

In 1952 the English-based company, Bartrev, developed a continuous press with rotating hot platens, of which seven were manufactured in all. This concept failed to become a commercial success,...

Riding out recession 22 October, 2003

In hindsight, Masisa SA could not have picked a worse moment in late 2001 to start up a second MDF production line of 120,000m3/year in Argentina.
The Chilean panel maker originally...

Metro steps out of the fire 22 October, 2003

Recent technology has improved the guard around the heart of the line – the press – in the panel industry, an industry which requires cost-effective and flexible production for high...

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