Year: 2019
Prices for wood packaging start to fall in Germany
Since the beginning of 2017, prices for sawn timber and wood-based panels in the German wood packaging sector have only been one direction: upwards. With the exception of OSB, all HPE price index values have reached new highs. OSB has shown the highest inflation rates and has well recovered from its fall…
Wood packaging: Conner Industries to open new plant in Tennessee
Conner Industries, Inc. announced that it will open a new manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tennessee on February 1, 2019. This latest expansion comes on the heels of strong first quarter growth for the company and is one of several new investments Conner has made in recent months. New equipment expenditures…
Where will the European timber industry get its skilled workers in the future?
On November 30, 2018, the European Timber Industry Association CEI Bois organized a seminar in Lisbon on the future of the wood industry in Europe. The 70 participants came from European associations and companies in the wood industry. The organizers were CEI Bois, as the European umbrella organization for the wood industry,…