The Board and General Assembly of the European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) have decided to end cooperation with the EPAL CEO, Martin Leibrandt. He left EPAL after more than 6 years on 30/06/2018. The EPAL Board will decide on a successor in due course. Until then the President, Robert Holliger,…
In May 2018, the producer prices for commercial wood products continued to rise slightly in Germany. Almost half of the figures are unchanged compared to April, only wood chips and pellets have fallen slightly. In comparison with the same month of the previous year, the construction-related wood products values in particular have increased…
The German Association of Wood Packaging, Pallets and Export Packaging (HPE) price index shows that solid wood and wood-based materials for the production of pallets and wood packaging continued to increase. Apart from OSB, all price indices have reached new highs. The index for solid wood for wooden packaging is now at an all-time…
Universal Forest Products announced that one of its subsidiaries has closed on the purchase of the operating assets of North American Container Corp. (NACC), a Marietta, Ga.-based manufacturer of structural packaging products. The previously announced acquisition expands Universal’s capabilities and market opportunities by adding steel, corrugated and hardwood packaging to…
In April 2018, almost all listed product categories are more expensive than in the same month of the previous year. The biggest price increases could be noticed for particleboard, followed by wide and narrow boards as well as planed and finger-sawn softwood lumber. As the only product category, laminated particleboards’ price…
Eighteen months of success for Salvamac, it has been an intense period, which confirmed that Salvador, in San Vendemiano, has made a good decision when setting up this new manufacturing unit in Poland to produce high quality “entry level” cross-cutting saws, the first step of a much more ambitious program….
2018-05-24 In the last 20 years, we have never seen an international market so fermenting for raw materials and wood products. Pellets and biomasses are missing, the poplar logs are scarce, the birch plywood disappears, the hardwoods of the best qualities increase exponentially and the resinous wood finds richer markets….
In March 2018, all values listed in the German producer price index for wood products are higher than in the previous year. In the short-term comparison with February 2018, this only applies to a good half of the values. Nine of the 17 assortment values continued to rise from February to…
The 2018 edition of Xylexpo is going to be a milestone in the 50-year success story of the event: the area has been virtually sold out for a few weeks now and, with the addition of a fourth hall, the exhibition will get close to 35 thousand net square meters, a significant progress…
The European Parliament adopted legislation on waste and the circular economy setting ambitious recycling targets. According to the announcement, by 2025, at least 55% of municipal waste (from households and businesses) should be recycled, says the text, as agreed with Council of Ministers. The target will rise to 60% by 2030 and 65%…
