Wooden
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‘World’s largest wooden city’ to be built Stockholm
Atrium Ljungberg announced Stockholm Wood City - the world's largest urban construction project in wood, where the first sod is planned to be turned in 2025 and the first buildings are expected to be completed in 2027. This ambitious project demonstrates Swedish sustainable innovation at its best.... Continue reading
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June 21, 2023
‘World’s largest wooden city’ to be built Stockholm
Atrium Ljungberg announced Stockholm Wood City - the world's largest urban construction project in wood, where the first sod is planned to be turned in 2025 and the first buildings are expected to be completed in 2027. This ambitious project demonstrates Swedish sustainable innovation at its best.... Continue reading
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May 11, 2018
Decline in US wooden furniture imports
US wooden furniture imports declined in February to under US$1.6 billion, but year-to-date imports remain higher than in February last year. The month-on-month decline was mainly in imports from China and Vietnam, but imports from most other suppliers (except Canada) were also down. Non-upholstered seating imports were unchanged from January, but imports of all other types of wooden furniture posted declined. Furniture and home furnishing retails sales rise first quarter The furniture and wood products manufacturing industries reported growth in March, according the Institute for Supply Management’s survey (Manufacturing ISM Report On Business). New furniture orders in January were up 2% over orders in January 2017, according to the Smith Leonard survey of U.S. residential furniture manufacturers and distributors. Furniture shipments in January were unchanged from the same... Continue reading
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February 9, 2018
350 meter wooden skyscrapper planned in Tokyo
Sumitomo Forestry (SFC) summarized the concept W350 plan to realize wooden high-rise building with a height of 350 meter. According to the announcement, the objective of the project is to realize an environmentally-friendly city made of high-rise buildings made of wood, transforming the town into forest. The conceptual plan was prepared mainly by Tsukuba Research Laboratory of the company’s R&D institute. It provides a road map to future technologies such as building construction method, environmentally conscious technology, development of trees that become used parts and resources, and widens the possibility of wooden buildings in future. This building is a wooden steel hybrid structure with 90% wood ratio. With the height of 350 meters, the building has 70 floors above ground. It consumes 185,000 m3 of wood. The project cost is around JPY 600 billion (around USD 5.5... Continue reading
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October 23, 2017
Russia chooses strategic partnership with China in wooden housing sector
Russia and China have recently discussed about a cooperation plan on wooden housing. Representatives of the Chinese government agencies showed their interest in the Russian's experience in wooden housing. "Wooden housing is a subject of interest to both Russia and China. We are united in our desire to provide our citizens with houses made with quality and sustainable materials. This cooperation can also provide more confident growth to the Far East timber industry," says Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation. China is one of Russia's key markets in terms of timber industry products' export potential. At the moment, the Russian-Chinese Program of Cooperation on forest resources development and usage is being carried out. At the Beijing exhibition, the Russian delegation presented technological solutions in the sphere of wooden... Continue reading
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April 18, 2018
China’s furniture imports at a record high
According to the China National Furniture Association the value of China’s furniture imports in 2017 rose 16% to US$3.052 billion, a record high for the past ten years. The cities accounting for the highest level of consumption of imported furniture were Shanghai, Guangdong, Beijing, Jiangsu and Tianjin. The value of furniture imports through Shanghai and Guangdong grew 35% and 17% respectively and these two account for over 50% of total national furniture imports. Analysts write that the driving force behind the rise in furniture imports was the significant growthin domestic furniture production costs. Prices for all inputs into furniture such as timber, steel, foam, leather, adhesives and hardware are continuing to rise. For example prices for foam skyrocketed 70% and prices for leather jumped 30% in 2017. Furthermore, logistic and labour costs have increased sharply and the... Continue reading
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June 21, 2023
‘World’s largest wooden city’ to be built Stockholm
Atrium Ljungberg announced Stockholm Wood City - the world's largest urban construction project in wood, where the first sod is planned to be turned in 2025 and the first buildings are expected to be completed in 2027. This ambitious project demonstrates Swedish sustainable innovation at its best.... Continue reading