Italian woodworking machinery industry falls sharply due to lower exports
The orders for Italian woodworking machines and tools in Q2 2018 decreased 9.9% y-o-y due to orders [...]
August 16, 2018
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Vietnam: New wood pellet plant to produce 160.000 t/yr
Biomass Fuel Vietnam Co placed an order with Hekotek for a new complete plant of wooden pellets. According the announcement [...]
August 16, 2018
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Homag Group sees dropping incoming orders due to lower Chinese demand
In the first half of 2018 (1H-2018), the Homag Group recorded an increase in sales over the previous year [...]
August 14, 2018
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Pfeifer Group to invest EUR 100 million in German and Czech plants
By autumn 2020, the Pfeifer Group plans to massively expand existing and new production facilities in Chanovice, Schlitz and Lauterbach [...]
August 13, 2018
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Sonae Arauco to invest in a new particleboard plant in Germany
Sonae Arauco decided to invest in a new state-of-the-art particleboard plant at the company’s Beeskow site [...]
August 6, 2018
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Chinese wood products companies are facing considerable challenges in the US market
Data from China Customs shows that in 2017 total value of China’s wood products trade (imports and exports) rose [...]
August 2, 2018
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US imposes additional 25% tariffs on imports of Chinese woodworking machinery
As of July 6 machinery and related tools for wood processing as well as presses for the production of wooden [...]
July 24, 2018
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Trump administration to extend list of products subject to tariffs
Many wood products and furniture items from China are on the latest list by the Trump administration that may be [...]
July 18, 2018
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LIGNA 2019: More than 80 % of the exhibition space booked
While opening day is still about a year away, exhibition space at the world's leading trade fair for machinery [...]
July 17, 2018
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Valutec enters US market
Pleasant River Lumber of Maine, USA, is the first company in North America to invest in TC continuous kilns from [...]
July 12, 2018
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