The World Bank is "inclined to agree" with the forecast of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry regarding the growth of Russian GDP in 2002 (4%). The World Bank states this in its report about Russia's economy published in October. According to experts of the bank, in accordance...
Timber giant Gunns Ltd yesterday refused to comment on the Kingborough Council decision to prosecute the company for illegally clearfelling a coupe at Middleton. In a brief statement, Gunns executive chairman John Gay said he "was not yet fully informed about the council's resolution"....
Weaker lumber prices and US duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports took their toll on forest product companies Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi-Consolidated in the third quarter. However, both companies signalled a better outlook for some paper products. Weyerhaeuser — based in the US but...
The organizers:
Kiev City State Administration
Kiev International Contract Fair
Ukrainian Association of Furniture Manufacturers
Furniture Technologies
Venue:
Kiev Palace of sport (Sportivnaya Sq., 1)
Tematic units of the exhibition:
*MATERIALS FOR MANUFACTURE OF FURNITURE...
Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's leading lumber producer, yesterday posted a 86% drop in third-quarter earnings and warned of more hard times ahead for its wood products business as a result of low prices and the impact of U.S. softwood duties. "The fourth-quarter earnings outlook remains very...
The forest products giant Weyerhaeuser said yesterday that third-quarter earnings fell 86 percent because of low wood prices, duties on imports of Canadian softwood lumber and merger-related charges. The company, based in Federal Way, Wash., reported a profit including one-time items of $13...
The town administration in Paldiski, Estonia, is threatening to bankrupt a wood-processing plant owned by the TKE Group after it pays 1 million kroons (63,900 euros) in back wages to the plant's workers.
Jaan Molder, acting mayor of Paldiski, said that the town would start bankruptcy...
Timber landowners from North and South Carolina filed a class action lawsuit in federal court Thursday against International Paper and one of its suppliers, charging widespread price fixing of pulpwood timber that they say has cost them and other landowners millions of dollars.
The lawsuit...
An exclusive industrial complex for Korean companies will be set up in Dandong, China, just across the Yalu River from North Korea newly designated Shinuiju Special Administrative Region.
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) said yesterday that the Korea Industrial...
