The European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD) will provide the Swedish company IKEA with a USD 100
million debt facility consisting of up to four loans to finance land
acquisition and construction of MEGA shopping centres in Ukraine.
According to EBRD, MEGA Shopping Centres...
In January-September 2007 producers prices for wood products in Ukraine rose 11.1%, Ukrainstat reported. Producers prices for pulp-and-paper production in Ukraine rose in the period by 1 7%.Lesprom.ru
Head of the Polish company Flyderer that is specialized on the wood
processing and corresponding production has made a decision about the
construction of a big woodworking plant in Ukraine. That was the agenda
during the visit of a Ukrainian manger of Flyderer Yuriy Novosad to
Kahrkov....
Russia’s Economic
Development Ministry and Industry and Energy Ministry submitted to the
cabinet for approval a draft ruling specifying criteria for choosing
top-priority investment projects for woods’ development. Contrary to hopes of timber majors, the draft spells out no customs...
A vigorous market for sawn wood in Norway will result in price
increases for saw timber. Since the turn of the year there have been
two price increases totalling 120 NOK (15 €) per cubic metre.
There are strong indications that the trend of decreasing real prices
for...
Czech wood output rose by 14 percent to 17.68
million cubic metres last year, the highest amount since 1946, according to
data the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) provided to CTK.
The Agriculture Ministry said the record-high figure was a result of a high
demand on the market for raw wood....
The Ligna+ in Hanover which finished May
18th is not only remarkable for the increase in visitors and
exhibitors. Characteristic of this years´ world leading trade fair of
the forest industry were the unusually high number of real sales being
made. Quite a few factory owners gave...
Timber trade in Finland is now at record level. Good prices and
intense demand have boosted timber trade in the course of the spring.
The forecast at the beginning of the year was that commercial felling
in private forests would amount to about 47 million m3. However,...
Ruukki
Group Oyj Company Announcement Ruukki Group Plc has agreed on the
possibility to expand the mill investments in Kostroma, RussiaIn
February 2007, Ruukki Group Plc announced that it had registered
investment agreements concerning a sawmill and a chemi-mechanical
market pulp factory...
The Member States of the European Union
adopted on Monday the European Commission proposal to repeal the so
called “knots in the wood” Directive 68/89/EEC. It regulated the
quality and size of wood in the rough in detail at EU level. In the
future it will be up to standardisation...
