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Contents OCTOBER/NOVEMBER2021


NEWS


6 — Andritz receives orders for new German wood fibre insulation board line 7 — Latvijas Finieris reports strong demand for birch plywood 8 — Starwood orders Dieffenbacher MDF line for Inegol plant 9 — CPA survey reveals concerns over Covid vaccine mandate


FOCUS ON PARTICLEBOARD PART 1 – EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA 11 — In this first part of our two-part world survey of the industry, we list the active particleboard mills in Europe and North America and look at capacity growth in the sector


FOCUS ON ITALY 25 — IMAL PAL shares news of company developments and how equipment supply to the sector has progressed through the pandemic 28 — Pagnoni updates on its expertise in the realm of lamination of value- added wood-based panels 30 — CMC Texpan has been busy working on innovations and reports better market conditions this year 32 — Sanding technology specialist Imeas is branching out, with new developments in the engineered wood sector


PANEL PERSPECTIVES 35 — WBPI correspondent Geoff Rhodes reports on HONEXT, one of the latest propositions of panelboard products made using alternative materials 38 — Kronospan is planning a €120m MDF investment in Slovakia 40 — Our Russia correspondent Eugene Gerden gives an update on various panel sector investments in Russia


TECHNICALLY SPEAKING 43 — The BioComposite Centre’s Dr Morwenna Spear looks at the density profile of MDF


ARCHIVE 45 — A look back at some of WBPI’s content from the last three decades


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Focus on Particleboard: Part 1 Focus on Italy HONEXT


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