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Delving into the WBPI archive, we look at some of the issues and news affecting the timber trade in previous decades
ACIMALL THREATENS DISCIPLINARY ACTION FOR MEMBERS ATTENDING RIVAL SHOW The Italian woodworking machinery association, Acimall, says it is considering enforcement action against member companies who attend the new woodworking machinery show, Technodomus, in Rimini (April 2012) instead of its own long-established Xylexpo in Milan (May 2012). Acimall’s general assembly entrusted its board to study and enforce possible disciplinary measures against any member company that attends shows which “compete directly and explicitly with Xylexpo”, considering such behaviour “non-compliant with the regulations of the Acimall statute”.
“The assembly does not want to limit the freedom of choice of each
company, but give a clear message to fight the more and more frequent short-sighted initiatives that inevitably weaken the image of our industry, with consequences that, in the medium term, will bring serious damage to the entire industry if not promptly and strongly opposed,” said Acimall president Ambrogio Delachi. He said Acimall’s stance was supported by all European associations
of woodworking machinery manufacturers which, through Eumabois, have declared their intention to exclusively attend Xylexpo 2012.
HORNITEX BUYS IN EAST GERMANY Hornitex has bought the largest chipboard producer in former East Germany – enabling it to significantly boost its chipboard production. Germany-based Hornitex signed a deal at the beginning of the month with Treuhandanstalt – the body set up to supervise the sale of eastern German industries – for the sale of the former state-owned chipboard plant at Beeskow, Brandenburg. Hornitex’s current chipboard production of 1.3 million m3
increase by a substantial but undisclosed amount. Despite the Beeskow plant being one of the most modern in
eastern Germany, Hornitex is to spend DM150m (£50m) on upgrading it to western standards, including dramatically reducing the environmental pollution caused by the plant. Hornitex hopes that Beeskow, which will bring its total number of production sites to four, will act as a springboard for the growing market in eastern Germany. A spokesperson for the company said that the market was “ripe for an expansion of chipboard demand.”
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BRAZIL OSB FORGES AHEAD Brazil’s first OSB production plant, being constructed by Masisa do Brasil SA, is due to start up early in December, some two months earlier than the scheduled date. The early launch of this 350,000m3
per year Dieffenbacher
line at the Chilean-owned firm’s Brazilian panel complex in Ponta Grossa, Paraná, maintains the record set by Masisa with its 240,000m3
will
per year MDF line started up there a year before. That line began producing panels in December 2000, three months prior to its planned launch date, pointed out Andrés Armstrong, marketing director of Masisa do Brasil, a subsidiary of Latin America’s top panel maker, Santiago-based Masisa SA. The new OSB line, the group’s
first venture into production of this panel, is targeting the potentially huge heavy duty automotive and engineering packaging, construction panels and furniture markets in Brazil. There, OSB will take on traditional plywood in the marketplace. Currently, supported by a small
level of imported product, the Brazilian market is absorbing between 5,000 to 7,000m3 month of OSB.
per 2001
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