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Unilin Group to acquire Panneaux de Corrèze
Unilin Group has announced the anticipated acquisition of Panneaux de Corrèze.
The acquisition is part of Unilin Group’s strategic growth ambitions and allows its Unilin Panels division to better serve the French market. Panneaux de Corrèze is the MDF
market leader in France and produces approximately 150,000m3
of raw MDF
panels. Its production plant is located in Corrèze, in the centre of France, and it has 110 employees.
The panel division of Unilin Group, Unilin Panels, is a European market leader. It has one other MDF panels production plant in France in Bazeilles. This acquisition will increase the company’s
MDF panels production capacity and strengthen its position in France. All Panneaux de Corrèze employees will be joining the Unilin Group and the existing structures are maintained. The current Panneaux de Corrèze management will stay in place to help steer the integration in the right direction. “Unilin Panels aims to achieve 25% growth by 2025, said Veronique Hoflack, president of Unilin Panel. “We want to become the market leader in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. “With the acquisition of Panneaux de Corrèze, we will offer our customers in France an even wider range of new product innovations and will improve our service even further.”
Metsä Wood develops hybrid sandwich wall element
Above: Hybrid sandwich wall element installation at the Rauma mill
Metsä Wood and its partners have designed a hybrid sandwich wall element, which they say will renew offsite construction. The innovation combines concrete with Kerto LVL. The lighter weight of the hybrid sandwich wall elements proved to be a valuable benefit in the first construction project at Metsä Fibre’s Rauma sawmill. Skanska, the constructor of Metsä Fibre’s
new Rauma sawmill, has set up ambitious goals for itself as it aims to be carbon neutral globally by 2045. This has led the company to provide low-carbon or carbon neutral life-time solutions to its customers. The production of the new hybrid sandwich wall elements, which are used in the sawmill’s log sorting building, went as planned at the precast element manufacturer Lipa-Betoni’s factory. This is the first time the factory produced hybrid wall elements.
In the production of a hybrid sandwich wall element, a Kerto LVL panel forms the load-bearing core. This is followed by an insulation layer and reinforced concrete facade.
The installation of the hybrid sandwich wall elements for the first floor – 100m2
of the building took five hours. The sawmill is expected to be ready in Q3 2022.
Clarifications needed on forest strategy
“The new EU Forest Strategy for 2030 needs clear objectives and feasible coherent actions” was the message of forest owners and managers to the EU policy makers at the European Forest Owners’ Conference. The conference, which took place in Vienna in October, brought together European and national forest owners’ organisations, state forest organisations
and MEPs to discuss the new EU Forest Strategy. During the conference CEPF, EUSTAFOR, Copa-Cogeca, ELO, USSE and FECOF presented a joint position paper explaining the main reasons why European forest owners and managers are deeply worried about the strategy and deem it inadequate and highlighted necessary action plans.
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Stora Enso has joined the EU-funded Build-in-Wood project, which strives to make wood a natural choice for the construction of multi-storey buildings and improve the sustainability of the sector. The project consortium includes over 20
key European and international players from the building industry value chain. “For Stora Enso, joining the consortium benefits our brand, potentially generates new leads, and we can also ensure the alignment to our own product portfolio,” said Johanna Kairi, business development manager in wood products. For more details, visit:
https://www.build-in-wood.eu/
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International wood manifesto published The European Confederation of the
Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois) and the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) launched a joint international wood manifesto prior to COP26.
The ‘Growing our low-carbon future: time for timber international wood manifesto’, making the case to politicians for a much greater use of wood in both construction and renovation, launched on October 28 on the eve of the COP26 in Glasgow. The manifesto, which is aimed at helping preventing climate breakdown, is a collaboration between the European wood industries and their colleagues in Canada, the US, New Zealand and Australia. “Wood is the only sustainable structural material that grows worldwide which can enable a substantial decarbonisation of the built environment based on existing business models and proven technology; providing vast carbon sinks in our rural areas and carbon stores in our cities,” said Sampsa Auvinen, chair of CEI-Bois. “A significant number of life cycle assessment studies have concluded that wood is a climate-friendly alternative compared to other building materials because not only is its production less carbon-intensive but it also locks up carbon for a long time,” added Herbert Joebstl, EOS president. “Building with wood is one part of a sustainable forest sector growth strategy that can help the building sector reduce its carbon footprint.”
Stora Enso joins the European Build-in- Wood project
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