Price for particleboard exported from China increased 10%.
Wooden Panels
Former CEO Hicham Abel departs; currently Chief Restructuring Officer to lead management board.
Forest-product shipments weaken as U.S. and Canada move closer to a broader trade conflict.
Prices rose 6.0% from June and remained up 12.0% from a year earlier; Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 12.4% year over year.
Price for OSB exported from Norway rose marginally 0.7%.
Higher lumber deliveries lifted sales, while high wood and logistics costs and weak chipboard demand reduced earnings.
The Khao Yoi line uses one zigzag sifter and dryer discharge conveyor to process rubberwood without reducing capacity.
Sawmilling producer prices remained below year-earlier levels, while wood-panel and parquet producer prices increased on both monthly and annual comparisons.
Compared with the previous month, production was up 3%.
Price for MDF panels exported from Turkey fell marginally 0.9%.
Price for OSB exported from Canada fell marginally 0.3%.
Exports of MDF panels from the U.S. to Mexico rose 1.6%.
Price for OSB imported to the U.S. declined only 0.2%.
Second-quarter sales rose despite weaker housing starts, while the company expects affordability pressures, volatile pricing and subdued residential construction to continue influencing operations.
Price for particleboard exported from Turkey rose 1.6%.
Higher lumber volumes and western log realizations helped counter transportation, fuel, freight and resin cost pressures.
The company maintains lumber and panel shipment targets while continuing sawmill optimization, production improvements and capacity consolidation.
Price for particleboard exported from Thailand contracted 20%.
Price for MDF panels exported from Thailand rose 4%.
Prices were up 6.8% from a year earlier while Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 12.4% year over year.