Utilization is 1.1 points below a year earlier
Capacidade de produção
Training and testing are underway on sellable roof truss production runs at the new 42,000-square-foot automation facility.
The company identified high input costs, limited labor and housing availability, and sustained declines in pricing as factors behind the decision.
Solikamskbumprom is seeking $245 million from a Chinese company as more than 10 creditors pursue bankruptcy claims.
The projects will modernize the Los Ángeles remanufacturing plant and increase annual capacity at the Mulchén sawmill.
The Anderson County facility will make processed pine products for building and millwork applications.
The company plans to focus the Swedish site on sawn and planed goods production while supplying Nordic CLT customers from three other plants.
Mill closures have reduced pulpwood outlets, while weak housing and construction activity has reduced demand for hardwood products.
Closure removes 120,000 tons of annual capacity and affects approximately 90 workers.
The seven-year facility will provide liquidity as the lumber producer plans to restore two-shift operations.
Six-colour offset press added in Indianapolis; upgrades planned in Chicago and Naperville.
Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper plans boiler and chemical-plant upgrades expected to raise daily kraft production by 11% and increase its use of forest biomass.
The Ashland Sawmill project is expected to create and retain the equivalent of 220 permanent full-time jobs.
Production centralises to Oulu, Oulainen, and Kalajoki sawmills as log costs pressure profitability.
The Estonian mill will add and modernize veneer and plywood production lines, with start-up scheduled from autumn 2027.
The new facility at Kočevska Reka will process beech timber in batches ranging from six to 15 metres.
The mill will start at 80 million board feet annually and reach 108 million board feet at full capacity.
NPCE subsidiary in Hungary faced EV market slowdown and intensifying global competition.
The project will add prefabricated floors, roof panels and stairs to the company’s existing wall systems.
The planned closure will remove about 110 thousand m3 of annual lumber production.