All articles by Asha Sankanna
Asha Sankanna
Metsä integrates maintenance operations of ply and Kerto LVL mills
Metsä Group is to integrate maintenance operations of its plywood and Kerto LVL mills as part of its own organisation.
Raute signs service agreement with Paged Eesti
Raute Corporation has signed a service agreement with Paged Eesti OÜ, Estonia, part of Paged Group, covering full maintenance responsibility of the production machinery including consumables, spare parts, and small upgrades. The maintenance team, 19 people from Paged Eesti, is transferred to Raute services team.
Making the nucleus dance with NMR
Carlo Kupfernagel, a PhD student at the BioComposites Centre at Bangor University in Wales, explains NMR spectroscopy
US Market Movements
High interest rates have been a factor weighing on the US housing market, a key sector for the North American wood-based panels industry. But despite challenges, economic forecasters predict a soft landing for the US economy. Stephen Powney reports
Markets See Downward Swing
Reduced demand and a generally difficult market situation has added pressure for manufacturers of particleboard. Stephen Powney looks at markets and mill investments in this Part One Focus on Particleboard report, looking at Europe and North America
IMAL PAL Group Opens New Lab
For our Part 2 Focus on Italy report, we interview IMAL PAL Group – the wood-based panels technology supplier based in Modena. Stephen Powney spoke to group managing director Loris Zanasi
Proactive customer service
Wood-based panels production technology manufacturer Dieffenbacher has now had an operational presence in the US for 11 years. The company provides this update on the development of its US subsidiary.
IPPS innovation focus
The International Panel Products Symposium (IPPS) in Wales covers a wide field of research papers involving wood composites. This year’s event, attended by WBPI’s Stephen Powney, saw wood scientists from across the world share their latest findings.
Ireland bound
Geoff Rhodes, independent consultant and former long-serving marketing and sales director at MEDITE looks back 40 years to Medford Corporation’s multi-million dollar investment in the Clonmel factory
Becoming circular with recover
Unilin Panels is finding ways to bring waste wood back into the loop through its wood takeback programme, Recover.