USA – Leading specialty building products manufacturer Huber Engineered Woods LLC (HEW), a subsidiary of J.M. Huber Corporation, announced that, due to delays, it will no longer develop its new oriented strand board (OSB) facility in Cohasset, MN, as originally intended and announced in June 2021.
AUSTRIA – Sustainable management is a significant component of the Egger Group’s corporate behaviour.
ECUADOR – The value of Ecuadorian exports of particleboard (PB/MDP) reached USD 217.59 million in 2022.
BRAZIL – Eucatex signed a composition agreement with the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo (MPSP), the municipality of São Paulo and BTG Pactual Bank.
CANADA – Tolko Industries has commissioned Dieffenbacher to supply the core components of a OSB plant for its production facility in High Prairie, Alberta, Canada.
USA – Egger, a leading global manufacturer of wood-based panels, has acquired the business and assets of Novem Industries Inc., a wood recycling facility located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
BRAZIL – Dexco, owner of the Deca, Portinari, Hydra, Duratex, Castelatto, Ceusa and Durafloor brands, was considered the TOP 5 Construction and Real Estate company in the Ranking 100 Open Corps 2022, an award that recognizes the corporations that most practiced open innovation with startups in Brazil in the last year.
CHILE – Masisa S.A. informed that the Board of Directors agreed to call an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting for January 27, 2023.
ITALIA – The Saviola Group takes the majority stake in Rheinspan, a German company specializing in the production of panels for the furniture industry.
CHILE – In the context of the reorganization of its Wood segment, Arauco informed that on December 16, 2022, Inversiones Arauco Internacional Limitada contributed all of its interests in Arauco do Brasil S.A. and Arauco Argentina S.A. to the international parent entity incorporated in the United Kingdom called “Arauco Wood Limited”.
ARGENTINA – Masisa recently informed that it entered into a share purchase and sale agreement with the Argentine company Proener S.A.U., a subsidiary of the Argentine company Central Puerto S.A.
SPAIN – Since Garnica acquired the firm commitment to reduce its carbon footprint, the company has been incorporating in recent years to all its plants the carbon footprint register managed by the Spanish Office for Climate Change.
