MEXICO – As of January 1, 2019 Omar Nacif Serio is the new General Director of board manufacturer Proteak of Mexico.

BRAZIL – Berneck S. A. Painéis e Serrados placed an order with Siempelkamp for an MDF production plant with cutting-edge ContiRoll® technology.

U.S. – Oregon-based Roseburg Forest Products recently reached an agreement in principle with PotlatchDeltic Corp. to purchase the assets of its subsidiary Del-Tin Fiber LLC, including its medium density fiberboard (MDF) plant located in El Dorado, Ark.

MEXICO – At the close of the 3Q-2018 wood panel manufacturer Tecnotabla maintained the leading position in the Mexican MDF Market.

CHILE – The board of directors of the Chilean company Masisa informed that it will stop consolidating the results of its subsidiaries operations in Venezuela, as have other multinationals from other countries with investments in Venezuela.

ECUADOR – Two months before the end of the year, Ecuadorian exports of PB/MDP reached USD 100.9 million, which represented a strong increase of 24.9% compared to USD 88.8 million reached in the first ten months of 2017 (10M -2017).

CANADA / CHILE – In the third quarter (3Q) of 2018, Chilean Arauco stood out among its peers, recording the best performance figures of the Notifix® Index.

CHILE – Masisa, a leading manufacturer of value-added wooden panels (MDF and MDP / PB), with plantations and production operations in Chile, Venezuela and Mexico (currently in the process of being sold) and regional distribution, presented the results of the third quarter 2018.

U.S. – The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), the United States’ top environmental authority, has accepted through its Antimicrobial Division the registration of Arauco’s proprietary, InCopper® antimicrobial technology.

U.S. – Construction work has started on Egger’s new wood-based materials plant in Lexington, North Carolina, USA.

ECUADOR – Columbia Forest Products (CFP) has acquired Plantaciones de Balsa S.A. (Plantabal) a hardwood veneer processing facility from 3A Composites in Ecuador.

GERMANY – Consolidated sales of Pfleiderer Group, a leading European manufacturer of wood products for the furniture industry, interior industry and construction, increased by 8.8% in 3Q-2018 to EUR 266.5 million.