DIEFFENBACHER earned nearly 400 million euros in sales in 2021 due to high demand for new wood-based panel production plants, diversification of its forming business, growing customer interest in sustainable solutions and the introduction of a smart plant concept that gives manufacturers more insight into their production and processes.

The Forest Flux service, which has been developed under VTT’s leadership and utilises field surveying and satellite images, provides accurate and comparable information on the ability of forests to bind carbon. In the next few years, the information will increasingly be needed by all forestry actors as well as by governments, climate researchers and carbon trading professionals.

VPK celebrates another milestone in UK packaging and manufacturing industry. “We’re celebrating an amazing milestone of 115 years of corrugated packaging manufacturing in the UK!” The long history of corrugated packaging manufacturing stretching back over a century started in 1906 in Desborough, Northamptonshire.

UPM Plywood has announced its major investment of 10 million euros in the development of the Plywood’s mill in Joensuu.

Sawmilling solutions provider Finnos advances industry support with all new Board Scanner. Finnos is striving to become a Google in the sawmill industry with advances system solutions

Planky and Trunky are the main characters of the EFI Cubik campaign showing the advantages of digital staining of parquet hardwood flooring.

Beck and Kehratec unites in mass timber construction. A nail, a robot, two experts, one mission. Fastening pioneer Beck is taking the next big step towards ecological fastening technology with its Lignoloc wooden nail system with partner Kehratec, in robot automation.

Cascade Hardwoods recently invested in Microtec’s CT X-ray Log Scanning and Logeye 900 Stereo Carriage Scanners for their Chehalis, WA facility.

Dieffenbacher gets new order from Wanhua. Chinese wood and straw-based panel manufacturer orders 10 production lines in six years. Wanhua Ecoboard, the panel division of Chinese MDI glue producer Wanhua Industrial Group, has ordered two lines from Dieffenbacher that will enable it to begin producing straw-based Supermechanical Strength Particleboard (Super PB) in 2023. Wanhua Ecoboard has now ordered 10 production lines from Dieffenbacher.

Industrial Wood Coatings division of Sherwin-Williams, through its Global Color & Design Centre, has released the annual Colormix trend forecast for 2022: MODE. Highlighting 24 trending wood finishes, MODE is an acronym for the four collections within the forecast – Method, Opus, Dreamland and Ephemera.