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Furniture
and Parts
Malaysia
Semi-finished
FOB each
Dining
table
Solid
rubberwood laminated top 2.5' x 4'
with
extension leaf
US$21.5-22.5ea
As
above, Oak Veneer US$31-33ea
Windsor
Chair US$8-9.0ea
Colonial
Chair US$11.5-12.5ea
Queen
Anne Chair (with soft seat)
without
arm
US$14-15ea
with
arm
US$18.5-19ea
Rubberwood
Chair Seat
27x430x500mm
US$2.15-2.30ea
Rubberwood
Tabletop per Cu.m FOB
22x760x1220mm
sanded
and edge profiled
Top
Grade
US$520-525
Standard
US$480-490
Brazil
In
order to deal with the falling dollar manufacturers and exporters of wood
products in the State of Maranhão have invested in technical and
managerial improvements and increased productivity to remain competitive.
Out
of the Real 12 million invested by CIKEL (a company producing sawnwood,
plywood and flooring), Real 1 million was used in its Itinga mill, located
625 km from São Lu¨ªs (State capital). The plant is one of the
seven of the CIKEL Group and produces plywood for export to the United
States, Europe, the Caribbean and Mexico.
During
2005 the company will apparently reactivate the Bela Vista mill in Dom
Elizeu, in the State of Par¨¢ along the boarder with the State of Maranhão.
The plant has ben down since December 2003. This plant produced floor base
used as a wooden raw-material for flooring manufactured by two others
CIKEL plants in the State of Par¨¢ and Paran¨¢. When the plant reopens
this month it will produce
about 1,000 cubic metres of floor base a month.
Even
with financial strain as a result of exchange rate problems, SHALOM S/A,
another timber company will is reporting that it will increase its
production of solid doors to supply demand from regular customers in the
United States.
This
year, the orders for doors have increased and the plant, located in the
Industrial District of São Lu¨ªs, aims to export 12,000 wooden
doors in 2005. Last year 10,000 doors were exported, the same number as in
2003.
Executives
of timber companies in the region believe that decline in the dollar
exchange rate will only be
temporary but they expect fluctuations in the rate to continue for some
time.
FOB Belem/Paranagua Ports
Edge
Glued Pine Panel per Cu.m
for
Korea 1st Grade
US$570
US
Market US$530
Decking
Boards
Cambara
US$565 
Ipe
US$985
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