The recovery in U.S. housing construction, an expanding global furniture industry, and strong growth in housing construction in rapidly developing countries in Eastern Europe and Russia will lead to a boom in particleboard production by 2017.  According to Australian industry analyst BIS Shrapnel’s latest Particleboard in the Pacific Rim and Europe 2013-2017 report, Europe – which is still struggling to return to growth following the global financial and economic crisis – will be the main beneficiary of the boom, with exports set to more than double during the forecast period as production expands in Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary ...