The management of Homann Holzwerkstoffe GmbH, a leading European supplier of thin, refined wooden fibreboards for the furniture, doors and coatings industries, has decided to postpone the planned start of production at its new MDF/HDF plant in Lithuania, near the capital Vilnius, until presumably September 2024. The start of production scheduled for the end of 2023 was initially delayed due to technical problems, which were resolved at the beginning of 2024. The reason for the further delay is that the management considers the existing environmental permit to be insufficiently robust to enable economic and competitive production. The management ...