Parquet consumption continues to progress in the EU, benefiting from the encouraging economic context, especially from the growth of the European consumption, and the positive trends shown by the construction sector.  Regretfully, Germany, the biggest European market for parquet, has officially reported a significant decline in parquet consumption. The consolidated data provided by the FEP (European Federation of the Parquet Industry) member companies and affiliated national associations are at present pointing to a slight growth of the global European market of 0,3% in 2017 compared to 2016.  As usual, the results show some variation from ...