{"id":78696,"date":"2020-01-24T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/laminate-flooring-production-europe-falls-2019\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:52:24","slug":"laminate-flooring-production-europe-falls-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/laminate-flooring-production-europe-falls-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Laminate flooring production in Europe falls in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2019, the worldwide sales of the EPLF members was 447 million m\u00b2 of laminate flooring from European production (2018: 454 million m\u00b2, i.e. -1.5%). The second half of 2019 has witnessed an upturn recovering and is stabilising at a high level, even though the influence of declining world trade remains noticeable globally.<\/em><\/p>\n

The EPLF \"home market\" of Western Europe fell slightly in 2019, although important Western European countries are currently already reporting positive figures. Eastern Europe also delivered strong figures, while overseas sales experienced a setback.<\/p>\n

Slight decline in Western Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Western Europe (including Turkey), total sales in 2019 reached 219 million m\u00b2 (225 million m\u00b2 in 2018). This represents a decline of 2.1 % compared to the previous year. Germany remains by far the most important single market in Central Europe with 50 million m\u00b2 (52 million m\u00b2 in 2018). However, the setback is slowing down compared to previous years with a reduction of 5.0 %.<\/p>\n

France remains second in Europe, improving by 1.1 % in 2019 to 36.5 million m\u00b2 (36.0 million m\u00b2 in 2018). A positive trend for EPLF members can be seen in Great Britain: at 32.6 million m\u00b2 in 2019 (29.8 million m\u00b2 in 2018), the dent in the previous year's figure was offset by an increase of 9.5 %. The country thus continues to rank third in Western European sales ahead of the Netherlands, where association sales in 2019 improved by 1.4% to 18.6 million m\u00b2 (18.3 million in 2018). Spain also reported positive developments: sales figures for laminate flooring increased by 1.4% to 16.7 million m\u00b2 (16.5 million m\u00b2 in 2018).<\/p>\n

Strong growth in Eastern Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n

A clear upward trend is evident in Eastern Europe. The region confirms its role as an important future market for EPLF manufacturers. With 135 million m\u00b2 (128 million m\u00b2 in 2018), the European laminate flooring manufacturers achieved a good result there in 2019. EPLF members in Russia reported 43.8 million m\u00b2 (39 million m\u00b2 in 2018), which corresponds to a growth rate of 11.4 %. Poland improved by 6.1% to 31.2 million m\u00b2 (29.5 million m\u00b2 in 2018). The Ukraine is developing into the \"rising star\" in Eastern Europe: with 10.1 million m\u00b2, the country moved into third place in the region (+ 32.5% compared to the previous year with 7.6 million m\u00b2). Romania and Hungary are behind with 10 million m\u00b2 (11 million m\u00b2 in 2018) and 7 million m\u00b2 (- 2.4% in comparison to 2018).<\/p>\n

Significant setback in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a boom in the USA, North America has returned to a normal level, slowed down by a double-digit reduction in Canada.<\/p>\n

In 2019, a total of 40 million m\u00b2 (44.3 million m\u00b2 in 2018) were sold in North America, around 9.6% less than in the previous year. The USA showed a slight setback of 3.2% in 2019 with around 29.7 million m\u00b2 (30.7 million m\u00b2 in 2018), in Canada only close to 10.3 million m\u00b2 (previous year 13.6 million m\u00b2) were registered in 2019, which means a decline of 24.7%.<\/p>\n

Slowdown in Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n

The smaller export regions showed signs of the slowdown in world trade. Asia fell by 6% from 30 million m\u00b2 to 28.2 million m\u00b2 - with the positive exception of the Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan stabilised at the comparatively high level of 4 million m\u00b2 with a small increase of 0.1%. Latin America declined from 18.5 million m\u00b2 in 2018 to 15.7 million m\u00b2 in 2019 (-15.2%). Africa was also unable to continue the positive trend of previous years. The total sales volume of the various export markets from the north to the south of the continent fell slightly from 5.0 million m\u00b2 in 2018 to 4.9 million m\u00b2, which corresponds to a decline of 2.1%.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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