Parquet industry loses out

The year 2008 was a very difficult one for the European parquet industry: production went down for the first time, after years of uninterrupted growth. According to provisional figures issued by the Federation of the European Parquet Industry, the production volume of 84.73 mio m² was 15.6 per cent below the previous year’s level. Parquet consumption was also down, falling 9.5 per cent to 101.55 mio m². Further information on the development of the European parquet industry in 2008 can be found under the Trade topics heading at DIYglobal plus (v. Other articles on this topic).