Archives: 2017

US Northwest sawmills work on building log inventories for the winter season

Sawmills and pulpmills in the US Northwest have been struggling to build log inventories for the winter season because of [...]
December 7, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America

Roundwood products prices in Estonia have risen sharply in October

In October, the prices of nearly all roundwood product ranges in Estonia have risen, as compared to the same period [...]

Forestry sector in China forecast to reach output value of $1.1 trillion in 2017

China's forestry sector output value is likely to reach 7 trillion yuan (approx. $1.1 trillion) in 2017, due [...]
December 7, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...China

Canadian lumber exports to US drop 8% year-over-year in Q1-Q3, but value is up 0.15% due to high lumber prices

Canada's softwood lumber exports to the U.S. have fallen since the Americans imposed new duties earlier this year [...]

European construction sector set to grow in 2017

Construction volume in the Euroconstruct area is expected to grow by 3.5% in 2017. The strongest stimuli will once [...]
December 6, 2017 Market Analysis / Wood Construction / ...Europe

Germany’s parquet production drops in the first half of the year

The German parquet manufacturers recorded a decline in production during the first half of 2017.    According [...]
December 6, 2017 Latest Trends / Wood-based Panels / ...Europe

UK furniture retailer fined under EUTR

Designer furniture retailer Lombok has become the first business to be fined for breaching regulations introduced in 2013 to prohibit [...]

Andritz delivers biomass boiler to new Japan wood pellet plant

    Austrian woodworking technology company Andritz has received an order from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd [...]

Italian furniture exports head outside Europe

The Italian furniture sector exports more and more to non European Countries, such as many other segments of the woodworking [...]

Housing market boom to drive Middle East’s wood market growth

Once that over 25,000 homes have been added to the UAE’s residential market this year, the wood and [...]