Dieffenbacher expects record-setting wood-based panel plants in 2018
Dieffenbacher anticipates 2018 as one of its busiest and most significant years ever based on the completion of record-setting [...]
February 28, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Wood-based Panels / Woodworking Machinery / Europe
Overview of tropical species availability on the EU market
Looking at individual species and products, importers in several EU countries, report particularly good demand for sapele in 2017, with [...]
February 28, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Europe
Georgia-Pacific invests $135 million in softwood lumber production plant
Georgia‐Pacific announced on the 20th of February that the company will build a new softwood lumber production facility in [...]
February 28, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America
Finnish electricity company opens 92MW wood pellet plant
Finnish electricity company Helen, has opened a new 92MW biomass plant in Helsinki. The plant is the largest pellet-fired [...]
February 28, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Wood Energy / ...Europe
Chinese flooring sales up by 5% in 2017
According to the flooring Committee, China National Forestry Forest Industry Association (CNFPIA), China's wood and bamboo flooring sales in [...]
February 28, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood-based Panels / China
EU imports of sawn temperate hardwood decline 7%
EU imports of sawn temperate hardwoods also declined in 2017, although less dramatically than imports of sawn tropical hardwoods. Total [...]
February 28, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Europe / North America
New standards in China to reduce number of redwood species
A revised national standard, (GB/T 18107-2017 effective 1 July 2018), for Chinese redwood has been released by the [...]
February 27, 2018
Market Analysis / Forestry / ...China
Woodworking machinery company in China acquires 75% of Italian Masterwood
Guangzhou KDT Machinery Co. will buy 75 percent of Masterwood, a recognized Italian brand of machinery for wood processing, for [...]
February 27, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Market Analysis / ...Woodworking Machinery / China / Europe
Great results for the woodworking machinery industry in Italy
2017 was a good year for the industry Italian woodworking machinery manufacturers, according to Acimall's latest figures. The value [...]
February 27, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Market Analysis / ...Wood Furniture / Woodworking Machinery / Europe
China forecasts 18% decline in softwood log imports and 10% in hardwood log imports expected in the next decade
China's logs, lumber and woodchips imports have been ascending rapidly and reached very high values. Between 2012 and 2017 [...]
February 27, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / China
