Archives: August 2018

Lumber prices in the US went down at the beginning of August

Framing lumber prices in US spiraled downward, as mills searched for trading levels to little avail. Deep double-digit cuts [...]

Sonae Arauco plans to build new particleboard plant at its site in Germany

Sonae Arauco decided to invest in a new state-of-the-art particleboard plant at the company’s Beeskow site [...]

China’s wood companies face difficulties in the US market

    Data from China Customs shows that in 2017 total value of China’s wood products trade [...]

EGGER Group reports record results

    The EGGER Group again set new records in its annual results for 2017/2018.   [...]

Swedish sawmills in jeopardy due to tight log supply caused by forest fires

Although consumption of wood raw-material by the Swedish forest industry has risen in 2017 and early 2018, sawmills have [...]

Arauco to make its largest investment in its history

Arauco’s Board of Directors recently approved the MAPA project (Spanish acronym for Modernization and Extension of Arauco Mill), a [...]

Germany: Record wood pellets production in the first half of 2018

    In the first half of 2018, around 1.18 million tonnes of wood pellets were produced [...]

Latest trends in the European oak market

    Prices across the range of temperate species are said to be firm thanks to demand levels [...]

Georgia-Pacific to build large sawmill in Georgia, USA

Georgia-Pacific announced plans for construction of a new lumber production facility in Albany-Dougherty County, Georgia, USA.   [...]

Dutch Wijma wood processing company stops activities in Cameroon

Due to the intensified conflict between opposing parties and security forces in Cameroon’s North and Southwest provinces, Dutch wood [...]