EU demand for wood pellets still at a high level
The EU is the world’s largest wood pellet market, with consumption of about 22.7 [...]
September 26, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
Hurricane Florence causes trouble for Louisiana-Pacific
Louisiana-Pacific (LP) announced that due to Hurricane Florence, its Wilmington, N.C. engineered wood operations have been temporarily shut [...]
September 26, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Sawmilling / ...Wood-based Panels / North America
Canadian lumber giants downgraded due to negative expectations for the US housing market
Shares in several major Canadian forestry companies closed down Wednesday after an analyst downgrade and lower-than-expected building permits [...]
September 26, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood Construction / North America
Japanese company targets the Russian wooden housing market
Iida, a Japanese wooden house construction company, is targeting the Russian market. Setting it sight on [...]
September 26, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Wood Construction / ...Asia & Middle East / Russia
European tropical logs and sawnood on recover this year
After a downturn in 2017, the quantity of EU imports of tropical logs recovered a little [...]
September 26, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa / Asia & Middle East / Europe / South America
Chinese sawnwood imports and prices up sharply this year
China’s sawnwood imports in the first quarter of 2018 totalled 8.28 million cubic metres valued at US$2 [...]
September 26, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / China
Segezha Group starts production at new wood pellet plant in Russia
Segezha Group starts production of the wood pellets at the company’s Sokol Timber Company in Russia. According to the [...]
September 26, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood Energy / Russia
Production of wood pellets keeps growing in European countries
With a production of about 14.3 MMT in 2017, about fifty percent of global production, the EU is the [...]
September 24, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
Oak lumber restrictions lifted in Croatia
The transport restrictions for oak wood in Croatia which have the purpose of preventing the propagation of the oak lace [...]
September 24, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
Europe might profit from the US-China trade war
The additional tariffs of the US government under President Donald Trump slow the Chinese growth by 0.1 to 0 [...]
September 24, 2018
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