Archives: October 2018

Important lumber-related developments impact lumber prices in the US

A number of important lumber-related developments have come out of North America over the last period.    [...]

Lumber prices in the US continue to drop

    US traders noted a change in the tone of the framing lumber market, and even a [...]

European construction sector becomes more interested in hardwood

The UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) released their Annual Market Review 2017-2018, together with several [...]

The European Union and Vietnam have finally signed the VPA

    On 19 October 2018, a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) between the European Union and the Socialist [...]

Homag works on meeting increased demand from the furniture industry

Homag is taking steps to continue its sales and earnings growth. The world market leader of woodworking machinery is fundamentally [...]

The imports of wood pellets in Japan went up by 50%

The Japanese Forestry Agency announced the statistics for wood pellet supply in Japan for 2017.     Domestic [...]

Overview of the global MDF market

    The global MDF market amounted to 99.6M cubic meters in 2017, posting solid gains over [...]

Russian softwood lumber exports increase sharply in value

Russian softwood lumber exports increased sharply in the first eight months of the year, both in value and in volume [...]

EU sawn hardwood consumption forecast to remain latent

The UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) released their Annual Market Review 2017-2018, together with several [...]

Softwood lumber production in the US goes up, while Canadian output decreases

U.S. sawmills produced 20.678 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first seven months of 2018 [...]