Chinese wood companies reroute wood products as to beat US tariffs
As the trade war between China and the U.S. festers, business leaders and analysts say Chinese producers are likely [...]
October 1, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Pulp & Paper / Sawmilling / Wood-based Panels / Woodworking Machinery / China / North America
Trends in the European wood pellet market
Due to their location at seaports and limited domestic production, the large power utilities in the United Kingdom and Belgium [...]
October 1, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
Norwegian roundwood prices up by 15% during Q2/2018
In Norway, a total of 2.80 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood were cut for sale in the second [...]
October 1, 2018
Market Analysis / Wood Industry Prices / ...Forestry / Industry Prices / Pulp & Paper / Sawmilling / Europe
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
