Archives: June 2019

Vietnam needs to invest in production capacity as to boost wood products exports

    Vietnam's wood and forestry product export turnover reached over US$9.3 billion in 2018 [...]

Lumber prices in the US on decline at the end of May

Trading remained a grind, as sellers stepped up efforts to move prompt loadings while buyers limited purchases to must-have [...]

US turns to Vietnamese plywood as trade war with China advances

While U.S. imports of hardwood plywood are flat, imports from Vietnam are growing rapidly amid declines in the China [...]

Austria: wood pellets prices go down in May

The May price of wood pellets in Austria has dropped as both compared to the previous month, as well as [...]

Rising final felling in Sweden to bark beetles attacks

The notified area of final felling in Sweden increased by 13% in April compared with the corresponding month in 2018 [...]

Forests in Italy start to recover six months after Vaia storm

With millions of cubic meters of timber still on the ground, and summer approaching, authorities and environmentalists in northern Italy [...]

Downward price trend for wood products in Germany

The economic downturn noted by the market research institutes is also reflected in Germany's producer prices for commercial wood [...]

US hardwood industry starts to realize the importance of diversification of hardwood export markets

    The fact that China has imposed tariffs on American hardwood products imports has sounded the alarm [...]

Granuul Invest buys former German Pellets assets in Texas

Graanul Invest affiliate Woodville Pellets, LLC submitted the winning bid in the auction conducted on May 9, 2019 for the [...]

Saint-Gobain sells German SGBDD for EUR 335 million

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA (SGO.FR) said Monday that it has reached an agreement to sell its entire stake [...]