Archives: August 2019

Brazilian wood products exports fell sharply in June 2019

The value of Brazilian exports of wood-based products in June 2019 (excluding pulp and paper products) fell 12% year [...]

Top 10 negative influencing factors for the Chinese timber market today

China’s economic downturn is impacting sales of wood products and under present market conditions there is growing over-capacity [...]

Vietnam becomes top supplier of hardwood plywood to the US

    US imports of hardwood plywood were down 5% in June, with decreases in volume from nearly [...]

Russia and New Zealand compete over timber exports to China

Russia is currently China's largest timber source. In 2018, Russian exports to China reached 15.65 million cubic meters [...]

U.S. removes Chinese furniture from planned 10% tariffs

    The Trump administration is sparing some Chinese-made household furniture  from its next rounds of 10 [...]

Belarus to start producing wood pellets

  A program to build six pellet plants in Belarus is being implemented. All of them will be operational [...]
August 22, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

British Columbia’s softwood lumber shipments to US down by 25%

The value of B.C. softwood shipments into the United States has plunged 25 per cent as American duties and [...]

Rising pellet prices in Germany

The August pellet price in Germany has increased compared to the previous month. It rose slightly by 0.8 percent [...]

Sweden: Derome acquires construction trade Woody Anderstorp

Derome, Sweden’s largest family owned wood industry focused company, acquires Woody Anderstorp and joins the construction trade on January [...]

Conifex forecasts further reduction in lumber shipments

Conifex Timber Inc. reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019.    The company incurred [...]