Archives: October 2019

Enviva to build a huge wood pellet plant in Alabama

Enviva, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, is to build a new production plant in Alabama, US. The [...]

Stora Enso to curtail a sawmill in Finland

Finnish-Swedish forest industry giant Stora Enso will suspend operations for more than two months at its Uimaharju Sawmill in [...]

US lumber prices bounce back despite low housing starts

    North American lumber prices have bounced back but how long will this last? A look at [...]

Vietnam forestry products exports up 18.1% in the first nine months of 2019

    Forestry exports were estimated to exceed 7.93 billion USD in the first 9 months of [...]

ENplus to open revision process

With recent studies highlighting the rapid expansion of the wood pellet market with a global production increase of 11 percent [...]

Indonesian timber industry seeks to take advantage of the US-China trade war

The Indonesian government is mulling over banking on its timber and furniture industry to seize the momentum amid the ongoing [...]

Vietnam’s wood industry struggles to prevent trade fraud as Chinese move business in the country

    According to a market research on wood processing market of Vietnam by Forest Trend, in the [...]

Brazil’s forest sector to invest USD 7.84 billion in additional production capacity by 2023

    Investments in pulp, soluble cellulose, paper and wood panels - the sector represented by the Brazilian Tree [...]

Czech forest owners face huge losses due to the bark beetle infestation

    Czech forest owners face 40 billion crowns ($1.70 billion) of damage this year from an [...]

Norbord reduces OSB production; lower demand cited

    Since September,  Norbord has reduced production at Line 1 of its Cordele, Georgia OSB mill.  [...]