Archives: April 2020

Wood companies in France seek to restart activity

Each month of lockdown would cost between 2% and 3% growth for the French economy. Under these conditions, French wood [...]

Finland’s sawmill industry expected to be hit hard by the coronavirus crisis

    The coronavirus crisis strikes Finland's forest sector with varying degrees of impact. On the whole [...]

Estonian company builds large softwood sawmill in Belarus

    The Belarusian wood processing industry will become more competitive following the construction of a new sawmill [...]

Lockdowns in Europe rewrite economic forecasts

    Economic forecasts issued only a few weeks ago in Europe, which projected continuing slow increase this [...]

German timber industry: Coronavirus worsens the ongoing bark beetle, storm crisis

The German forestry and timber industry was already in a state of emergency before the coronavirus pandemic: storms, drought and [...]

African tropical timber market impacted by the coronavirus crisis

    As the coronavirus pandemic is expanding in many countries of the world, the tropical timber market [...]

Weyerhaeuser reduces lumber production by 20%

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Weyerhaeuser is dynamically adjusting operating capacity at certain of its manufacturing facilities.   [...]

Metsä to build ”world’s most modern sawmill” in Finland

    Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has made the decision to build the ''world’s most [...]

Bergs Timber to close Gransjö sawmill in Sweden

The Board of Directors of Bergs Timber has decided to immediately initiate discussion with the unions to close Gransjö sawmill [...]

Forecast: What’s the impact of the coronavirus on the Chinese timber industry?

    During the coronavirus crisis, nearly half of the companies in the Chinese wood industry reported that [...]