Archives: June 2020

Global sawlog prices hardly change in Q1, despite trade interruptions

    Global sawlog prices hardly change in Q1 from Q4, despite trade interruptions, uncertainty about short-term [...]

Swedish sawmills gain market shares in China and US during pandemic

          Many Swedish sawmills are now running at full speed again [...]

High import prices determine sawmills in China to slow down or stop production

   In March import prices in China had picked up despite total log inventory still building to over 8 [...]

UPM to close plywood mill in Finland

    UPM Plywood is planning to permanently close its Jyväskylä plywood mill in Finland, which is [...]

Worries over the evolution of China’s log demand in the medium term

There are some concerns about the China log market in the medium term. China’s finance minister Liu Kun said [...]

EU tropical timber trade weakened before COVID lockdown

Having reached the highest level in more than a decade in October 2019, EU27+UK trade in tropical wood and [...]

Currency devaluation agains US dollar puts additional pressure on Chinese timber importers

    On May 28, the People ’s Bank of China authorized the China Foreign Exchange Trading Center [...]

US wood pellet sector well-positioned for the post-pandemic period

    The wood pellet sector in US has many advantages that other sectors might envy as they [...]

Indonesia revokes ending legality license for wood exports

The Indonesian government has backed down from a decision to scrap its timber legality verification process for wood export, amid [...]