Archives: September 2020

Finnish forest industry exports drop 18% in H1/2020

In the first half year the exports value of the Finnish forest industry products totalled in real terms EUR 5 [...]

EGGER laminates its first particleboard panel at its new plant in Lexington

  EGGER announced it has laminated its first particleboard panel at its new manufacturing facility in Lexington, North Carolina [...]

Sawlog prices fall in most regions of the world in Q2/2020

Sawlog prices fell in most of the major regions of the world in the 2Q/20. A strengthening US dollar [...]

Tschopp Holzindustrie to invest in a new sawmill in Switzerland

    Tschopp Holzindustrie to build a new sawmill in Switzerland. This will replace the existing plant, which [...]

Swedish sawmills to take advantage of opportunities in the US market

Danske Bank's head of the forestry and agriculture business area, Johan Freij, summarizes the situation in the timber market [...]

Impact of COVID-19 on the EU tropical wood market

    The impact of COVID-19 on imports of tropical wood and wood furniture on individual EU27 [...]

Sharp fall in Estonian roundwood prices

    Under the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic and the price pressure of the bark beetle [...]

Lumber suppliers to the US market struggle to supply

The price of lumber in the Chicago futures market is at an all-time high. The demand for lumber is [...]

Shrinking MDF market in China

According to Chinese market insiders, the weakness of the downstream furniture market in China this year has led to a [...]

Timber supply for 2020 and 2021 under threat in Ireland

    Coillte has warned the Government that it could run out of timber to sell off before [...]