Archives: October 2020

US to appeal WTO ruling on Canadian lumber subsidies

The United States said Monday it had appealed a World Trade Organization ruling that favoured Canada in a longstanding battle [...]

Czech Republic: Forest owners to receive state compensation for damaged wood

    The Czech Ministry of Agriculture collected the 2019 applications for damaged wood compensation for non-state [...]

States from the Congo Basin to ban timber exports

      In a bid to stimulate the production of timber to the GDP of Central [...]

Sweden’s Norra timber to buy three batch kilns from Valutec

    Swedish Norra Timber is now investing in three batch kilns each to its sawmills in K [...]

Rising demand for logs and lumber in China due strong construction season

Sawmills report increased sale prices for lumber in Asian markets. These increases were agreed relatively quickly by the buyers which [...]

BC forest companies to take full advantage of record lumber prices

A record demand and reduced supplies have pushed the price of 2x4s to historic highs but the B.C. forest [...]

Södra to increase price for spruce timber

The global economy is still uncertain due to the pandemic, but for the sawmill industry, the market has strengthened during [...]

Chinese wooden furniture trade severely impacted by Covid-19

    Under the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the value of China’s wooden furniture [...]

Roundwood price evolutions in Finland

    The average price for pine logs in Finland was EUR 53.8 per cubic metre, and [...]

Egger begins operations at its first US plant in Lexington

Egger, one of the world's leading wood-based solutions suppliers, has completed its first raw particleboard production, marking the [...]