Archives: 2020

German forests receive € 700 million aid

he Federal Government will offer € 700 million to deal with the damage in the German forest after two years of [...]

Södra appoints new President and CEO

    The Board of Södra has appointed Lotta Lyrå (in the left photo) as new President [...]

Where is the Chinese timber market heading in the post-pandemic era?

As the world is gradually entering the post-coronavirus period, there is one main question that haunts the global wood [...]

Forecast: Chinese lumber imports from the Nordic countries to exceed those from Canada

    In early 2020, due to oversupply, the declining prices made European lumber producers more globally competitive [...]

Log prices in Finland expected to fall by 3-4% this year

This year, the decline in the Finnish timber market continues as the forest industry's production shutdowns in the early [...]

No pandemic impact in March EU tropical timber trade data

    The lack of any strong COVID signal in the tropical timber trade data to the end [...]

Tropical timber trade in West Africa sluggish

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get trade news from West Africa. Communication channels have not been affected by pandemic [...]

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 [...]