GreenFirst Forest Products to acquire Rayonier’s lumber mills
Rayonier Advance Materials and GreenFirst Forest Products Inc. (GreenFirst), a Canadian lumber company, announced that the parties have entered into [...]
April 16, 2021
Companies in the timber industry / Forestry / ...Pulp & Paper / Sawmilling / North America
Professor develops method to predict future lumber price changes
At a time when lumber prices are skyrocketing, an Oregon State University researcher has developed a new way to predict [...]
April 15, 2021
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Wood Construction / North America
Canada has new ways to pressure US over softwood lumber duties
Canadian officials have new leverage as they urge Washington to negotiate a solution to the long-standing dispute over U [...]
April 15, 2021
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Lack of raw materials threaten wood prices in Vietnam
As global supply chains were affected by the Suez Canal incident, the supply issues for raw materials for Vietnam’s [...]
April 15, 2021
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Wood Furniture / Wood-based Panels / Asia & Middle East / Europe / North America
UPM sells its Jyväskylä plywood mill
UPM sells its Jyväskylä plywood mill site and premises, located in Säynätsalo, Jyv [...]
April 15, 2021
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood-based Panels / Europe
European sawmill industry could benefit on the long term from the Covid-19 pandemic
When in late February 2020 it became apparent that the Covid-19 virus would wreak havoc not just [...]
April 15, 2021
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Europe: Pellet demand to grow by 30-40% over the next five years
The forecasted growth in wood pellet production in Europe will increase competition for wood fiber and [...]
April 13, 2021
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
Södra to purchase a new sawmill
Södra is acquiring Ture Johanssons Trävaru AB and AB Tenhults Impregneringsverk. [...]
April 13, 2021
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Considerable rise in Brazilian wood product exports
In February 2021 Brazilian exports of wood-based products (except pulp and paper) increased 30.5% in value compared to [...]
April 13, 2021
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood Construction / Wood-based Panels / South America
Cooperation project aims to boost European exports of wooden products to China
At present, China is the world's largest timber processing and wood product production base and the most important wood [...]
April 13, 2021
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