Archives: 2023

UK’s Travis Perkins warns of challenging 2023

Travis Perkins, Britain's biggest supplier of building materials, warned of a challenging 2023 as housebuilders slow down projects and [...]

Canfor’s sales drop by 12.6% in Q4

For the Q4 2022, Canfor Corporation reported an operating loss of $308.0 million. After taking account of adjusting items [...]

Pfeifer reports pellet production record

With 138,000 tons of pellets, the Pfeifer's Unterbernbach plant set a new production record in 2022. Following [...]

Changes in the roundwood and sawnwood market in China

The past year has been tough enough for the Chinese economy since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. The [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends

Austria: Prices for spruce sawlogs on the rise

A storm and snowfall at the beginning of February led to isolated minor damage in some regions, and the volumes [...]

Global plywood market to rise sharply in the next ten years

The global plywood market is valued at US$85.5bn as of 2023. The market is expected to grow at [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends

Russian loggers are experiencing additional difficulties with the sale of sawlogs

Russian sawmills in January tried their best to process their own logs, and to reduce purchases from the open market [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends / Market Analysis

New European Deforestation Regulation challenges the Malaysian timber industry

The Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) is indeed focusing on efforts to prepare the timber industry for future challenges, mainly [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends

German Pellets bankruptcy goes to court

Seven years after the insolvency world's largest pellet producer German Pellets, its former managing director is coming to court [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Poland’s wood industry in crisis due to lack of orders

Poland's wood industry was still coping with problems at the beginning of last year. It has only gotten worse [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends