Archives: 2024

Sweden: Sawlog prices up 25% year-on-year

Prices for both sawlog and pulpwood increased across Sweden in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the second quarter [...]
October 24, 2024 Latest Trends

Kronospan affiliate Banasino prepares mandatory offer for Surteco

Banasino Investments S.à.r.l., an affiliate of Kronospan, has raised its stake in Surteco Group SE to 30% by [...]
October 24, 2024 Latest Trends

Germany: Pellet prices remain low in October

The heating season has begun, but price increases for wood pellets are still a long way off. With the start [...]
October 24, 2024 Latest Trends

Stora Enso’s payment frenzy is accelerating in Sweden

Media reports about how Stora Enso deliberately delayed the payment of invoices have caused the Swedish entrepreneurs' organization to demand [...]
October 24, 2024 Latest Trends

ISC 2024: Softwood lumber production in Europe expected to rise in 2025

The 72nd International Softwood Conference took place in the picturesque town of Taormina, Italy, from October 16-18, 2024. The [...]
October 23, 2024 Latest Trends

Poland’s wood and furniture sector sees highest growth in insolvencies

In the first three quarters of 2024, 4,465 Polish companies declared insolvency, marking a 23% increase from the same [...]
October 23, 2024 Latest Trends

Brazil: MDF/HDF production capacity now exceeds 8 million cubic meters

In 2023, Brazil’s installed production capacity for medium-density fiberboard (MDF) and high-density fiberboard (HDF) reached a total [...]
October 23, 2024 Latest Trends

Södra announces new timber price increase

Timber prices in Sweden continue to rise. Södra is implementing another price increase, this time for logs, small logs [...]
October 23, 2024 Latest Trends

Pallet and packaging companies to see significant change in their businesses within a decade

 Pallet and packaging companies heard that they should expect significant change in their businesses within a decade, during a [...]
October 23, 2024 Latest Trends

US lumber prices continue to climb as supplies tighten

Sales momentum and tighter supplies pushed U.S. framing lumber prices higher across multiple species. Despite rising mortgage interest rates [...]
October 22, 2024 Latest Trends