Archives: 2024

India’s Century Plyboards plans to expand plywood production capacity by 30%

Indian wood products maker Century Plyboards plans to expand its plywood production capacity by around 30 percent over the next [...]
September 17, 2024 Latest Trends

European birch plywood producers and traders are still facing illegal imports from Russia and Belarus

This week a webinar hosted by the European Panel Federation and the Polish Association of Wood based Panel Producers informed [...]
September 13, 2024 Latest Trends

Poland: State Forests criticizes logging ban

The January logging banolan in Poland, which limits tree cutting in 10 locations, means a reduction of 400,000 to [...]
September 13, 2024 Latest Trends

Norra Timber to upgrade sawmill in Sweden

The operations at Norra Timber's sawmill in Hissmofors, northern Sweden will be developed through multi-million investments to be [...]
September 13, 2024 Latest Trends

Canada announces challenges to latest increases in US softwood lumber duties

The federal government says Canada will challenge recent increases to softwood lumber duties by the United States. International Trade [...]
September 13, 2024 Latest Trends

Segezha president calls for unified certification among BRICS countries

Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, Segezha Group forest industry holding president Alexander Kreshchenko emphasized that [...]
September 12, 2024 Latest Trends

Tough fall expected for Swedish sawmills

The optimism that Swedish sawmill managers displayed in the spring has now turned into concern. The momentum from the spring [...]
September 12, 2024 Latest Trends

UK sees reduction in timber import deficit

UK's timber import volumes for the first six months of 2024 remain lower than we saw in 2023, but [...]
September 12, 2024 Latest Trends

Georgia-Pacific to modify lumber operations in Texas, South Carolina

Georgia-Pacific announced Friday it is modifying lumber operations at two of its lumber facilities located in Camden and Prosperity [...]
September 12, 2024 Latest Trends

Europe’s wood panel manufacturing sector anticipates improvement this year

According to the European Panel Federation’s (EPF) latest Annual Report, Europe’s wood panel manufacturing sector had a difficult [...]
September 11, 2024 Latest Trends