Archives: 2024

UPM to lower its outlook for 2024

UPM lowers its outlook for this year due to lower deliveries in most businesses and lower pulp prices.  During [...]
October 18, 2024 Latest Trends

Interfor to sell its Québec sawmills

Interfor Corporation announced plans to exit its operations in Québec, Canada, including the sale of its three manufacturing facilities [...]
October 18, 2024 Latest Trends

Stora Enso comes under criticism in Sweden due to payment delays

Forestry giant Stora Enso has come under criticism in Sweden for payment delays. The Swedish financial newspaper Dagens Industri [...]
October 16, 2024 Latest Trends

European wood-based panels sector expected to gradually recover from mid-2025

The European wood-based panels market will start to gradually recover from mid-2025, delegates at the European Wood Based [...]
October 16, 2024 Latest Trends

Austria: Current conditions for the parquet industry are very challenging

The Austrian parquet industry held its traditional annual meeting this year in Geinberg under the chairmanship of Christoph Bawart. The [...]
October 16, 2024 Latest Trends

Kronospan subsidiaries in Ukraine to receive 30-mln euro loan from EIB

The Austrian manufacturer of wood-based panels Kronospan is planning to raise a 200-million-euro loan from the European [...]
October 16, 2024 Latest Trends

German wood industry calls for stable policy frameworks

With a joint appeal, the associations The Forest Owners (AGDW) and the German Sawmill and Wood Industry Association (DeSH) are [...]
October 16, 2024 Latest Trends

Global wood markets face continued struggles with rising costs and trade disruptions

As August came to a close, the global wood products sector remained under pressure. In Europe, many countries are facing [...]
October 15, 2024

EU opens formal investigation into Chinese hardwood plywood dumping; suspected of originating from Russia

The European Commission has launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of hardwood plywood from China, acting on a complaint [...]
October 15, 2024 Latest Trends

Hurricane Helene impacted around $1.28 billion in timber resources in Georgia

The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) said they estimated a total timber resource impact of $1.28 billion from Hurricane Helene [...]
October 15, 2024 Latest Trends