Archives: 2024

Keitele Timber to boost annual production at its sawmill by 50%

Keitele Timber Oy plans to implement an investment program of more than 40 million euros, which will increase the annual [...]
May 28, 2024 Latest Trends

North American lumber prices rise on demand, supply woes

North American lumber traded around $540 per thousand board feet in May, near the month's highest level, as the [...]
May 28, 2024 Latest Trends

Cooper to acquire Thomasville Lumber Company

Cooper Lumber, Mobile, Al., has acquired Thomasville Lumber Company, Thomasville, Al. Owned and operated by James Dixon since 2001 [...]
May 28, 2024 Latest Trends

Germany: FSC certification in the Hessian state forest suspended

The Hessian state government is currently reversing some of the forestry and environmental policy decisions of the previous black-green [...]
May 28, 2024 Latest Trends

Japan’s shrinking softwood import market

Japan’s predominantly wood-based housing sector has historically been a strong market for the world’s softwood lumber exporters [...]
May 28, 2024 Latest Trends

Global wood prices in downward spiral – lumber becomes a slow seller

Global wood prices continue to fall on the world market. Demand for lumber is collapsing in North America. The reason [...]
May 24, 2024

Top largest wood product companies in Poland

The three largest global players in the production of wood-based panels were on the podium. The Austrian Kronospan took [...]
May 24, 2024 Latest Trends

New Zealand’s timber industry at risk due to low domestic and international demand

New Zealand’s timber manufacturers are feeling the pinch, with mils reporting “very low forward orders, indeed worse than last [...]
May 24, 2024 Latest Trends

How the European softwood lumber prices follow the dynamics US lumber prices

The prices of softwood lumber quoted on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange can be used as a regressor to estimate the [...]
May 23, 2024

Kronospan continues to expand in the North American wood panel market

Kronospan has announced the acquisition of Woodgrain’s particleboard facility in Island City, Oregon. The addition of the Island City [...]
May 23, 2024 Latest Trends