Archives: 2024

Global wood industry outlook still faces economic challenges

The global wood industry faces economic challenges amid sluggish growth in key regions like China, the US, and Europe. Stable [...]
April 18, 2024 Latest Trends

Austria: Sawlog prices facing downward pressure due to market saturation

The Austrian sawmill industry is well stocked with softwood logs, and the market is saturated regionally. The early April foehn [...]
April 18, 2024 Latest Trends

Development trends of China’s wood-based panel trade

China's wood-based panel import and export are faced dual challenges from domestic and foreign markets from 2020 to [...]
April 18, 2024 Latest Trends

Södra raises timber prices again; cites raw material deficit

The price adjustments cover softwood pulpwood, hardwood pulpwood, fuelwood, timber, and small sawn timber assortments. Södra justifies the price [...]
April 17, 2024 Latest Trends

Poland: Protest of the timber industry against logging moratorium

On Tuesday, April 16, a Poland timber industry protest will be held in Białystok related to the situation of [...]
April 17, 2024 Latest Trends

Two Rivers Lumber to build $115 million sawmill in Alabama

Two Rivers Lumber Co. LLC plans to invest $115 million to build a state-of-the-art sawmill in Coosa [...]
April 17, 2024 Latest Trends

World’s largest import markets for OSB in 2023

Mills manufacturing OSB in North America expanded over the past ten years. Since 2012, North American OSB mill capacity increased [...]
April 17, 2024 Latest Trends

Germany: Sharp fall in logging levels; spruce felling continues to drop

A total of 70.6 million cubic meters (m 3 ) of wood was felled in German forests in 2023 . This [...]
April 17, 2024 Latest Trends

Global wood prices are plummeting – softwood lumber is much cheaper on the world market

Global wood prices have fallen by 10% on the world market. This has two reasons. On the one hand, the [...]
April 16, 2024

Finland: Softwood prices expected to rise by 10% this year

The economic outlook for Finland's forest industry will improve slightly this year, Pellervo Taloustutkimus PTT estimates in its Finnish [...]
April 16, 2024 Latest Trends