Asia & Middle East

Vietnamese timber exporters struggle to find new markets

    Contrary to full orders at the beginning of the year, Vietnamese wood and wooden furniture enterprises [...]

Dieffenbacher to supply particleboard plant to Greenlam South Limited in India

    Greenlam South Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenlam Industries Limited headquartered in New Delhi, India [...]

China: Rise in CIF prices for lumber imports

    CIF prices for China’s lumber imports from most suppliers rose in the first half of [...]

India: Current trends in the wood import market

Relatively cheap kiln dried sawn timber from Europe is flooding Mundra port in the range of 180 to 200 EUR [...]

Tight supply woes for Malaysian plywood players

    Tightness in supply has driven the export prices of hardwood plywood manufactured in Sarawak to surge [...]

US DoC rules Vietnam circumvented hardwood plywood duties

    The Department of Commerce has ruled that hardwood plywood assembled and exported from Vietnam used Chinese [...]

Log demand in China remains weak at the moment

China softwood log inventory has remained stable at about 5.0M. Daily port log offtake has dropped to around 60 [...]

Lumber prices in Japan soaring again

    Lumber prices in Japan are soaring in the wake of the Ukraine war. The shortage that [...]

EU tropical wood product imports benefit from curtailment supplies from Russia and Belarus

In the first four months of this year, the value of EU imports of tropical wood and wood furniture totalled [...]