Asia & Middle East

Hardwood industry in US seeks opportunities in the India

The market for American hardwoods in India is on its way to fulfil its true potential over the course of [...]

Company from Vietnam to supply 300,000 t/yr of wood pellets to Japan

Eastwood Energy Joint Stock Company signed a long-term contract with CellMark, a global supply chain service company, to sell [...]

Falling prices for wood pellets in Vietnam

As demand in South Korea is slowing down, Vietnamese wood pellets prices are falling relative to the rise seen this [...]

EU imported more tropical sawnwood this year

Total EU tropical sawn wood imports for January to May were ahead 13.9% on the 2018 figure at 405 [...]

Sudima to split planned US$200M wood processing complex in Russia’s Far East due to lack of timber

Singapore's Sudima International, which announced earlier that it would build a wood-processing complex in the Primorye Territory worth [...]

Risk of US anti-dumping investigations of Vietnamese wood products exports

In the first 6 months of 2019 the US continued as Vietnam’s top export market for wood products with [...]

FSC to sanction Korean-Indonesian company

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has sanctioned Korean-Indonesian conglomerate Korindo for clearing tropical forests in Indonesia to produce palm [...]

Plywood production in Malaysia threatened by declining log supplies and rising costs

    The media in Sarawak recently highlighted the impact declining log production and rising production costs are [...]

Global wood pellets demand expected to be driven by Asia in the next 10 years

Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat and power production. But [...]

Investment flows in global furniture industry starting to change

The recent globalisation trend, which has been so much a feature of the industry and contributed to the rapid expansion [...]