Asia & Middle East

Moody’s: Global wood products sector stays strong in 2018

The likelihood of strong profits from the wood products business, alongside higher prices and growth in paper packaging from increased [...]

Record softwood lumber prices in N. America; Sweden, Finland and Russia lumber export prices drop

    Record high prices for softwood lumber in North America in the 3Q/17 and rising lumber [...]

Indian Greenply predicts growth in India’s MDF and plywood production

Indian Greenply Industries showed optimism about organized players gaining market share in plywood and medium density fibre (MDF) post GST [...]

Overview of the global forest industry in Q3/2017

    The strong softwood fiber global prices, led by the US dollar weakening and the growing demand [...]

Siempelkamp to deliver particleboard plant to Green River Panels in Thailand

Green River Panels invests into a new particleboard plant close to Trang in South Thailand, the center of the Thai [...]

Wood products exports from Vietnam reaches 11.3% rise Q1-Q3 2017

Vietnam's turnover for wood and woodwork during the first nine months of 2017 amounted to $5.55 billion, representing [...]

Andritz delivers biomass boiler to new Japan wood pellet plant

    Austrian woodworking technology company Andritz has received an order from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd [...]

Housing market boom to drive Middle East’s wood market growth

Once that over 25,000 homes have been added to the UAE’s residential market this year, the wood and [...]

Chinese orders to boost Vietnamese wood industry

China’s policy on focusing on their domestic market has prompted foreign importers to place more orders with Vietnamese enterprises [...]

IHC 2017 review: Trends, challenges and new projects in international hardwood trade

On 15 and 16 November 2017 the International Hardwood Conference took place in Venice. Several speakers pointed out recent achievements [...]