North America

China: Falling stocks of N. American logs and European spruce logs

Softwood log inventories at the China’s main ocean ports totalled 4.96 million m3 on July 30th, 2022, a [...]

Büttner receives order from West Fraser

The Canada-based West Fraser company has awarded Büttner the contract to replace the existing Bison drum type 5 [...]

ISC 2022 coming up in Copenhagen

Registration is now open for the 70th International Softwood Conference (ISC) taking place this year in Copenhagen on October 12 [...]

Dramatic decline in China’s softwood log imports in H1/2022

China’s log imports in the first half of 2022 totaled 22.38 million cubic meters valued at US$4 [...]

US DoC rules Vietnam circumvented hardwood plywood duties

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

N. American lumber futures bounce back as Canada cuts output

     West Fraser shutters 2.5% of its North America capacity     Lumber prices [...]

U.S. imposed a 35% tariff on Russian wood products

Starting from July 27, the United States imposed a 35% tariff on 570 items of goods imported from Russia, including [...]

Wood-pellet market booms amid Ukraine war

The wood-pellet market is on fire.    War has cut off the supply of compressed-wood [...]

B.C.’s big 3 lumber giants still making good profits

    B.C.’s big three forestry giants had lumber and other wood product sales of $6 [...]

North American softwood lumber prices fall to a new low this year

     Softwood lumber prices continued their downtrend on Wednesday, falling 5% to a new 2022 low of [...]