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US cuts European softwood lumber supply by nearly 20%

U.S. softwood lumber imports from Europe experienced a noticeable decline in both volume and value during January–November 2024 [...]
January 23, 2025 Latest Trends

Provisional anti-dumping rates on Chinese parquet: up to 49.2%

In May 2024, the European Commission launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of assembled multilayer parquet panels from China [...]
January 23, 2025 Latest Trends

Bjelin Group takes over industrial division of Välinge

Bjelin Group has acquired 100% of the shares in the industrial division of the Swedish Välinge Group (Viken / Sweden [...]
January 23, 2025 Latest Trends

Wood prices remain at a high level in Finland

Wood prices in Finland remained stable at a high level in December, continuing trends observed after the summer. Compared to [...]
January 23, 2025 Latest Trends

German insurance giant enters Finnish forest market

In December, Leppämäki yhteimestä sold its entire 5,833-hectare forest property for 24,642,861 euros. The [...]
January 23, 2025 Latest Trends

Trump declares February 1 as start date for Canadian tariff hikes

Sitting behind the Oval Office desk for the first time in four years, U.S. President Donald Trump wasted no [...]
January 22, 2025 Latest Trends

Wood prices in Estonia in Q4 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the prices for softwood standard logs in Estonia remained stable, while fine logs saw [...]
January 22, 2025 Latest Trends

Sweden builds the world’s largest timber city

Sweden is revolutionizing urban development with Stockholm Wood City, the world's largest construction project made entirely from wood. Located [...]
January 22, 2025 Latest Trends

EUDR: German and Austrian forestry industry call for bureaucracy reduction

At the EU symposium “New EU legislation – new political guidelines?” in Berlin, the German Forestry Council (DFWR) and the Austrian [...]
January 22, 2025 Latest Trends

Sweden: Sawlog prices climbed 30% in 2024

Timber prices in Sweden increased by a significant 24 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year. Sawlogs experienced [...]
January 22, 2025 Latest Trends