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N. American Southern Pine prices resilient against market conditions

The Southern Pine Composite Price averaged $445 through the end of June. If that trend holds through the second half [...]
August 11, 2023 Latest Trends

Recovery reported in UK’s softwood imports

May was the best month for UK timber imports in 2023, with volume growth seen across all major product categories [...]
August 9, 2023 Latest Trends

Sale of HS Timber’s Sebes site to Ziegler Group approved

The sale of the HS Timber Productions Sebes SRL site to the German Ziegler Group, announced on 18 April, has [...]
August 9, 2023 Latest Trends

Louisiana-Pacific: Low prices and falling demand continue to impact OSB business

Louisiana-Pacific reported lackluster second-quarter results as lumber markets faced persistent pressure amid a stagnant housing market. Net sales [...]
August 9, 2023 Latest Trends

Research: The EU will not achieve its climate goals without reducing logging

Reducing logging is one of the few measures that will have an immediate impact on the carbon sink in the [...]
August 9, 2023 Latest Trends

Finland’s softwood lumber down by 34% in Jan.-May 2023

In January-May the exports value of Finland's forest industry products totalled EUR 5.30 billion. Of the exports [...]
August 9, 2023 Latest Trends

Uncertainties in Belgium’s wood industry: softwood lumber decline, steady hardwood market

The market for softwood lumber in Belgium has been declining since 2022 due to reduced activity in the building sector [...]
August 8, 2023 Latest Trends

Austria: Wood prices have fallen sharply this year

After price records in the pandemic years 2020/2021, the sales markets for wood in Austria have literally collapsed in [...]
August 8, 2023 Latest Trends

Homag Group reports fall in order intake in H1/2023

Following the very strong previous years, the Homag Group’s order intake declined in the first half of 2023. The [...]
August 8, 2023 Latest Trends

Sinclar to permanently curtail its operations Nechako Lumber Co. in Canada

Sinclar Group Forest Products Ltd. is curtailing its lumber operations at Nechako Lumber Co. in Vanderhoof, Canada, as a result [...]
August 8, 2023 Latest Trends